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Teacher of Music

Nunnery Wood High School, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 2LT

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  2 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  11 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: Music
• Working pattern: Full time, part time: Full time or part time considered
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650 - £49,083
• Pay scale: M1 to UPS3

What skills and experience we're looking for

The person appointed to the post will:

be an enthusiast and an inspiration to young people;

hold an appropriate degree level qualification and a recognised secondary age range teaching qualification;

3. be able to demonstrate a successful track record of teaching Music to at least GCSE level;

be an experienced teacher with good background knowledge of Key Stages 3 and 4 of the National Curriculum and of its assessment;

have administrative and organisational skills and be ICT literate;

have leadership qualities which will enable him or her to take the Music Department forward;

have an understanding of the learning needs of all students and be able to respond to them;

be aware of and responsive to current teaching developments within the subject area and to have an overview and understanding of educational developments generally;

expect and be able to achieve appropriate standards of behaviour and discipline both within and outside the classroom;

work collaboratively within the Arts Department and with other staff;

develop and expand the current range of extra-curricular activities associated with the Music Department;

be in sympathy with the ethos of the School and seek to uphold, develop and enhance the achievements and standards towards which the School works;

13. have the ability to support pupils/respond to parents through fluent and accurately spoken English.

What the school offers its staff

Situated in a recently built area of the school, the department enjoys outstanding facilities including a suite of iMacs, practice rooms and a large workroom. A superb theatre, dance studio and drama area are located in the same block making for a performing arts hub. The school has been awarded the Artsmark Platinum Award, one of only 46 schools nationally, which is testimony to the standard of arts provision at Nunnery.

Nunnery Wood High School is oversubscribed and enjoys a strong reputation in the region. Staff and students enjoy school life and staff voice extremely high levels of satisfaction with working conditions and leadership of the school. Staff enjoy many benefits including a slightly lighter timetable than is common and a school gym.

Recent Ofsted inspections describe both results and student behaviour as significant strengths. Our intake is broad, from the academically gifted to students requiring nurturing in numeracy and literacy. We are ambitious for them all and share a deep conviction that they should all reach their potential with us.

This is a fantastic opportunity for dedicated and driven professionals to join our team. You must possess the skills and determination to make a significant difference to the lives of our students. Applications are invited from both newly qualified and experienced professionals.

This is an opportunity to work in a thriving school where students, staff and parents work together to achieve something of which we are immensely proud.

Commitment to safeguarding

Nunnery Wood High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students.

All staff at Nunnery Wood High School have a safeguarding responsibility.
The successful applicants will be required to undertake safer recruitment vetting checks, including an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS.

Applying for the job

Please complete the online application.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Class Teacher JD 2024-25.pdf - 145 KB (opens in new tab)

Music Person Spec Apr25.pdf - 138 KB (opens in new tab)

Music Teacher Advert Apr25.pdf - 215 KB (opens in new tab)

About Nunnery Wood High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1494 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Nunnery Wood High School website
• Email address: personnel@nunnerywood.worcs.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01905363636
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/nunnery-wood-high-school-worcester

Welcome to Nunnery Wood High School.

Nunnery Wood High School is an academy in Worcester, Worcestershire, England. It is a co-educational school and a Science College with about 1500 students on roll aged from 11 to 16. In 1983 following a restructuring of schools in Worcestershire the Nunnery Wood Secondary School was renamed Nunnery Wood High School.

The school campus is located on the edge of Worcester, surrounded by some 15 acres (61,000 m2) of gardens and playing fields which it shares with the adjacent Sixth Form College. The school benefits from refurbished or purpose built extensions including facilities for Science, English, Music, Art & Design, Languages and ICT. The school’s sports centre has an all-weather outdoor pitch and athletics track.

Arranging a visit to Nunnery Wood High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email personnel@nunnerywood.worcs.sch.uk.

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