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‘Pupils and staff share positive and respectful relationships. Pupils value the support staff give them. This motivates pupils to achieve well, and they do.

Harborne Academy continues to be a good school’. – Ofsted 2022

We believe that our staff are crucial to the success of Harborne Academy and are the people who will have the most impact on our success. By looking after our staff, we will maximise the life chances and opportunities for our students.

Ensuring our staff are supported and given the opportunities to develop is our priority.

Our staff are dedicated, passionate professionals who go above and beyond to ensure that students are safe, happy, learning and progressing. Staff well-being is paramount, and we strive for that work-life balance for all staff, whatever their role within the academy.

At the academy we have high expectations. We expect staff to challenge students and themselves. We set high standards and aim to display these in all that we do.

We are a great school to work in for a number of reasons:

  • Fantastic CPD with extensive professional development opportunities
  • A vibrant and exciting academy which is culturally and ethnically diverse.
  • Members of the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter (a declaration of support for, and a set of commitments, to the wellbeing and mental health of everyone working in education)
  • 1 paid absence staff day per academic year (to be used for weddings etc.)
  • 24 hours access to our Employee Assistance Programme that offer services like: virtual GP, stress coaching, counselling, physiotherapy sessions and many more
  • Flexible working on offer (period 1 or period 5 PPA for flexibility). Bespoke flexibility for support staff available.
  • Wellbeing comittee with a wellbeing fund available
  • Employee star of the month 

If you share our ambition to provide an exceptional experience for every child in the academy, please click below to see the current opportunities we have available:

We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive sufficient applications for roles. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Harborne Academy is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust, and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, which may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, suitable references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.  

As part of our recruitment checks, an online search will be undertaken on all shortlisted candidates. This search does not form part of the shortlisting process, and you will have the opportunity to discuss any issues of concern that may arise from this search at the interview.

@@HarborneAcademy12:08 PM - 6th November, 2025 Yesterday, our students enjoyed a hands on experience working with professional jewellers from Goldsmiths Institute. They produced some creative outcomes, fingers crossed for some potential jewellers in the future! pic.twitter.com/cdvXIoePns
@@HarborneAcademy12:00 PM - 6th November, 2025 In celebration of Arts Week, students from Years 7 to 11 enjoyed a visit to Splash Art Republic, they created some fantastic work! pic.twitter.com/X9plo0bgYL
@@HarborneAcademy10:21 AM - 6th November, 2025 Mrs Begum and the students engaged in embroidery enrichment yesterday, we can’t wait to see some of the finished creations. pic.twitter.com/I3LSjPJkOZ
@@HarborneAcademy10:19 AM - 6th November, 2025 Check out the wonderful work our students created at the Ottoman Art workshop! pic.twitter.com/xMSTpASuy8
@@HarborneAcademy01:12 PM - 5th November, 2025 Today we welcomed the artist, Hasret Brown, to the academy. Hasret delivered a wonderful Ottoman Art workshop to students from Year 7-9. We can’t wait to see the outcomes. pic.twitter.com/ThhJpJaIFl
@@HarborneAcademy10:05 AM - 5th November, 2025 As Arts Week continues this week, we would like to thank Caricature Artist, Pen Jones, for these fantastic drawings of our students! pic.twitter.com/E7GBux5x8z
@@HarborneAcademy08:05 AM - 4th November, 2025 Our Year 7’s have loved reading Tom Palmer’s books this year. We were privileged to receive a visit from Tom who delivered a fantastic assembly and writing workshop yesterday. pic.twitter.com/4GfuydYGm0
@@HarborneAcademy03:18 PM - 24th October, 2025 To find out what’s been happening at the academy this week, please see the link to the newsletter below. Have a lovely half term break. Read more
@@HarborneAcademy01:05 PM - 24th October, 2025 Year 7 students Ummeyah and Elhana have created some wonderful Remembrance artwork, incredible! pic.twitter.com/6z2SXHLZCj
@@HarborneAcademy10:30 AM - 24th October, 2025 Students were invited to participate in a workshop run by NYT (National Youth Theatre) Ignite, aligned with Netflix, where they could learn more about roles within film and television. Students were also tasked to create an idea for a potential film/tv series! pic.twitter.com/lzJMkxdKjq
@@HarborneAcademy02:59 PM - 23rd October, 2025 Last week, our Year 9 Forward Thinking cohort enjoyed an introduction to university life with a subject taster day at the University of Birmingham. Well done to everyone for getting involved. pic.twitter.com/snhNKizZ2m
@@HarborneAcademy12:15 PM - 23rd October, 2025 Well done to our wonderful Year 7 students Madison, Iris, Emily and Advika they have created these brilliant WW1 propaganda posters - great effort! pic.twitter.com/lu8NrBSASH
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