Start date: 1 September 2025 Barford Primary School Barford Road Birmingham B16 0EF Telephone number: 0121 464 3765 Contact email: klilly@barfordprimary.co.uk Contract type: Permanent Governors at Barford Primary School would like to appoint an assistant headteacher on a permanent basis. We would like our assistant headteacher to be part of our ‘Barford family’ and contribute to our journey to support rising standards in our school. Our children would like their assistant headteacher to display our Barford values and uphold our vision and ethos- helping to make our school the best it can possibly be! Happy Hearts, healthy minds, exhilarating experiences – inspires success! The role includes: an exemplary teacher who is highly experienced, enthusiastic, and motivated to share in the leadership and management of our school be a fundamental part of the school senior management team and contribute to driving our school forward by upholding our vision and values in this challenging, rewarding and strategic role at Barford Primary School candidates must have relevant management experience in KS1 and/or in Early Years making a distinctive contribution to the raising of pupil standards, which will include coaching and mentoring colleagues to ensure practice in the phase is excellent. Visits to the school are welcome, please contact our school business manager, Kaylee Lilly to arrange a suitable date - kwhorrie@barfordprimary.co.uk. Interviews: Thursday 22 May 2025 For further information about the school access our website. How to apply Please download Application Pack. A completed application form and recruitment monitoring form should be returned to Kaylee Lilly via email, klilly@barfordprimary.co.uk. This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an 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. Rehabilitation of offenders: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which 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. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.