Lead Teacher of Music
Orion Spires, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 0HD32 days remaining to apply
Job start date
27 August 2026
Closing date
1 May 2026 at 12:59am
Date listed
23 March 2026
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916.00 - £45,352.00 Annually (Actual) TLR2a
Lead Teacher of Music job summary
Based at Orion Spires, Canterbury
We are looking to recruit a Lead Teacher of Music who will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality and engaging music lessons to our students. You will inspire a love for the subject, foster critical thinking and contribute to the overall success of our students.
Job Purpose
To improve outcomes, transform lives and enable social mobility.
To live the vision and values of the Orion Trust, promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people for who you are responsible and with whom you come into contact.
To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher/form tutor
To share and support the academy’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.
Key Responsibilities
To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate
To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher/form tutor
To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential
To contribute to raising standards of student attainment
To share and support the academy’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Orion Spires
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 667 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Orion Spires website
At Spires Academy we offer a distinctive small school environment where each individual is well known, listened to and encouraged to be the best they can be. Serving just over 600 students enables us to maintain an inclusive and nurturing community atmosphere, where staff work with students to develop the skills, confidence and knowledge needed to reach their full potential.
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