Teacher of Literacy for Life - Part time Fixed Term

Shireland CBSO Academy, West Bromwich, B70 8SZ

11 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  12 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  1 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share): 3 days a week, Tuesday - Thursday
• Contract type: Fixed term - until 31st August 2026
• Pay scale: TMS / UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Academy

This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to be part of a team delivering our KS3 competency-based curriculum at a brand-new academy, with the potential to shape your career with us as the academy grows.

Shireland CBSO Academy is an exciting new school which opened to Year 7 in September 2023 and is the first state school in the country to be established 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. The Academy is for all students who have a passion or talent for music – they do not necessarily need to already play an instrument.

Literacy for Life

Literacy for Life is a thematic curriculum taught for 15 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. The role of a form tutor is crucial to supporting our pastoral processes as a school.

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
• Be committed to enhancing their subject knowledge across the National Curriculum
• Role model a commitment to excellence
• Be confident in using pedagogies for thematic/project-based learning
• Want to collaborate as part of a team
• Be passionate about their pastoral and academic responsibility
• Be flexible and adaptable, rising to the challenge of growing 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
• 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.

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

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.

Upload additional documents

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JOB DESCRIPTION - Teacher of L4L.pdf - 165 KB (opens in new tab)

Person Specification - Teacher of Literacy for Life.pdf - 159 KB (opens in new tab)

About Shireland CBSO Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 306 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Shireland CBSO Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@shirelandcat.net
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/shireland-cbso-academy

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