Music Teacher
Warlingham School, Warlingham, Surrey, CR6 9YBThis job expired on 20 May 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
20 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
9 May 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Main Scale
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications & Experience
- Qualified Teacher Status/Relevant Degree
- Secondary Trained
- Evidence of commitment to further professional development
- Experience of teaching at a variety of key stages
- Experience of intervention to identify underachievement and raise attainment
- Comprehensive school experience
- An awareness of the forthcoming changes to the curriculum across all key stages
Knowledge & Understanding
- Excellent subject knowledge
- Use of assessment to promote student learning
- Awareness of current developments in the teaching of all levels, including KS3, KS4, KS5
- Appreciation of current developments post 16
- Principles of comprehensive education
Skills & Aptitudes
- Effective Classroom practitioner
- Excellent communicator with effective interpersonal skills and organisation skills
- Ability to enthuse students of all abilities
- The capacity to function creatively and generously in a mutually supportive team
- Quality provision for all students
- Confident use of IT
- Able to implement curriculum change
Personal Attributes
- Effective team player
- Vision, warmth, energy and enthusiasm
- Pursuit of high standards - both academic and behavioural
- Integrity
- Willing to contribute to all aspects of school life
- Able to maximise contributions from parents, governors and the school community
- Ability to contribute with flair and commitment to the effective performance of the department
Safeguarding
- Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people in line with the School/Trust Child Protection and Safeguarding policy and the Staff Code of Conduct/ Behaviour Policy
What the school offers its staff
You will be joining a forward thinking Trust at an exciting time in its development and will enjoy our many staff benefits which include: -
- Well established and supportive training and development opportunities
- Family friendly policies and wellbeing initiatives
- Wellbeing Focus and Employee Assistance Programme
- Lifestyle and retail discounts
- Staff sports and social events
The department is housed in its own building and includes three teaching staff and a number of private and Surrey peripatetic teachers. The department is extensively resourced with a wide range of instruments and creative spaces. We have a full suite of PC's running Cubase and Ableton and a dedicated recording studio.
The extra curricular offering is varied, broad and reflects the curriculum offer. We hold concerts at Christmas and in the Spring term alongside a choir competition for Year 7 in the Autumn term. The annual Warlstock rock festival takes place in the Summer term involving all the local community.
Commitment to safeguarding
Tandridge Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to safer recruitment checks, including an enhanced DBS check.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Warlingham School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1426 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Warlingham School website
- Email address
- s.trethewey@tandridgelearningtrust.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01883776677
Warlingham School is a thriving 11-18, mixed, comprehensive school situated on the fringe of Surrey and Greater London. The school converted to academy status in November 2012, as a ‘stand-alone’ school and then joined with four Primary Schools in May 2017 to form a cross-phase MAT - Tandridge Learning Trust. It was built in 1954 and occupies a large, attractive site on a campus which includes Hamsey Green Primary School.
“There is an open culture where everyone works together to improve progress for all students” – Ofsted 2017
Arranging a visit to Warlingham School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email s.trethewey@tandridgelearningtrust.co.uk.
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