Services For Education is a lifelong learning charity based in the heart of Birmingham.
We provide expert training and continued professional development within educational and corporate settings across the UK. We are also one of the largest providers of music provision in the country, teaching music to over 38,000 children per week.
If you are looking for work in a challenging, fast-paced and friendly environment committed to improving the lives of children and young people, check out our vacancies below or feel free to send a speculative application to: recruitment@servicesforeducation.co.uk
Latest vacancies
We have no vacancies live at the moment, but feel free to drop us an speculative application via email or letter if you can’t find what you’re looking for right now.
APPLICATIONS:
We thank you for your application and appreciate the time and effort involved. Due to the large number of applications we receive we are unfortunately not always able to respond to everyone. If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application to be unsuccessful on this occasion.
POST APPLICATIONS TO:
Services For Education Unit 3 Holt Court
Holt Street
Birmingham Science Park Aston
Birmingham
B7 4AX
T: +44 (0)121 366 9950
EMAIL APPLICATIONS:
Please send your CV and a covering letter stating clearly which role(s) you are interested in applying for to:
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We are committed to the principle of diversity and equality of opportunity in employment.
From 6 April 2017, employers in Great Britain with more than 250 staff are required by law to publish their gender pay gap information, covering pay and bonuses. View our last three years Gender Pay Reports by clicking on the links below:
Under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, we are required to check that anyone taking up employment with us has the legal right to work in the UK.
All shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide documentary proof of this during the interview process and we will be required to take a copy of the successful candidates’ documents before they commence working with us.
Please note, if you are a non-EU citizen and you don’t have the relevant visa to be able to work in the UK, we would only be able to apply for a Certificate of Sponsorship from the UK Border Agency if we can show we have met the Resident Labour Market Test and you are able to meet the required points needed under the new points-based system.
Sandra Passmore – Senior Adviser, Services For Education
Sandra is a Senior Adviser in the School Support Service and has extensive experience in safeguarding, health and wellbeing and evidence based practice. She has worked nationally with key government departments (Departments of Health and Education) to help shape strategy and policy whilst still retaining the focus on working for the best outcomes for children and young people.
She has a PhD on the psychology of health related choices which has informed the development of award winning, evidence based programmes such as Health for Life in primary schools and Health for Life in nursery schools which have been proven to have a sustainable impact on improving the health and wellbeing of children and families.
Sandra has for many years been a lead in developing and delivering the DSL (Designated Safeguarding Lead) training that trains and supports all headteachers, senior leaders and other staff. She has been pivotal in expanding the remit of the safeguarding work to also include issues such as domestic abuse and sexual violence and harassment within the education context.
Sandra passion for improving the lives of children has lead her to develop work within Public Health and managed RCT (Randomised Control Trials) on the effectiveness of interventions such as the daily mile. She is also working with colleagues both locally and nationally to reduce health inequalities in children both in early years and primary schools. Additionally Sandra has written books for teachers and pupils as well as peer reviewed academic journal papers.
Jo Perrin taught PSHE in schools for over a decade and held the role of Designated Safeguarding Lead and pastoral lead. She currently works as an Education Adviser for Services For Education which allows her to combine her experience in schools with a personal knowledge of child protection and childhood trauma as a foster carer.
In addition, Jo worked as a West Midlands’ Adviser for a national PSHE resource, has delivered a presentation to the Sex Education Forum National Members’ Event and has created a variety of RSE resources as part of her role for Services For Education.
Jo’s advisory experience is not limited to training school staff as she works with non-education based organisations to support them in safeguarding and emotional health and well-being aims and is an affiliated trainer for Mental Health At Work.
Over a career spanning 20 years, Tricia has been involved in primary Education in a variety of contexts – as a teacher; senior leader; headteacher (within an LEA and within an Academy) and teacher educator. She is an experienced, successful headteacher, having led two schools since 2010.
For three years Tricia was Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Wolverhampton. In this role she was Module leader for English and Lead Tutor for the PGCE. Tricia is part of our School improvement team and is a tutor on the SFE primary initial teacher training programme.
She is the Lead English Adviser and co-leads on our curriculum development programme. Another key part of her most recent work has been embedding an understanding of cognitive theory into CPD, and ensuring this is the basis of work going forward.
After teaching for 25 years, Liz worked as an advisor with Services For Education for over 10 years leading on Mental Health, Emotional Health and Wellbeing before becoming an independent consultant. As well as working with schools Liz has presented key note talks, workshops and research findings at national conferences.
Liz has written 4 books and teaching resources that are used across the country by schools and other professionals working with children. Liz also works as a schools’ engagement trainer for the Anna Freud Centre, a Wellbeing Award advisor for Optimus Education and is a Protective Behaviours practitioner and trainer.
