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Head of Music
Mercia School, Sheffield, S7 2DY11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
9 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
26 June 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
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS1 to UPS3 £31,650 to £49,084 +TLR2b £5,647
Head of Music job summary
Salary: Teachers’ pay scales + TLR2b
Contract term: Full time, 1.0FTE, permanent
Start date: 1 January 2026
Closing date: Midnight Wednesday 9 July 2025
Mercia Learning Trust
Mercia Learning Trust is a successful partnership of four primary and three secondary schools located in the south-west of Sheffield. Established in 2012, with one secondary school, our trust has grown to serving over 5000 pupils, with 650 staff.
Why do we exist?
- To empower everyone in our communities, especially the most disadvantaged, to succeed.
How do we behave?
- We are kind - showing care and supporting each other.
- We have integrity - doing the right thing and always putting children first.
- We work with diligence - overcoming obstacles and having no excuses.
What do we do?
- We run schools that focus on academic excellence, cultural capital and the development of character.
How will we succeed?
- A culture of excellence – high standards shaped by clarity, not control.
- Academic focus – empowering all children through an exceptional curriculum.
- Purposeful collaboration – relationships built on trust, reducing sub-optimisation and driving collective success.
Our staff are a crucial part of our trust, just like our pupils. We are devoted to recruiting, training, retaining and taking good care of our highly skilled and dedicated team.
Mercia School
Mercia School (11-18) opened in 2018 in a brand-new building. Leaders and governors have an ambitious vision for the school and are determined that all pupils, irrespective of background will thrive and achieve well. The school has secured a strong reputation for educational excellence and during the last three years, has been the most over-subscribed school in the city.
Mercia School has a strong commitment to reduce workload for teachers. Within the longer day and ten training days, staff have dedicated time to complete all essential tasks and professional development. Everything is designed to ensure teachers have the time and energy to teach, and leave school at the end of the day without further work to undertake.
In February 2023, Ofsted inspected the school and graded all aspects of provision, and its overall effectiveness, to be ‘Outstanding’. Mercia School published exceptional GCSE results in the summer of 2023, achieving the highest Progress 8 score for disadvantaged pupils, this high-level of performance was repeated in 2024.
In September 2023, Mercia Collegiate Sixth Form opened. As the school continues to grow, it is crucial that we sustain our culture and effectiveness, and this role is central to our continued success.
The role
We are seeking a highly skilled and talented music subject specialist. You will join a school with an incredible culture where you can contribute to the development of the music curriculum. You will be committed to continuous improvement, striving to be the best teacher you can be. As such, you will deliver exceptional lessons and secure outstanding learning, progress and attainment for every pupil. Furthermore, all teachers contribute to the pupil elective and enrichment programme and are expected to engage in all aspects of school life.
At Mercia School, lessons are:
- based on a carefully constructed, sequenced and ambitious curriculum
- demanding and carefully planned so that all pupils make strong progress and secure necessary disciplinary knowledge
- taught in a traditional way that gives pupils time to practise and master content
- focused on learning, retention and strong foundations, and preparation and readiness for GCSE and beyond
- always delivered to pupils who have exceptional behaviours and attitudes for learning, and in lessons without distraction
This is also a unique opportunity to join one of the best schools in the country and make a difference to the life chances of its pupils.
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 Mercia School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 912 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Mercia School website
At Mercia School we offer an education that is traditional and academically rigorous.
It is our belief that all pupils, whatever their background, have a right to a culturally rich education.
We strive to ensure all pupils can access the very best universities in the land, or a valuable alternative.
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