Music Teacher (Temporary)

Outwood Academy Riverside, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, TS1 2AD

5 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2027

• Closing date

  15 November 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  10 November 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
  • Suitable for early career teachers (699)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Term time: Monday to Friday 32.5hrs per week Term time only
• Contract type: Fixed term - Up to 12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
• Full time equivalent salary: £32,916 to £45,352

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you a dedicated and highly effective educator committed to raising the achievement of all students within your subject area? Join us as a Teacher, where you will be instrumental in delivering high-quality learning, utilising a range of teaching and learning strategies to ensure student success.

This position requires a professional who is aware of strategies for improving learning, understands curriculum developments, and is creative in finding solutions to enhance student performance.

Essential qualifications include a degree in an appropriate discipline related to the relevant subject and a teaching qualification coupled with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). Required experience includes recent and relevant teaching experience (either in employment or training) and experience of assessment at Key Stage 3 and 4.

The successful candidate will be confident in using standard computer packages (word processing, email, and spreadsheets) and understand how these tools can enhance student learning. The role demands high levels of professionalism, including the ability to relate to students in a pleasant and sympathetic manner, and a capacity to recognise potential child safeguarding issues.

At Outwood Academy Riverside, we are already four years into a transformative journey as a MiSST school, where the Andrew Lloyd Webber Programme ensures that every student across Key Stage 3 is gifted their own musical instrument. This commitment has laid a formidable foundation, culminating in the exciting growth of our very own school orchestra. We are seeking a Music Teacher to join our Performing Arts Department as Maternity cover until August 2027 in the first instance, with the possibility of an extension to December 2027. This is an opportunity to join an established department where instruments are already in hands and the talent is flourishing. If you have any questions or would like to visit the school, please contact Mr Richard Gooding at r.gooding@riverside.outwood.com

What the school offers its staff

We are a free school in the centre of Middlesbrough, and we do things differently! Do you?

We am proud to introduce you to Outwood Academy Riverside, an innovative free school within a nationally renowned Trust that nurtures talent and provides high-quality professional development.

Opened in 2020, Riverside is a special place to work with genuine care for every family member. Our community is built on core values, including kindness, compassion, respect and integrity. We maintain academic rigour and high expectations, resulting in very good behaviour and attendance that is above the national average. Students face no 'glass ceiling' and benefit from exceptional personal development opportunities (including Cadets, MiSST and LAMDA).

This is a unique opportunity to join an inspirational team making history. We are currently on Russell Street (with a satellite site in Eston) and we are planning a move to new state-of-the-art facility in 2027. Would you like to be a part of this journey?

If you genuinely love working with children and will go above and beyond for our young people, we would love to hear from you.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.

Applying for the job

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About Outwood Academy Riverside

• Organisation type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 745 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Email address: r.gooding@riverside.outwood.com
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/outwood-academy-riverside

Outwood Academy Riverside, founded in September 2020 through the Free Schools Programme, implements the Riverside values program for all students at the start of every academic year.

The academy is dedicated to the wide variety of students who enrol, ensuring strong routines and top-notch pastoral care for all pupils.

Located at Russell Street, Middlesbrough, Outwood Academy Riverside is set to have a new school built on Pioneering Way close to Middlesbrough College. Additionally,we have a satellite site in Eston which opened in September 2024 as the school continues to grow.

Arranging a visit to Outwood Academy Riverside

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email r.gooding@riverside.outwood.com.

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