Teacher of L4L
Shireland CBSO Academy, West Bromwich, B70 8SZDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 October 2026 at 3pm
Date listed
21 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
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Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- English, Humanities, Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- TMS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
About the Academy
This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to be part of a team delivering our Key Stage 3 competency-based curriculum at a brand-new academy, with the potential to shape your career with us as the academy grows. This role is suitable for both primary- and secondary-trained colleagues.
Shireland CBSO Academy is an exciting new school that opened to Year 7 in September 2023 and is the first state school in the country to be established in partnership with a professional orchestra. Based in Providence Place, West Bromwich, the Academy works in partnership with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) and serves all of Sandwell and the wider West Midlands. In 2024-25, we will have our first Year 8 cohort and we are also looking to grow our Sixth Form.
Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust is a recognised leader in education and was founded by three-times Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ Shireland Collegiate Academy: Our students will study a full, broad and balanced curriculum, seen through the lens of music. In Year 7, we follow the ‘Literacy for Life’ model developed by our Trust over the last 15 years: Students learn via a thematic approach to their studies, spending 17 hours a week with the same teacher, enabling them to smoothly transition from primary to secondary school. Students continue to study Literacy for Life for 13 hours in Year 8 and 5 hours in Year 9. Each teacher is focused on the students in their Literacy for Life class, not just from an academic perspective but also getting to know the students and their families and forming a partnership which will really help students to make progress.
Literacy for Life
Literacy for Life is a thematic curriculum taught for 17 hours each week in Year 7, 13 hours in Year 8 and 5 hours in Year 9. Each teacher is focused on the students in their Literacy for Life class, not just from an academic perspective but also getting to know the students and their families and forming a partnership which will really help students to make progress.
Our Year 7 programme will be accommodated in a bespoke technologically rich, new build environment.
We are seeking inspirational teachers from either secondary or Upper Key Stage 2.
Applicants will:
- Be passionate about improving the lives of students they serve
- Be confident in teaching across subjects
- Role model a commitment to excellence
- Be confident in using pedagogies for thematic/project-based learning
- Want to collaborate as part of a team
- Believe they have both a pastoral and academic responsibility
- Be flexible and adaptable, rising to the challenge of creating a new Academy
- Have high standards for students and themselves.
What the school offers its staff
In return we will offer:
- Excellent career development opportunities and access to a comprehensive programme of CPD
- An extensive support programme for ECTs
- An ICT-rich environment which allows staff to be innovative in harnessing technology for learning
- The opportunity to be involved in the opening of a new Academy
- Employee Health and Wellbeing Package
The Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
For further information or an application form please visit:
https://careers.shirelandcat.net/Department/Teaching
Further information about the job
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.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About Shireland CBSO Academy
- Organisation type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 457 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- recruitment@shirelandcat.net
- Phone number
- 01212811602
Arranging a visit to Shireland CBSO Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@shirelandcat.net.
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