Current vacancies
Teacher
Class Teacher: Lower KS2
Salary Range: MPR/UPS/ECT’s Welcome to apply
Contract Type: Permanent
Tel: 0121 675 9740
Email: vacancy@feathstn.bham.sch.uk
Start Date: September 2025
Featherstone Primary School is a welcoming, supportive and inclusive two-form entry primary school, with a strong reputation in the local area. We are looking for a teacher to join our amazing staff who are dedicated to making a real difference to the lives of our pupils. You would be part of a successful team who work collaboratively, share ideas and support each other in order to achieve the very best outcomes. We would love to hear from applicants who are experienced teachers and are interested in continuing their journey in Lower KS2 (Year 4).
The successful candidate will be:
- Ambitious, creative and passionate in wanting to make a difference in children’s lives
- Able to inspire, challenge and motivate all children to achieve
- Flexible and committed to developing their expertise as a teacher
- Have good knowledge of Key Stage 2 expectations
We can offer the successful candidate:
- An inclusive school with imaginative children who are keen to learn and grow,
- An incredibly warm, friendly, supportive team that works together to enable our pupils to flourish within school and beyond
- A collaborative working environment, where staff are encouraged to share their passions and skills
- Tailored and supportive career professional development
- A well-resourced school with fantastic indoor and outdoor facilities.
- A whole school commitment to pupils and staff’s well-being and mental health
Visits prior to applying are recommended and warmly welcomed.
Dates for informal visits can be arranged with the office by emailing vacancies@feathstn.bham.sch.uk . Please provide a contact number, dates and times for when you are available.
Closing date for application Friday 9th May 2025 at 5.00pm
Please return completed application forms to vacancies@feathstn.bham.sch.uk
Teaching assistant
Teaching Assistant Level 3
Salary Range: Grade 3 - £26,409 - £32,654 FTE
Actual Salary Range: £21,285 - £26,319.12
Hours per week: 33.5 hour per week
Start Date: ASAP
Featherstone Primary School is a friendly, welcoming and vibrant school, where the children thrive. We are looking for a Teaching Assistant to join our dedicated and hardworking team. We are proud of our school and continue to make strides so that our ‘Good’ OfSTED with ‘Outstanding’ elements are built upon.
The skills and experience we are looking for:
- Ambitious, imaginative, able to inspire, challenge and motivate all children.
- Flexible, creative and committed to developing their expertise as a Teaching Assistant.
- Well organised with high expectations of achievement and behaviour.
- Able to work effectively as part of a team and on their own initiative
- A recognised Level 3 Teaching Assistant Qualification.
We can offer the successful candidate:
- An inclusive school with imaginative children who are keen to learn and grow,
- An incredibly warm, friendly, supportive team that works together to enable our pupils to flourish within school and beyond
- A collaborative working environment, where staff are encouraged to share their passions and skills
- Tailored and supportive career professional development
- A well-resourced school with fantastic indoor and outdoor facilities.
- A whole school commitment to pupils and staff’s well-being and mental health
Dates for informal visits can be arranged with the office by emailing vacancies@feathstn.bham.sch.uk and providing a contact number, dates and times for when you are available.
Closing date for application Friday 9th May 2025 at 5.00pm
Please return completed application forms to vacancies@feathstn.bham.sch.uk
Cleaner
Cleaner – Part time
Hourly Rate: £12.42 - £12.62
Salary FTE: £23,656 - £24,027 (Actual Salary: £7114.45 - £7226.03)
Hours: Monday to Friday 3.30pm-6.00pm (12.5 hours per week)
Term- time only (39 weeks per year)
We are looking to appoint a cleaner to join our dedicated site team, who work together to
maintain a clean, healthy and safe environment for our children, staff and visitors. Previous
experience of working as a cleaner in a school or education setting would be desirable but not
essential as training will be provided. The post is for 12.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday,
working hours 3.30pm to 6.00pm term time only (39 weeks per year).
Duties will include:
• Carrying out regular and one-off cleaning tasks as directed by the Site Manager or
Supervisor
• Working safely using correct warning signs, products and PPE
• Reporting health and safety issues to the Site Manager or Supervisor
We are looking for someone who is:
• Reliable, punctual, with good attendance
• A hard working team player
• Able to observe safe working practices in carrying out the required duties
• Able to carry out mandatory online Safeguarding and Health & Safety training
We can offer the successful candidate:
• An incredibly warm, friendly, supportive team and working environment,
• Generous employer pension scheme,
• An employee assistant programme providing access to confidential support,
counselling and wellbeing resources.
Closing Date: 16h May 2025 at 16:00
Cleaner Recruitment Monitoring Form
Completed application forms should be returned to: vacancies@feathstn.bham.sch.uk
Please note Curriculum Vitae’s (CV’s) will not be accepted.
Please refer to the guidance notes when completing the application form. All sections
relevant to you must be completed. The most common cause for an application form to be
rejected are the applicant not completing the following sections correctly:
Section 8: Please ensure full employment history, from the end date of your secondary
education, is provided. Dates and reason for any gaps must be explained.
Section 11: Details of two referees must include a work email address. Written references will
not be accepted from relatives or people writing solely in the capacity of friends.
Section 12: This section must be completed, you need to describe how your experience and
skills fit the essential criteria for the role as specified in the Person Specification.
Safeguarding Statement
Featherstone Primary 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; 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 be carried out as part of due-diligence on all shortlisted candidates.
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.
Applicants who have lived or worked outside the UK will be required to provide a certificate of good conduct from the country in which they worked or lived. Further checks will be made abroad if school deem appropriate. Teachers may need to provide proof of their past conduct as a teacher, issued by the professional regulating authority in the country in which they worked.
Please read our Safeguarding Policy and policy relating to recruitment of ex-offenders policy in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
