Primary Teacher
Ark Victoria Academy, Birmingham, West Midlands, B10 0HJ12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
14 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 May 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share)
Contract type
- Fixed term - Until July 2026 initially (potential for this to become a permanent role) - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- Ark MPS (£32,251 - £44,695 FTE)/UPS (£47,477 - £51,051 FTE) per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
- be committed to our mission to provide every pupil a great education and real choices in life, regardless of their background
- be a collaborative team player with a positive attitude
- be passionate about nurturing and developing young learners
What the school offers its staff
We value our staff and provide a comprehensive programme of coaching and professional development for all our staff. We use our values and our virtue pathways to shape the way we work and learn together. Hear what our teachers have to say about working at Ark Victoria Academy: https://arkvictoria.org/jobs/working-for-us
- We take CPD seriously, which is why we offer twice the number of training days as standard
- Our school’s ‘Wellbeing Wednesdays’ are a great hit – get in touch to find out more
- Our staff can take advantage of our on-site fitness suite
- Access to Ark Rewards scheme offering up to £1,000 a year in savings from over 3,000 major retailers
- Interest-free loans of up to £5,000 available for season tickets or a bicycles
- Gym discounts offering up to 40% off your local gym
Further details about the role
Are you an enthusiastic and ambitious primary teacher looking to make a meaningful difference? At Ark Victoria Academy, you'll be joining a school where pupils thrive at every stage of their education (Ofsted 2024). Our vibrant and diverse community is united by strong values, high expectations, and a shared commitment to ensuring success for all our pupils.
About the role:
We are seeking a committed classroom teacher to join our fantastic primary team.
We are looking for passionate individuals with high expectations of themselves and for the pupils they work with. You will share our aspirations for pupils and will inspire, challenge and motivate them to achieve. If you have a positive attitude, the ability to work well as part of a team and a love of reading, this is the opportunity for you! The successful candidate may be working in EYFS.
Our values mean a great deal to us and underpin all that we do, and so it is important that you champion Ark Victoria’s pledge of being Ambitious, Resilient and Kind.
About Ark Victoria Academy
Ark Victoria Academy provides pupils with an excellent education through an ambitious curriculum, personal development and character programme, and an extensive pupil experience and extra-curricular offer. Although we are a large school, we are able to retain a family feel, to nurture our pupils through their schooling and ensure that they flourish and leave us with the skills and qualifications necessary to continue their journey of life-long learning in a university or career of their choice.
Our school values and virtue pathways are crucial to our culture and ethos, they are also part of the way we work and learn together and have been instrumental to us on our school improvement journey. Our values of Ambition, Resilience and Kindness permeate our curriculum, our culture, school and our learning community.
It is for these reasons that Ark Victoria Academy was judged to be significantly improved in all areas from the 2019 ‘Good’ inspection, by Ofsted, in October 2024: ‘This is a school which lives out its values in full for the benefit of children in Nursery to the pupils in Year 11…pupils thrive at all stages of Ark Victoria Academy…as the school knows its pupils very well, they are very well supported to engage with the school’s ambitious curriculum’. The full report (September 2024) can be found here: https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50262921.
Our children make exceptional progress, with results consistently in the top 10% nationally across the primary phase. From the moment they enter our exemplary Early Years setting, our pupils benefit from a carefully sequenced, vocabulary-rich curriculum that equips them to read, think, and speak with confidence. Rigorous teaching, expert support for SEND, and an unwavering focus on high expectations mean every child is challenged and supported to succeed.
We prioritise staff development with a strong emphasis on securing expert subject knowledge from our teachers, strong teaching and leadership and a focus on excellence for our pupils and staff. Through our staff well-being charter and committee, your voice is heard, and your growth is supported.
Our website can provide more information about Ark Victoria Academy.
Commitment to safeguarding
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies.
Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ark Victoria Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 3 to 18
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1559 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ark Victoria Academy website
- Email address
- q.qureshi1@arkvictoria.org
- Phone number
- 0121 393 4459
Ark Victoria Academy is a high performing school across all key stages, providing pupils with a unique journey in their education through the curriculum, personal development programme, student experience offer and the vast range of opportunities that we are able to provide as an all-through school. 82% of all grades awarded at GCSE 2022 are grade 4 and above, against a national figure of 73%. 72% of students gained a grade 4 or above for English and maths. At KS2 77% of pupils gained the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against a national figure of 59%.
Whilst being a large school, we are able to retain a family feel, to nurture our pupils through their schooling and ensure that they leave us with the skills and qualifications necessary to continue their journey of life-long learning in a university or career of their choice.
It's for this reason that Ark Victoria Academy was judged ‘Good’ by Ofsted in May 2019, with a strong emphasis on expert subject knowledge from our teachers, strong teaching and leadership and a focus on excellence for our students and staff.
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