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All our staff members are vital to maintaining our high academic standards, distinctive pastoral care and wealth of co-curricular opportunities. We’re often looking out for great people – teachers, of course, but also admin, finance and IT staff, as well as technicians and cleaners.
Any current vacancies will be listed below.
Staff benefits
As part of our friendly team, in a wonderful working environment, you’ll also benefit from:
- Competitive Salary
- Access to a staff Pension Scheme with highly attractive employer contribution rates
- Regular professional development opportunities
- Outstanding facilities and resources
- Free refreshments and lunches when the school is operational provided by our excellent Catering team
- Generous fee remission for the daughters of staff who might wish to attend EHS
- Free access to the Botanical Gardens for yourself and your family
- Free on-site parking
- Free use of the school’s gym and swimming pool at agreed times
- Access to our onsite counsellor and an employee support package
- Friendly and supportive staff who work together and share resources and ideas
Teaching Roles
No current vacancies
Support Staff Roles
Prep Secretary - closing date noon on Thursday 22nd May - to start mid-June
As Prep Secretary you will be jointly responsible for a range of tasks including reception cover, reprographics, and support to the Prep Staff (in particular the Head of Prep). You will act as a first point of contact for visitors, parents, staff, students and telephone callers in a professional and courteous manner.
Experience of working in a school or similar busy front-facing environment would be very beneficial, and experience of working as PA would also be helpful. Sound working knowledge of Microsoft applications is essential and an experience of using MIS or other databases is very desirable.
Excellent administrative skills and written English are essential. You must have a polite, friendly disposition and understand the importance of both confidentiality and safeguarding.
This is a permanent, part-time, term-time only position (29 hours per week). A full job description and person specification can be found in the Information Pack.
Successful candidates will be invited to a formal interview (Thursday 29th May) and will be asked to complete an administrative task.
Applications for this position should be addressed to Mrs Nina Hobson, Head of Prep, and should include a completed school application form and a covering letter of not more than 2 pages summarising your suitability for the role as outlined in the information pack. Please submit these to the HR & Compliance Officer, Ms Corinna Gregory: recruitment@edgbastonhigh.co.uk.
Interested in training to be a teacher?
EHS is a member of the King Edward’s Consortium (KEC), a group of 23 schools in the Birmingham and Solihull areas who work together to train graduate secondary-school teachers. The group is the number-one school-centred initial teacher training (SCITT) provider in the country (The Good Teacher Training Guide, 2017).
If you become a KEC trainee, you’ll be in school from day one, and treated as a member of staff. As well as teaching your subject, you’ll be a form tutor and contribute to wider school life. For five weeks at the start of the spring term, you’ll also have a second, shorter placement in a contrasting school. Find out more. KEC website
Edgbaston High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants for positions here must be willing to undergo child-protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Criminal Records Bureau.
To comply with KCSIE Edgbaston High School for Girls is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and Disclosure and Barring Services.
All posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
