Teacher of Business Studies

Lift Greenwood, Birmingham, West Midlands, B35 7NL

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2027

• Closing date

  20 November 2026 at 3:18pm

• Date listed

  6 November 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
  • Suitable for early career teachers (710)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £20441.40 - £31701.00 per annum

Teacher of Business Studies job summary

An excellent education for every child, in every classroom, every day.

Lift Greenwood is seeking an enthusiastic, dedicated GCSE Business Studies teacher to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate teacher to inspire students, develop their understanding of the business world, and equip them with the knowledge, confidence, and skills they need to succeed in an increasingly competitive, evolving economy.

At Lift Greenwood, we believe Business Studies plays an important role in preparing students for their future. Through an engaging, ambitious curriculum, students develop an understanding of how businesses operate, make decisions, and respond to the challenges and opportunities of the modern world. Our approach encourages students to think critically, analyse information, solve problems and apply their learning to real-world business scenarios. We aim to develop confident, independent learners who understand the importance of enterprise, innovation, financial awareness and effective decision-making.

About Lift Greenwood

Lift Greenwood is a forward-thinking secondary school serving the diverse community of Castle Vale in Birmingham. As part of Lift Schools, an ambitious multi-academy trust of 62 schools, staff benefit from excellent professional development, strong support networks and opportunities for career progression.

Led by Principal Daniel Opoku, Lift Greenwood has a clear, ambitious vision to become one of the country's highest-performing schools by 2030.

The school is committed to creating a calm, purposeful and inclusive learning environment where students are encouraged to achieve their full potential. Through The Greenwood Way, the school places a strong emphasis on high-quality teaching, consistent routines, positive relationships and high expectations.

This is an exciting time to join Lift Greenwood and contribute to its ongoing improvement journey, helping shape young people's aspirations and future opportunities.

About the Role

The successful candidate will deliver engaging and inclusive Business Studies lessons that develop students' understanding of business principles, commercial awareness, enterprise and the wider economic environment.

You will inspire students to explore how businesses are established, managed and developed, while encouraging them to evaluate business decisions and understand the impact of economic, social and technological changes.

Through carefully planned lessons, you will support students in developing their analytical, evaluative and problem-solving skills, enabling them to apply their knowledge confidently to real-world business situations.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a genuine passion for Business Studies and inspiring young people.
• Can deliver engaging, challenging and inclusive lessons that motivate students of all abilities.
• Has high expectations for student achievement, progress and behaviour.
• Can develop students' commercial awareness, analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Creates a positive, supportive classroom environment where students feel confident contributing and succeeding.
• Is committed to delivering high-quality teaching and learning.
• Can use assessment effectively to identify gaps in knowledge and support student progress.
• Encourages students to develop confidence, independence and curiosity about the business world.
• Is enthusiastic about contributing to the school's wider life and continued development.

You will be joining a supportive and ambitious school community committed to delivering excellent education and ensuring every student has the opportunity to achieve their full potential.

What You'll Need to Succeed

You will have experience delivering an engaging and well-structured Business Studies curriculum, with the ability to make complex business concepts accessible and relevant to students.

You will be confident in planning and delivering high-quality lessons, assessing student progress effectively and providing constructive feedback that supports achievement and raises standards.

You will demonstrate strong subject knowledge, excellent classroom management skills and a commitment to creating a positive, inclusive learning environment where all students feel supported and challenged.

Above all, you will share our commitment to providing an excellent education for every child and be passionate about helping students develop the knowledge, skills and aspirations needed for their future.

Who is Lift Schools?

Lift Schools is made up of 62 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 35,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives - and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.

How we support you

We want you to feel supported, valued and able to grow throughout your career with Lift Schools. From high-quality professional development and career progression to wellbeing support and opportunities to connect and collaborate across our network, we invest in you so you can do your best work.

Discover how we'll support you to thrive, develop and grow your career in the way that's right for you: How we support you

This is a part-time position (0.6 FTE), working three days per week (19.5 hours), on a fixed-term contract until 31 August 2027, with a start date in January 2027.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

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.

Commitment to safeguarding

Lift Schools is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Lift Greenwood

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 935 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Lift Greenwood website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/greenwood-academy

Lift Greenwood is a vibrant, successful 11-18 school situated in the heart of Castle Vale. We moved into our £20 million new build in September 2017 with world class facilities. Coupled with this is a highly professional staff and students who are keen to learn. As a result of being oversubscribed, we are embarking on the next wave of recruitment for the highest calibre of staff who can help us to grow our school community.

So why work at Lift Greenwood?

1. Teaching and Learning

Quality first teaching is at the core of everything we do. To support this, our evidence-based Teaching and Learning vision incorporates Barack Rosenshine’s Principles of Direct Instruction. Literacy is a significant part of every lesson. Standard written and Spoken English is insisted upon and modelled by all teachers to ensure our students can achieve their potential.

Most importantly, we do not grade observations at Lift Greenwood, we believe that regular, developmental feedback creates a strong, supportive and vibrant culture.

2. Expectations

We have a firm and fair approach to behaviour, systematically supported by senior staff; all pupil detentions are centralised and run by senior staff every day. Teachers are therefore able to prioritise the planning and teaching of their subject.

3. Work-life balance

We are committed to reducing teacher workload and making sure that everything we do has a positive impact on pupil learning. This means we have a slimmed-down marking policy, a centralised knowledge focused homework policy, no parents evenings and a minimal assessment, reporting and data entry cycle.

Ofsted

We are judged to be a 'Good' school and we were last inspected in October 2021.

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