Lead Teacher for Literacy

Glenmead Primary School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B44 8UQ

3 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  16 May 2025 at 3pm

• Date listed

  2 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPR/UPS
• Additional allowances:

  TLR £6165

What skills and experience we're looking for

Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils:

• Establish a safe and stimulating environment for pupils, rooted in mutual respect;

• Set goals that stretch and challenge pupils of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions;

• Demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour which are expected of pupils.

Promote good progress and outcomes by pupils:

• Be accountable for pupils’ attainment, progress and outcomes;

• Plan teaching to build on pupils’ capabilities and prior knowledge;

• Guide pupils to reflect on the progress they have made and their emerging needs;

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how pupils learn and how these impact upon teaching;

• Encourage pupils to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study.

Demonstrate good subject knowledge and curriculum knowledge:

• Have a secure knowledge of the relevant subject(s) and curriculum areas, foster and maintain pupils’ interest in the subject and address misunderstandings;

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of developments in the subject and curriculum areas and promote the value of scholarship;

• Demonstrate an understanding or, and take responsibility for, promoting high standards of literacy, articulacy and the correct use of Standard English, whatever the teacher’s specialist subject;

• If teaching early reading, demonstrate a clear understanding of systematic synthetic phonics;

• If teaching early mathematics, demonstrate a clear understanding of appropriate teaching strategies.

Plan and teach well-structured lessons:

• Impact knowledge and develop understanding through effective use of lesson time;

• Promote a love of learning and children’s intellectual curiosity;

• Set homework and plan other out-of-class activities to consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding pupils have acquired;

• Reflect systematically on the effectiveness of lessons and approaches to teaching;

• Contribute to the design and provision of an engaging curriculum within the relevant subject area(s).

Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils:

• Know when and how to differentiate appropriately, using approaches which enable pupils to be taught effectively;

• Have a secure understanding of how a range of factors can inhibit pupils’ ability to learn, and how best to overcome these;

• Demonstrate an awareness on the physical, social and intellectual development of children, and know how to adapt teaching to support pupils’ education at different stages of development;

• Have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils, including those with special educational needs; those of high ability; those with English as an additional language; those with disabilities; and be able to use and evaluate distinctive teaching approaches to engage and support them.

Make accurate and productive use of assessment

• Know and understand how to assess the relevant subject and curriculum areas, including statutory assessment requirements;

• Make use of formative and summative assessment to secure pupils’ progress;

• Use relevant data to monitor progress, set targets and plan subsequent lessons;

• Give pupils regular feedback, both orally and through accurate marking and encourage pupils to respond to the feedback.

Manage behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment

• Have clear rules and routines for behaviour in classrooms, and take responsibility for promoting good and courteous behaviour both in classrooms and around school, in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy;

• Have high expectations of behaviour, and establish a framework for discipline with a wide range of strategies, using praise, consequences and rewards consistently and fairly;

• Manage classes effectively, using approaches which are appropriate to pupils’ needs in order to involve and motivate them;

• Maintain good relationships with pupils, exercise appropriate authority and act decisively when necessary.

Fulfil wider professional responsibilities

• Make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the school;

• Develop effective professional relationships with colleagues, knowing how and when to draw on advice and specialist support;

• Take responsibility for improving teaching through appropriate professional development, responding to advice and feedback from colleagues;

• Communicate effectively with parents with regard to pupils’ achievement and well-being;

• Deploy support staff effectively when applicable.

What the school offers its staff

*Supportive leadership team, governors and the wider community

*Ongong profressional development

*Committed and dedicated staff team with a positive attitude to teaching and learning

*Wonderful children

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to s.wells@glenmead.bham.sch.uk

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Person Spec Lead Teacher Literacy.pdf - 46.2 KB (opens in new tab)

Job Description Subject Lead - Lead Teacher Literacy.pdf - 91.9 KB (opens in new tab)

Literacy Lead Advert Sept 2025.pdf - 96.2 KB (opens in new tab)

About Glenmead Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 290 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Glenmead Primary School website
• Email address: s.wells@glenmead.bham.sch.uk
• Phone number: 0121 464 3173
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/glenmead-primary-school

We are a one form entry maintained primary school, judged to be good by OFSTED, having been inspected in June 2022. The leadership team are hard-working supportive and innovative. They are able to offer in-house professional development alongside wider CPD opportunities. We are an inclusive school and are looking for a teacher who can deonstrate the skill to adapt the curriculum and teacher pupils of all abilities, as well as being resilient enough to support the continued professional development of our team.

Arranging a visit to Glenmead Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email s.wells@glenmead.bham.sch.uk.

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