Head of Music
Archway School, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 4AX7 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
23 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR/UPR
Additional allowances
TLR 2b £5640 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will:
- Aspire to deliver an outstanding education to all our young people.
- Proactively engage with CPD (the school has a generous CPD budget and is keen to fund staff who wish to improve their skillset).
- Be able to bring lessons to life in an innovative and meaningful way.
- Think creatively about how to implement schemes of learning and share their pedagogical ideas with colleagues.
What the school offers its staff
Successful candidates will benefit from:
- One paid ‘wellbeing day’ per academic year, which can be booked off during term time.
- Use of school facilities, such as swimming pool and gym.
- After school activities, such as staff Pilates.
- Electric car charging points with reduced charging costs.
- Professional development opportunities to support career progression.
Further details about the role
We are excited to offer this fantastic opportunity to lead a dynamic and growing Music department. Due to a promotion for our current Head of Music, this position has become available.
As Head of Music, you will lead the department, playing a crucial role in curriculum development, student achievement and staff support. This is a key leadership position, offering the chance to drive innovation, collaboration and excellence.
We are looking for an inspirational leader with a passion for music education, a strong track record of teaching examination groups in music and the ability to inspire and develop both students and staff.
We welcome applications from motivated and ambitious individuals who are eager to play a pivotal role in the next stage of our school’s development.
If you are excited by this opportunity, we would love to hear from you!
Archway is a Relational Practice school, where building and maintaining positive relationships is at the heart of everything we do. We believe that strong connections among all members of our school community is essential to our success; creating a collaborative, supportive environment where everyone can thrive. Our ethos of Relational Practice is also key to the ambition we have for all students to have the opportunity to succeed.
Join us as Head of Music and be an integral part of our school's journey, supporting our commitment to relational practice and academic excellence.
Full Time Head of Music
- Start date: 1st September 2025
- Permanent contract/ Full time/MPR/UPR
- TLR – 2B £5640 per annum
- Closing date for applications Sunday 23rd March 2025
- Interview date TBC
Archway school is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from people with protected characteristics such as age, gender reassignment, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, disability, race including colour, nationality or ethnicity, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and therefore expects all staff and volunteers to share this same commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and this position is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.
As part of our due diligence for safer recruitment, the school may carry out online searches for shortlisted candidates to help identify any incidents or issues which may need to be explored at interview. The searches would be made on open-source information and may include, but will not be limited to, the main social networking sites, including Instagram and Facebook.
We reserve the right to close applications before the deadline if necessary.
Please note we are unable to provide feedback to applicants who are not shortlisted for interview.
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 Archway School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 997 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Archway School website
- Email address
- zoefield@archwayschool.net
Archway is a maintained, co-educational comprehensive school for students aged between 11 and 18 years old. We currently have 916 students on the roll, of whom 132 are in Sixth Form.
Arranging a visit to Archway School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email zoefield@archwayschool.net.
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