Executive Music Specialist Teacher
| Posting date: | 12 May 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 May 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW2 5EF |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ccf88bc4-55d2-441f-a199-f49ccfe13674 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding and highly motivated music specialist to work across our federation of schools at Clapham Manor Primary and Sudbourne Primary School, located approximately one mile apart. The successful candidate will have a passion for music and be able to inspire, motivate and challenge pupils to achieve the highest levels of performance, they will also oversee a team of skilled peripatetic music tutors. You will join a talented and hardworking staff team, supported by a leadership team and Governors who are committed to fostering a culture of team work and collaboration. If you are a specialist teacher with a passion for the arts and performance and instilling this in our children, this could be the opportunity for you!
The successful candidate will:
• Be a highly motivated, committed and enthusiastic classroom practitioner
• Have a passion for music and an ability and commitment to engage, motivate and inspire all children to learn, achieve and make good progress
• Have a real belief in inclusivity and the fact that all children can be supported to be successful
• Have an excellent knowledge and understanding of the National Curriculum for music and an ability to plan and deliver creative and engaging lessons
• Have commitment to high standards of attainment and achievement
• Have flexibility, resilience, adaptability and commitment to working as part of a team
• Be a great communicator with good interpersonal skills who can also actively engage with parents
• Be passionate about education in a school deeply rooted in the local community
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
• Wonderful pupils in diverse and inclusive schools with a real commitment to the community
• An enthusiastic and highly skilled staff team
• A commitment to on-going professional development to further develop your career with a dedicated Personal Growth Partner (PGP) to support and guide your career pathway
• A commitment to ensure a respectful work life balance and regular opportunities to socialise with colleagues
• A powerful ethos based on improving children’s lives through outstanding education
• An imaginative curriculum which emphasises the importance of all aspects of a child’s development
• An opportunity to lead music with flexibility and autonomy over its future direction
• A well-resourced, exciting teaching and learning environment in both schools
• An existing team of peripatetic music tutors
• Blocked PPA time with your phase group partners
• A deeply committed staff and governing board, constantly striving for improvement and excellence
• Active and engaged parents and carers
• (We reserve the right to interview early if we receive strong, suitable applications in advance of the closing date
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding and highly motivated music specialist to work across our federation of schools at Clapham Manor Primary and Sudbourne Primary School, located approximately one mile apart. The successful candidate will have a passion for music and be able to inspire, motivate and challenge pupils to achieve the highest levels of performance, they will also oversee a team of skilled peripatetic music tutors. You will join a talented and hardworking staff team, supported by a leadership team and Governors who are committed to fostering a culture of team work and collaboration. If you are a specialist teacher with a passion for the arts and performance and instilling this in our children, this could be the opportunity for you!
The successful candidate will:
• Be a highly motivated, committed and enthusiastic classroom practitioner
• Have a passion for music and an ability and commitment to engage, motivate and inspire all children to learn, achieve and make good progress
• Have a real belief in inclusivity and the fact that all children can be supported to be successful
• Have an excellent knowledge and understanding of the National Curriculum for music and an ability to plan and deliver creative and engaging lessons
• Have commitment to high standards of attainment and achievement
• Have flexibility, resilience, adaptability and commitment to working as part of a team
• Be a great communicator with good interpersonal skills who can also actively engage with parents
• Be passionate about education in a school deeply rooted in the local community
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
• Wonderful pupils in diverse and inclusive schools with a real commitment to the community
• An enthusiastic and highly skilled staff team
• A commitment to on-going professional development to further develop your career with a dedicated Personal Growth Partner (PGP) to support and guide your career pathway
• A commitment to ensure a respectful work life balance and regular opportunities to socialise with colleagues
• A powerful ethos based on improving children’s lives through outstanding education
• An imaginative curriculum which emphasises the importance of all aspects of a child’s development
• An opportunity to lead music with flexibility and autonomy over its future direction
• A well-resourced, exciting teaching and learning environment in both schools
• An existing team of peripatetic music tutors
• Blocked PPA time with your phase group partners
• A deeply committed staff and governing board, constantly striving for improvement and excellence
• Active and engaged parents and carers
• (We reserve the right to interview early if we receive strong, suitable applications in advance of the closing date
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.