Music Teacher
Springwell Leeds Academy, Leeds, LS10 3JA24 days remaining to apply
Closing date
9 February 2026 at 8am
Date listed
16 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS + SEN point
Additional allowances
MPS/UPS + SEN point
Music Teacher job summary
Springwell Leeds Academy
Teacher of Music - South Site
A Permanent, Career-Defining Opportunity
Required ASAP
Salary: MPS/UPS + SEN point
Escape the mainstream and make a profound difference where it matters most.
Springwell Leeds Academy is seeking an exceptional, versatile Teacher of Music to join our team. This isn't just a teaching post—it's a chance to build a bespoke curriculum, inspire the most vulnerable students in the city, and lead an essential part of their therapeutic and educational journey.
Why Springwell Leeds is Different:
Autonomy to Innovate: Move away from the sole pressure of mainstream results. You will have the freedom to design varied, bespoke experiences as well as deliver music qualifications that truly meet the needs of our students.
A Needs first Subject Focus: Your role is centered on teaching children to play, sing, create, and truly enjoy music. You will be the specialist, supported by a fully equipped, music room in a bespoke SEMH school.
High-Value Music Programme: Music is integral to our curriculum model, supporting the social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) of our pupils. Work as part of a wider Arts team, collaborating with specialists across the city to deliver a creative programme unlike a mainstream offering. Springwell Leeds is twice a Music Champion School and an Arts Mark Gold accredited school.
Unconditional Support: Join an SEMH provision that operates in line with best practice, with significant investment in therapeutic and wrap-around support. Extensive training and support are guaranteed for staff to deliver high-quality learning.
We Are Looking For:
A passionate teacher with a proven track record of exceptional practice, ready to work with pupils with social, emotional, and mental health difficulties (SEMH). Resilience, drive, high expectations, and imaginative flair are essential to inspire our students and support them in achieving their potential in essential life skills.
About us
Springwell Leeds aims to provide the best possible care and education that we can for children and young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs. Unconditional Positive Regard is at the centre of what we do and we are creating an academy that is welcoming, caring, safe, warm and believes that all its pupils can be supported and empowered to succeed. We are creating individual and personalised pathways for our students that are built around their varied needs which will help them achieve positive outcomes and prepare them for their onward destinations into continuing education, work or training. In order to achieve this, we have developed a curriculum that provides opportunities for academic progression as well as vocational learning, whilst being engaging, creative, and innovative.
We see strong relationships as the key to our success - with students, parents, carers and the wider community and we ensure that our academies are welcoming safe places for children to learn and prosper. We believe in working closely with our families and carers and welcome their support, but also realise that at times they will need our support too. We work closely with other agencies and schools to make sure we do all we can to make learning and life the best it possibly can be.
Springwell Leeds places a huge emphasis on professional development and invests significantly in staff training at all levels. This means that, although experience of working in an SEMH setting would be an advantage, specialist support and training will be provided for outstanding teachers wishing to make the career-fulfilling move into special education.
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If you would like to discuss or find out more about this post, please contact Laura Reader, Principal, via email l.reader@springwellacademyleeds.org
Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to attendance at interview.
Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if deemed relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.
We are committed to equal opportunities and to promoting diversity. We want our people to reflect the diversity of our communities, and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from under-represented groups, including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.
If you are currently living overseas or have lived / worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/ countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Springwell Leeds is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All candidates successfully selected for interview are required to complete a self-disclosure form.
The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 provides that when applying for certain jobs, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
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 Springwell Leeds Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 16
- School size
- 345 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Springwell Leeds Academy website
Springwell Leeds Academy is a special school for children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs.
We are located on three sites accross the city of Leeds in Middleton, Seacroft and Tinshill - check job details for where each role is based.
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