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  • Start date details

    January 2025

  • Closing date

    18 November 2024 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    8 November 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant
  • Other support roles

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: Variable - hours to be agreed in advance

Contract type

Casual

Hourly rate

£34 per hour

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will have a passion for helping students to develop their talent and confidence in music! The peripatetic tutor will teach groups/ individual students at all levels and prepare them for practical exams where appropriate, ensuring to cover all elements of the exams process. It is desirable that our successful candidate can teach beginner and intermediate piano. We also expect peripatetic tutors to take responsibility for student registers, tracking/reporting progress and supporting students in achieving targets that are set out each term. The role will naturally include administrative duties, therefore, please consult the job description for a full list of responsibilities. This is a self-employed role. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis so early applications are encouraged.

What the school offers its staff

We are an Outstanding co-educational 11-19 yr comprehensive school, heavily oversubscribed, and our school is a beacon of excellence for secondary education in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. We are driven by the belief that every learner is entitled to an enriching, varied and personalised education; delivered through a broad and balanced curriculum that provides challenge, irrespective of need, starting point or background. Our mission is to ensure all our students develop into powerful citizens of the digital future on both a national and global scale.

Our strong learning community works together and shares the value of collaboration; every member of our academy family works together to achieve success, cultivating a strong sense of belonging. Our belief in ‘human-scale’ education, delivered through a schools-within-schools model, ensures every one of our students is known and valued. Strong pastoral care is at the heart of our academy and we place great importance on building strong partnerships with parents and carers.

Since opening in September 2018, Leigh Academy Blackheath (LAB) has established itself as the local community’s preferred choice for their child’s secondary education. We have received in excess of 1,100 applications for this September’s 180 Year 7 places, with over 300 first choice preferences. It is an exciting time to be joining our learning community.

At LAB, everything we do is built upon our core values of: Respect, Integrity, Ambition, Scholarship and Resilience. We are a strong team and work hard together to ensure every student realises their full potential. Staff have access to a wide range of professional development opportunities both within the academy and across Leigh Academies Trust (LAT). A flexible approach with a can-do ethos is required, as is drive, grit and boundless enthusiasm. A sense of humour is essential!

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 Leigh Academy Blackheath

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
959 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

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