Teacher of Literacy of Life - Maternity Cover
Shireland Biomedical UTC
Sandwell
- £31,650 - £49,084 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- TMS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- June 2025
- Apply by:
- 6 April 2025
Job overview
POST: Teacher of Literacy for Life Year 7- Maternity Cover - Geography Specialist preferable.
LOCATION: Shireland Biomedical UTC
SALARY: TMS/UPS
REQUIRED FOR: June 2025
We are excited and proud to be the first UTC in the UK to specialise in health care and health science. Based in central West Bromwich we aim to provide an outstanding provision for the children we serve. We opened our doors to the first ever year 7 cohort in September 2022 and will continue to do so until we are full. From September 2025 we will have years 7,8, 9, 10,12 and 13. This is an amazing opportunity to join a growing school and be able to develop your skills as we grow.
As part of the Literacy for Life team you would be teaching Year 7 in our thematic curriculum.
We are looking for passionate and creative teachers who work well within a team and who will help us on our journey to provide an exceptional educational provision for our pupils and families.
We can offer:
- Opportunities across our MAT to enhance skills and experience
- Excellent career and professional development opportunities
- A focus on staff wellbeing
- State of the art facilities
- Supportive working environment and team ethos
- Friendly and enthusiastic students.
Candidates should:
- Have experience of teaching across the key stages. Applications from Upper Key Stage 2 teachers are welcome
- Be a consistently good/outstanding teacher
- Be an exceptional classroom practitioner with high expectations of both learning and behaviour
- Demonstrate an ability to inspire, motivate and enthuse pupils
- Be committed to raising standards for all and share the same drive to constantly learn and improve
- Show willingness to lead initiatives and show evidence of impact.
- Demonstrate a passion to make a difference to others
- Be proficient with the use of technology for learning and have a willingness to innovate.
We pride ourselves on being an employer where all staff can thrive. We believe that supporting our staff both personally and professionally allows them to give their very best to our students. Our aim is to foster a working culture that recognises and reflects the importance of good mental health and wellbeing and provides effective support when colleagues need it.
Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects its entire staff to share this commitment. All post-holders will be required to have an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), including a Children’s Barred List check for post carrying out a regulated activity.
Closing Date: Sunday 6th April 2025
For further information and the application form please go to:
https://careers.shirelandcat.net/Department/Teaching
To arrange a visit to the school please contact Sam Banks sbanks@sbu.shirelandcat.net
Please note we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date.
Attached documents
About Shireland Biomedical UTC
- Shireland Biomedical UTC
- 350 High Street, West Bromwich
- West Midlands
- B70 8DJ
- United Kingdom
We are excited and proud to have been the first UTC in the UK with healthcare and health sciences as its specialism, offering learning and career opportunities like no other.
By combining academic study with real-life work projects, personal development activities, and career opportunities our young people will become well-rounded work-ready individuals. They will benefit from a combination of qualified national curriculum teaching and putting their learning into practice in exciting, work-focused projects that are delivered in partnership with employer professionals.
We’re able to deliver this ‘tomorrow’s education today’ concept through robust partnerships with major health, education and public sector organisations. This approach supports the development of academic, practical and life skills in our young people, equipping them to meet the demands from employers for good qualifications, transferable skills and a professional attitude to work – whatever career path they eventually choose.
We believe that the UTC can provide a set of opportunities and qualifications that will provide an excellent foundation for students to enter the health and care professions.
Principal
Mr Gulfam Shahzad
Values and vision
We believe that every person who passes through our doors deserves the very best that we can offer. We understand that each Academy is unique, but our emphasis and expectations will remain the same.
Nothing less than Outstanding is acceptable.
We hope that everyone will have participated in a “Whole Education” that prepares them both personally and professionally and that they are well-placed for a successful and happy life. Everyone who works with and for the Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust does so because they believe in children and want their futures to be happy and successful.
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