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  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    10 March 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    24 February 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

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Subject

Music

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£36,413.00 - £53,994.00 Annually (Actual) MPS / UPS to reflect current level and experience

Music Teacher (maternity cover) job summary

We need a dynamic and well qualified musician to join our team of staff in the Creative Expressive Arts Faculty, which incorporates both Music and Drama. The Faculty is built on a foundation of positive collaboration to create an offer which is exciting, diverse and challenging. We are committed to enabling students to thrive and grow both as performers and in academic study. Music has a high profile, and we are proud of our excellent outcomes at JCoSS: it is offered to both GCSE and A Level, and in the Sixth Form we also offer Music Technology A Level. The Department and the Faculty also make important contributions to the Ethos and life of the school, through a wide range of extra-curricular activities and performances, both staff and student-led, which take place throughout the year.

The school places a high value on the opportunities that Music and Drama present, in and out of the classroom, to build personal qualities, encourage self-expression and build teamwork. If you are an enthusiastic teacher of Music who can share this vision, we would love you to join us. The post is suitable for experienced teachers, and the potential to teach GCSE and A Level exists for the right candidate. Experience in teaching Music and/or Music Technology A Level would be an advantage.

Commitment to safeguarding

JCoSS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all its staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) clearance.

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About JCoSS

School type
Local authority maintained school, Jewish, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1345 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19

Our Vision: JCoSS is an academic, aspirational learning community, known and respected for our pioneering spirit, our humanity and our excellent outcomes.

Our Ethos: If you think you know what working in a Jewish school might be like, be ready to think again. Our outward-looking and pluralist Jewish ethos combines an embrace of open-minded values with a deep love of the varied riches of Jewish tradition. The staff and leadership team includes different faiths and none at all levels, and the school has a culture of purposeful good humour and humanity. We are a school like no other.

Our Results: We have a track record of outstanding results. Students achieve excellent outcomes and make great progress. In 2023 46% of A level grades were at A*or A and more than 79% of Cambridge Technical grades were Distinction* or Distinction. 45% of GCSE grades were grade 7 or higher, with more than a quarter of the cohort achieving at least 7 GCSEs at grade 7 or better. Our ALPS grade has been consistently 2 at both A level and GCSE, and our ‘Progress 8’ score is consistently significantly above national average. Supported by a strong programme, students every year gain places at Oxbridge and for Medical and Veterinary Study, as well as for a wide range of specialisms and competitive courses at prestigious institutions.

Staff Benefits: We appoint on potential as well as experience, and we are committed to supporting staff development. Several non-teaching colleagues have trained with us as teachers; our rich CPL programme includes full induction for new teaching staff including ECTs, NPQ programmes, and financial support for MA courses, Action Research projects and many other opportunities. Additional responsibilities are always considered for suitable candidates and we offer ECTs employment for the last few weeks of the summer term. Our admissions policy includes priority places for the children of all staff*. Our website details a huge number and variety of staff wellbeing initiatives.

* (Children, Jewish and non-Jewish, of JCoSS staff who have a permanent contract of employment and have completed two years of service on the last day of the summer term of the academic year prior to application)

Our Location & Community: The school is in beautiful £50m buildings overlooking the Green Belt. It is easily accessible from Northern, Piccadilly and Overground rail links, public buses run past the entrance and a school coach service (available to staff) serves our whole catchment area. We attract students from eloquent and supportive communities across North London and Hertfordshire.

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