Music Assistant
Simon Balle All-Through School, Hertford, Hertfordshire, SG13 8AJ2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st October 2024
Closing date
2 July 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
21 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- H3
Music Assistant job summary
Simon Balle Music Assistant.
Overall purpose of the job
Simon Balle Music is a vibrant community of musicians from Reception to Year 13. 30% of our school has instrumental or vocal lessons and 25% are involved in enrichment each week. We have a programme of 40+ concerts, recitals and events each year and our musical outcomes are way above local and national data. 250+ students take a music exam each year. This role sits at the heart of Team Music, providing operational and logistical support, supporting the smooth running of all our musical work.
The role will support the Music Manager and Director of Music. The assistant will support the Music Manager with operations within Team Music, completing tasks as delegated. This could include, but is not limited to supporting events and concerts, processing data and records, preparing music for ensembles, maintaining our instrument stock and stewarding for exams. It is important that applicants have an understanding of music education and music.
A key part of this role will be to develop new approaches to our processes to make them even more efficient, developing our use of technology, ensuring the smooth running and team efficiency within Simon Balle Music.
The role is for 15 hours per week Term Time plus one week to include a Wednesday from 2.30pm until 9.30pm (the start time can be negotiated).
For more details of our amazing music, where 30% of the school learn an instrument, please visit https://www.simonballe.herts.sch.uk/music/
If you have any questions or would like to visit, please email Mark Taylor, Director of Music on music@simonballe.herts.sch.uk.
We are committed to a policy of openness and equality of opportunity in the employment of staff. We will not condone discrimination on the grounds of the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. It is our central responsibility to ensure that every individual that we come into contact with is treated with dignity and respect .
Simon Balle All-through School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants for this post must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including reference checks with previous employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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 Simon Balle All-Through School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Through schooljobs
- School size
- 1597 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
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