Head of Music/Music Teacher
Hartsdown Academy, Margate, Kent, CT9 5REThis job expired on 3 May 2024
Earliest start date
3 June 2024
Latest start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
3 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
22 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- 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, part time: We welcome applications from candidates wanting to work full time or part time.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
TLR for Head of Department position
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative and dynamic head of department/teacher to take the music department forward. The successful candidate will be well qualified, passionate about their subject area and capable of building on this already successful department.
We welcome applications for the role of Head of Department from experienced colleagues or current subject leaders. For colleagues that feel they are on their path to middle leadership, we would be excited to support them on their journey in their role as a music teacher.
The ideal candidate will have high expectations of young people and want to progress in their career. They will have a commitment to ensuring that children can achieve their full educational potential. They will hold positive values and attitudes and adopt high standards of behaviour in their professional role.
For further details, please see our recruitment pack.
What the school offers its staff
An exciting environment where you can really make a difference
Being part of a small local trust that is totally committed to its staff and children
Significant opportunities for CPD and development within the school and trust
Leadership training and pathways exist within the trust
Training/development opportunities within the nationally recognised PIXL programme
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.
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About Hartsdown Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 773 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Hartsdown Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- titheringtonc@hartsdown.org
Hartsdown Academy is here to be a great school that builds a stronger and happier community so that people have amazing lives. We look to provide our children with "education for an amazing life".
It is the love and commitment that our staff show our children that enables their success and we promise that staff will be supported, encouraged and respected. We want Hartsdown to be an enjoyable and rewarding place to work.
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