Head of Music
Cambourne Village College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB23 6FR2 days remaining to apply
Closing date
7 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- UPS with TLR 2B - £5,792 per annum
Head of Music job summary
THE VACANCY
Head of Music at Cambourne Village College and Cambourne Sixth Form
Contract: Permanent/Full time
Starting Salary: UPS with TLR 2B - £5,792 per annum
Required: September 2025
We are seeking to appoint a skilful, enthusiastic and dedicated Head of Music from September 2025.
Cambourne Village College is an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ rated, over-subscribed secondary school, eight miles from Cambridge. We opened as an academy of the Cam Academy Trust in September 2013. Our ethos is aspirational and inclusive, our staff is highly motivated, our pupils courteous and hard-working, and we have excellent facilities Our new sixth form opened in September, welcoming its first cohort of year 12 students and offering an exciting package of A level and BTEC qualifications. Joining Cambourne Village College represents a unique opportunity to work in a newly established school within a wider, high-quality Academy Trust that gives excellent possibilities for professional and career development.
This is a stellar opportunity to lead a thriving Music department. The incoming Head of Department will join at a time when Music and the Performing Arts are tremendously well-established and going from strength to strength. The school having just secured Platinum Artsmark Award, with the Music department playing a very significant part in this.
The Performing Arts and Music facilities are impressive. A purpose-built, 300+ seat auditorium is the venue for our concerts and productions, while curriculum lessons and extra-curricular rehearsals take place in a brand-new Performing Arts block about to open, comprising four Music classrooms, twelve practice rooms, and a recording studio. Each classroom has a set of keyboards (one between two students), a set of ukeleles (one per student), and classroom percussion.
We are extremely proud of our thriving extra-curricular Music scene. The annual production regularly attracts 75+ students and sells out its four-night run. In addition, we hold a full Music concert at the end of each term. as well as a separate production for lower-school students. Students take instrumental lessons, and the Head of Department will line-manage the TLR holder for, but not directly implement, the programme of peripatetic instrumental teachers. . A part-time administrator also supports in the day-to-day organisation of the department and peripatetic staff.
We run OCR GCSE Music in year 10 and 11 and Eduqas A level Music in KS5. From September 2025 we are hoping to run NCFE level 1/2 Music Technology, as well as Edexcel A Level Music. The full curriculum for all current year groups can be viewed on the College website: Music - Cambourne Village College (cambournevc.org).
The school has excellent IT resources and facilities, and all pupils and staff have their own iPads as part of successful one-to-one iPad scheme.
The full current curriculum for all current year groups can be viewed on the College website: Music - Cambourne Village College (cambournevc.org). Full details are provided on the job description and person specification.
We do also accept applications via TES.
For any other information and to arrange a visit, please contact James Russen: JRussen@cambournevc.org. Pre-application visits to the College are welcomed.
Further details are provided on the Job Description and Person Specification.
The Cam Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, barred list check and a medical questionnaire.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Cambourne Village College
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1380 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Cambourne Village College website (opens in new tab)
Cambourne Village College, an academy of The Cam Academy Trust, opened in brand new premises in September 2013 with just five forms of Year 7 pupils. Serving one of the fastest-growing communities in the UK, we now have more than 1300 pupils on roll, with major further expansion planned, including the opening of our new sixth form centre in September 2024.
The College has enjoyed remarkable success since opening, gaining an early Ofsted Outstanding rating along with designation as a Leading Edge School. Our pupils achieve excellent results in public examinations via a curriculum designed to offer maximum breadth and opportunity for all abilities. Our extra-curricular offer is also outstanding: annual musical drama performances, termly concerts, a wide range of competitive and recreational sporting activities, and many further clubs and events are on offer. In 2019, we were granted the International School Award by the British Council and are looking forward to re-launching our programme of international visits and exchanges this year.
We strive to be a welcoming and inclusive school for our pupils and also to fulfil our Village College ethos in serving the whole community: we support an active adult education programme and more than 30 local groups and organisations make use of the school’s facilities, out of hours. This unusual commitment to our local community was a key factor in our winning a prestigious Silver Award in the ‘Making a Difference’ category of the Pearson School of the Year celebrations in 2018.
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