Head of Music
The Elms Academy, London, SW4 9ET15 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
28 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Inner London United Learning Teachers’ pay scale
Additional allowances
TLR for Head of Music
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications
- Qualified Teacher Status with a subject specialism related to the area of responsibility.
- Ability to teach across the full 11-16 age range.
- Evidence of relevant postgraduate training related to management and/or education.
- Appropriate in-service training/CPD.
- Coaching and/or mentoring training and experience.
Experience
- Highly effective classroom practitioner.
- Proven ability to share outstanding practice with colleagues.
- Excellent classroom management skills.
- Involvement in shaping and implementing the vision of a department; developing and implementing departmental policies and practices; curriculum development.
- Evidence of active involvement in school-wide provision or initiatives.
- Proficient ability in an instrument, or range if instruments
Professional Knowledge & Understanding
- Knowledge of recent curriculum developments and opportunities in the subject.
- Ability to articulate characteristics of effective teaching and learning, with evidence of good practice.
- Understanding and experience of raising attainment strategies and improvement planning at a departmental level.
- Ability to use data to evaluate student performance and take effective action based on this data.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- A passion for the subject and a desire to promote learning.
- Ability to express a vision for subject development.
- Ability to use new technologies in the teaching of the subject.
- An understanding of the broader music industry and keep up-to date with developments in the field
Management Skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and proven positive relationships with students, staff, parents, and other members of the school community.
- Ability to plan time effectively and meet required deadlines.
- Understanding of accountability.
What the school offers its staff
We are proud to be part of United Learning Trust; our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, group-wide intranet, own curriculum, and online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.
As a Group our staff are better rewarded: with good career opportunities, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing; it's our core ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.
Central Office staff work closely with schools, offering a wealth of expertise to underpin our knowledge. The specialist departments, including HR, finance, technology, strategy and performance, estates, and marketing, work alongside dedicated school improvement teams.
Committed to having a diverse and representative team
We welcome applications from everyone committed to our ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit.
Flexible Working
At United Learning, we value the dedication, professionalism and hard work of our teachers, support staff and school leaders, and strongly believe that everyone should be able to do their job without sacrificing a family life or compromising their well-being. We are committed to encouraging and enabling flexible working opportunities throughout our schools wherever possible and will support employees seeking to work more flexibly.
Find out more about working with us at www.theelmsacademy.org.uk/about-us/work-with-us.
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Elms Academy
- School type
- Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 813 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Elms Academy website
- Email address
- cpopa@theelmsacademy.org.uk
School: The Hurlingham Academy
About The Hurlingham Academy: The Hurlingham Academy is a very special community. The school was officially recognised as outstanding in March 2023 and inspectors saw that ‘pupils behave exceptionally well and achieve highly.’ In 2022, our GCSE results were ranked the highest in United Learning Academies, the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and the school was ranked ninth in the country for progress. A tremendous 93% of students achieved a grade 4 or above in both English and maths, with 88% achieving grade 5 or above in the two subjects. At the higher levels, nearly half (48%) of all students achieved a grade 7 or above in English and maths.
These tremendous results are due to the unique culture and community that has developed at The Hurlingham Academy. The highest expectations of students and real academic rigour are combined with a strong focus on developing the whole child and embedding a culture in which every single child matters, and must be supported to achieve their full potential. 42% of our students are pupil premium (nearly twice the national average) and so we are working to help some of the UK's most economically needy students achieve the best GCSE results possible and thus change lives. All staff at the academy are driven by a strong mission to provide educational excellence to students with the least privilege.
Our results show that The Hurlingham Academy is a place where students from all backgrounds thrive academically and socially in an atmosphere of mutual respect, tolerance and diversity. Our academic approach is for every student in every lesson to enjoy their learning. We strive to ensure that our teaching standards are exceptionally high, and that children feel safe and supported in school. Lessons follow a knowledge-rich and academically rigorous curriculum, and we place a significant emphasis on teachers inspiring their students to love their subject through strong personal subject knowledge and a passion for their subject.
The Hurlingham Academy is a close-knit and diverse community that learns together, has fun together and continues on our journey towards all-around excellence for each individual student year after year. The Academy has cultivated a friendly and welcoming environment for all its staff, with a strong collaborative culture that has community at its heart. Our staff feel empowered, supported and are provided with the highest-quality professional development. We pride ourselves on ensuring that every member of staff is supported to be the best they can in the classroom and to achieve their career aspirations. Here is the opportunity for you to join one of the most happy and successful schools in United Learning and to be part of the incredible journey that The Hurlingham Academy has been on.
As part of United Learning, some of the benefits of working at The Hurlingham Academy are enhanced rates of pay, additional planning days, shared curriculum resources, access to subject advisers and networks, 20% PPA time across an average working week, enhanced parental leave, wellbeing support, access to free and confidential counselling support, excellent CPD offer and career progression opportunities within school clusters.
The Hurlingham Academy is a mixed secondary academy based in Fulham, West London, located just 10 minutes from Parsons Green tube station; adjunct to South Park and within a stone’s throw of the River Thames.
Closing date: noon, 24th May 2024
Safeguarding info: The Hurlingham Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is required for all successful applicants
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