Awesome Class Teachers Needed! Beaufort Special School, Stechford Road, Birmingham, B34 6BJ Start date: April 2026 or sooner Contract type: Full time, Permanent If you are driven to Enrich Lives and Unlock Potential, we need YOU! ARE YOU: ✓ An excellent practitioner keen to work in a supportive and principle based school? ✓ Driven by a strong moral purpose to enable children with SEND to achieve against the odds? ✓ Able to support children to achieve their very best? ✓ Passionate about creativity and fun? ✓ Warm in character, easy to work with and committed to teamwork, recognising that more can be achieved together than is possible as individuals? ✓ Unafraid of hard work? ✓ Calm and able to handle pressure and setbacks? ✓ Keen to be challenged to become the best teacher that you can be? ✓ Able to be pushed at an accelerated rate of development, and reflective and proactive enough to make it happen? ✓ Determined to succeed against the odds, with a ‘Find a way or make one!’ attitude? If so, you would love to work at Beaufort Special School! This is not just another job. This is a chance to be part of something exciting and very worthwhile. Beaufort school is on a journey and we are looking for resilient and aspirational teachers of children with SEND to be part of this. We feel sure this opportunity will open doors both professionally and personally to anyone who joins our fantastic team. We can offer you: • The chance to work as part of a team, with the best possible opportunities to share ideas, planning, assessment etc. • Opportunities to work alongside outstanding teachers and local settings, to observe and share practice on a regular basis, developing pedagogy through reflectivity; • The chance to use / develop personal curriculum strengths; • An school with a clear plan for the professional development of its staff; • A dynamic, creative staff, dedicated to providing amazing educational experiences; Our school is projecting rapid progress and along with this will come accelerated learning for children and staff alike. We would like to hear from great teachers, with a genuine commitment to improving the life chances of the children they teach. Please get in touch even if you're just a tiny bit interested - it really is as exciting as it sounds! This position is not suitable for ECT’s. To request an application pack, and to arrange an informal discussion about our school and the role, please contact our school office via email: enquiry@beaufort.bham.sch.uk or telephone: 0121 675 8500 There will be 2 rounds of applications for this post. The deadline for submission of applications for the first round is 9.00am on Friday 13th February 2026 and interviews will be scheduled for the week beginning Monday 16th February 2026. The deadline the submission of applications for the second round is 9.00am on Friday 13th March 2026 and interviews will be scheduled for the week beginning Monday 23rd March 2026. Please be advised that this vacancy may attract a substantial number of applications. Consequently, the recruitment process may close prior to the stated deadline, and only candidates selected for shortlist will be contacted. We appreciate your interest in this position and your understanding of this matter. Interested candidates should complete the BCC application form (separate attachment) and it should be returned via email to: recruitment@beaufort.bham.sch.uk This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. This means that, when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore, the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.