Teacher of Business

Teaching Vacancies; Smethwick; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Teaching Vacancies is seeking a passionate teacher with an Honours degree in a relevant secondary subject. The role emphasizes delivering high-quality teaching, pastoral care, and personal development as a form tutor. A commitment to ambitious education for all students is essential.

The successful candidate will foster outstanding classroom practice, robust safeguarding knowledge, and contribute to a positive staff culture with professionalism and warmth.

Qualifications

• Honours degree in a secondary subject.
• Commitment to ambitious education for all students.
• Pastoral care and personal development as a form tutor.
• Passion for your subject and teaching.
• Proactive contribution to staff culture with professionalism.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with students and staff.
• Knowledge of safeguarding and child protection, including DSL.
• Excellent classroom practice, planning, and checking for understanding.

Skills

Honours degree

Pastoral care

Motivate students

Communication skills

Safeguarding knowledge

ICT skills

Classroom practice

Data management

Team collaboration

Education

Honours degree

Tools

SIMS

Data systems

ICT tools

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Good Honours degree in a relevant Secondary subject
• A commitment to ambitious education for all students, regardless of their background or starting point
• A readiness to provide world-class pastoral care and personal development as a form tutor
• A passion for your subject and for teaching
• A belief that none of us are the finished article, and that professional life is about ongoing learning, discussion, challenge, feedback, and continuous improvement
• A willingness to proactively contribute to staff culture through professionalism, discussion, openness, and warmth
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with students, colleagues, and stakeholders
• Ability to motivate and inspire students
• Knowledge of and experience in safeguarding and child protection, including the role of the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)
• Evidence of dealing effectively with classroom day-to-day issues
• Excellent classroom practice and planning, including explanation, checking for understanding, student practice, and habits of discussion
• Proficient use of information from lessons, classwork, and formal assessment to inform teaching and future planning
• High standards of behaviour and the application of a "warm‑strict" approach
• Evidence of teaching in more than one school
• Knowledge and use of SIMS and/or other data management systems to monitor students' behaviour, attitudes, and well‑being
• Outstanding ICT skills

What the school offers its staff

Ambition

At Holly Lodge we believe that a truly excellent education should be the entitlement of every single young person. This means we pursue an ambitious, knowledge-rich curriculum, made accessible and memorable for all. We believe that our curriculum and teaching should equip students to pursue high‑flying further study and careers on their chosen paths, and to join “the great conversations of humankind.”

As Aristotle said, “Excellence is a habit.” Thus, hard work from students and staff alike sits at the heart of our ambition. We are ambitious not only for our students’ academic success but also for their personal development, soft skills and wider cultural capital. To this end we model and expect excellent conduct from all our students: “We are becoming the best versions of ourselves.”

Ambitions such as these do not come easily. When we are pushing ourselves, we should expect to feel challenged; we should embrace the obstacles we face as opportunities to grow and learn. Resilience is therefore the final component of our Holly Lodge Ambition. “If it was easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing.”

An education at Holly Lodge represents many, many fantastic opportunities, from the learning itself, to extra-curricular clubs, to trips, to life‑long friendships made. We see opportunity as a value in itself: it is a way to see the world, to notice, seize, and make the most of the opportunities we are so fortunate to have.

Crucial to our opportunity outlook is appreciation. It is vital that we take time each day to notice all the wonderful things we are lucky to have – “even in the darkness there is light.”

At Holly Lodge, we make the most of our opportunities by valuing efficiency. We spend our time on the things that make a difference, and we don’t waste time on things that don’t work. “Every second counts:” whether it is for learning, rest or leisure.

Openness is key to opportunity: openness in our minds and outlooks, a willingness to try new things and consider other viewpoints, and to receive and act on feedback that helps us to get better every day.

Community

Communities are valuable because together we are stronger. At Holly Lodge we value our school community and the wider community we serve as a school.

Community is based on respect: tolerance, trust and consideration. It is also based on kindness: we do things to help others because it is the right thing to do.

Finally, we take responsibility: we are independent thinkers and we have the power to make the world a better place – “it is up to us to do so, in our actions every day.”

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.