Lead Teacher of Music - Maternity Cover

Co-op Academy Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7HD

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  To be confirmed

• Closing date

  10 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  30 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: Music
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours per week
• Contract type: Fixed term - 9-12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS £32,916 - £51,084 plus TLR 2A £3,527 R & R £3,000
• Additional allowances:

  TLR 2A £3,527 R & R £3,000

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Evidence of a successful teaching practice with more than one year group
• Experience of promoting positive behaviour conductive to learning and which is focused on raising standards
• Successful experience of teaching at KS3, 4, 5.

• Successful teaching experience – evidence of at least consistently “good” teaching during formal observations
  

• Knowledge and understanding of current theory and best practice in learning and teachingtechniques

• The theory and practice of providing effectively for the individual needs of all children

• Statutory National Curriculumrequirements at the appropriate keystage

• The monitoring assessment, recording and reporting of pupils' progress

What the school offers its staff

We offer a wide range of benefits and rewards to recognise the part you play in our success:

Our employee benefits package includes:

• You’ll get being a Co-op member, you’ll get a Co-op colleague discount card. This gives you a 10% discount in our Co-op Food stores.
• Co-operative flexible benefits (discounted line rental and broadband package, family care advice and cycle to work scheme)
• Discounted gym membership and leisure activities which includes discounts on Merlin Entertainments (Sea Life, Legoland etc), Virgin Experience Days, SuperBreak and many more!
• Co-operative Credit Union: save directly from your salary and receive a competitive dividend. Borrowers can benefit from very competitive interest rates & terms (in comparison with other high street lenders)
• Co-op Funeralcare benefit
• Season ticket and rental deposit loans

And More!

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Join our vibrant school community as a Lead Teacher of Music, where your passion for music can inspire the next generation of musicians and creative thinkers! At Co-op Academy Leeds, we believe in the power of music to enrich lives and foster creativity. We are excited to welcome a passionate Music Teacher to join our dedicated team.

As a Lead Teacher of Music, you will help to implement and deliver an exciting, knowledge-rich curriculum that is thoughtfully sequenced and is informed by expert subject knowledge and the latest educational research.

At the top of your game, you’ll have great behaviours, strong organisational skills, the ability to collaborate effectively, and be able to work constructively as part of a team. How and why you do things matters greatly to us, as does your ability to use your initiative, work independently and be resilient.

You’ll do all this while capturing the spirit of our vision and values and role-modelling exceptional professional behaviours.

Commitment to safeguarding

Co-op Academies Trust as an aware employer is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults as its number one priority. This commitment to robust recruitment, selection and induction procedures extends to organisations and services linked to the Trust on its behalf. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. We value variety and individual differences, and aim to create a culture, environment and practices at all levels which encompass acceptance, respect and inclusion. All our colleagues are expected to demonstrate a commitment to Co-operative values and principles.

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About Co-op Academy Leeds

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 969 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Co-op Academy Leeds website
• Email address: dianne.singleton@coopacademies.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/co-op-academy-leeds

Co-op Academy Leeds is a ‘Good’ school (Ofsted, Nov 2022) and on the back of our recent successes we’re fully committed to getting even better.

Here at Co-op Academy Leeds, we aim to ensure everyone has the opportunity to flourish, both academically and socially. We expect students and staff to have the courage to aim high, the commitment to persevere – even when the going gets tough – and the mindset which will allow them to grow.

Teaching and learning sit right at the heart of everything we do – nothing else matters if the learning culture is not good enough. We focus relentlessly on ensuring staff receive regular, relevant and useful professional development, much of which is provided and delivered by our in-house Teaching & Learning Team. Anyone who joins us is expected to contribute to this sharing culture.

We have high expectations – and unstinting moral values. As an integral part of Co-op Academies Trust, we espouse the core Co-op values (Self-help, Self-responsibility, Solidarity, Democracy, Equity and Equality) and have adopted the 4 Ways of Being Co-op: Be yourself, always; Do what matters most; Show you care; Succeed together.

We also enjoy the significant support of the Trust and the Sponsor, which brings with it a range of opportunities and benefits, alongside a less “formal” package of colleagues working together to look after their well-being and forge stronger relationships.

We really are all about providing the best we can for everyone – making sure our students leave here and move on to better things, whatever their starting points and backgrounds.

Arranging a visit to Co-op Academy Leeds

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email dianne.singleton@coopacademies.co.uk.

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