Lead Teacher of Music
Parkside Community College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 1EH12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
27 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
8 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £35,000 - £51,000
Additional allowances
TLR2A - £3,391
What skills and experience we're looking for
Parkside Community College has an exciting opportunity for a Lead Teacher of Music to join their team. This is an opportunity to lead on integral aspects of the Music curriculum. Can you bring the ambition, professionalism and drive necessary to support our pupils to achieve their utmost potential?
The Lead teacher supports the Head of Department in managing the operational activities of the Faculty to ensure that all areas are managed effectively to the highest standards.
Please look at the job description to find further information of role.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- A welcoming and supportive staff team who thrive on collaboration
- A competitive salary, above the maintained sector scale
- membership of the generous Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- Opportunities for professional development
- Access to employee benefits including via Perkbox
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme offering confidential counselling and advice
Flexible working opportunities
The School
Parkside Community College is part of the Cambridge cluster within United Learning and is committed to bringing out ‘The Best in Everyone’ through an education that develops rich knowledge and character.
Parkside Community College is a highly oversubscribed school with a long history of success and an excellent reputation for innovation in education. We are situated in three sets of buildings, with the main site, overlooking Parker’s Piece, opening in 1913. We offer 120 places in each year group and believe deeply in the power of ‘human scale’ education, where every student is very well known and strong relationships help teachers to support their classes to exceptional outcomes. Our last inspection graded us Outstanding and our GCSE results in 2022 make us one of the highest performing schools in the country, within the top 1% of schools for progress.
Our intake is diverse: we have a large proportion of higher attainers on entry; we also have significant profile of Special Educational Needs. We have many students join us from overseas, with a range of ability in English, both in the main school and in the 6th Form.
We are committed to supporting our colleagues to be highly effective teachers: as well as department curriculum time, we develop our teaching as a whole staff every week, informed by Rosenshine’s Principles. We have a behaviour policy that is consistent and enables colleagues to teach without disruption.
United Learning
We are part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.
Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.
As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.
We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.
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
Please complete the online application.
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About Parkside Community College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 735 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Parkside Community College website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- laura.onyemembenedict@parksidecc.org.uk
Parkside Community College is part of the Cambridge cluster within United Learning and is committed to bringing out 'The Best in Everyone' through an education that develops rich knowledge and character.
Parkside Community College is a highly oversubscribed school with a long history of success and an excellent reputation for innovation in education. We are situated in three sets of buildings, with the main site, overlooking Parker's Piece, opening in 1913. We offer 120 places in each year group and believe deeply in the power of 'human scale' education, where every student is very well known and strong relationships help teachers to support their classes to exceptional outcomes.
Our intake is diverse: we have a large proportion of higher attainers on entry; we also have significant profile of Special Educational Needs. We have many students join us from overseas, with a range of ability in English, both in the main school and in the 6th Form.
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