Teacher of Music and Drama (part time 0.6 FTE, 19.5 hours)

Allerton Grange School, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS17 6SF

17 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  19 April 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  2 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subjects: Drama, Music
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: TBC

Teacher of Music and Drama (part time 0.6 FTE, 19.5 hours) job summary

ASPIRE, GROW, SUCCEED

Are you a passionate and skilled Music specialist who is excited by the opportunity to teach Music up to KS5, while also bringing creativity and enthusiasm to KS3 Drama?

Would you like to be part of a great team of talented professionals in a curriculum-focused role?

If so, we want to hear from you!

Our Culture

We are proud to be a school delivering an exceptional quality of education. We are true to our core values and enable our employees to engage in challenging and rewarding work, whilst at the same time supporting them to aspire, grow and succeed. We believe that engaged, motivated and happy staff are the foundation of a successful school community.

Our Values

The Allerton Grange values are the behaviours and qualities that are valued in fellow employees and our staff community. At Allerton Grange, we place particular emphasis on the following values, behaviours and qualities. This means we are looking to recruit and promote people who live these values on a daily basis.

• Integrity

• Compassion

• Community

• Humility

• Emotional Intelligence

• Courage

• Critical Thinker

• Collaborative

• Diligent

• A Role Model

The challenge to us all at Allerton Grange School is to continue to improve and grow as a community. We need to unlock the skill, passion and discretionary effort that undoubtedly exists within our teachers in order to reinforce the status of our wonderful profession as well as promote individual wellbeing. We also want to ensure that our teachers feel able to make the next steps in their career but we also wish to create a culture here at Allerton Grange School that encourages them to stay and grow with us.

The successful post holder will:-

• Be an inspirational teacher with a proven track record of success.

• Embrace the current changes to the curriculum and drive up progress and outcomes.

• Have the ability to inspire, engage and enthuse students, staff and the wider community.

• Have a professional drive, energy, determination and aspiration.

• Collaborate and work with key leaders across school to support further school improvement.

We will offer:-

• A talented and committed staff team who are supportive of each other. This includes framework for staff voice and a fair workload charter to ensure wellbeing and a good work life balance.

• A Headteacher, Leadership Team and Governing Body committed to creating a school of outstanding practice.

• The opportunity to grow in your teaching practice and work with young people in a truly comprehensive, multi-cultural community environment.

• Excellent professional development opportunities, including a subject-specific CPD model which focuses on subject knowledge.

• Fantastic building resources and facilities with dedicated rehearsal rooms, music tech suite, performance spaces.

If you share our values, ambition, have a proven track record, and relish a new challenge we look forward to receiving your application.

If you would like to apply for this post please download the application pack from this site.

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

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.

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.

About Allerton Grange School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1742 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Allerton Grange School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/allerton-grange-school-leeds

• We are a large and growing school – we currently have 1700 students and have an intake of 300 students in Year 7.
• Allerton Grange is located 4 miles from Leeds City Centre in an attractive residential area. We have an impressive school building, with a newly opened Sixth Form Centre, housing our diverse community of 260 post-16 students.
• Our increasing success is due to our rigorous, knowledge-rich curriculum supported by four cornerstones: knowledge, literacy, aspirational enrichment and social mobility.
• We have a resourced provision for deaf and hearing impaired students. We also have a number of visually impaired students.
• Our latest Ofsted inspection (February 2020) recognised the quality of provision we provide. They were particularly impressed by our curriculum.

Ofsted quote (February 2020) – “Parents and carers are very positive about the school. They say their children are happy and make good progress. We agree.”

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