Teacher of Music
Cambourne Village College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB23 6FRThis job expired on 26 March 2025
Start date details
1 September 2025
Closing date
26 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650.00 - £49,083.00 Annually (FTE) MPS/UPS
Teacher of Music job summary
Salary: MPS or UPS
Contract: Permanent. ECT’s welcome to apply
Hours: Part time or full time from 60%
Start date: 1 September 2025
We are seeking to appoint a skilful, enthusiastic and dedicated Teacher of Music from September 2025 to join our growing department.
You will be joining a well-established, vibrant department with a thriving extra-curricular programme and outstanding provision across all key stages. Students in year 7-9 receive three lessons per fortnight, studying a practical and exciting curriculum that develops skills in both music and music technology. Music is offered at GCSE (OCR) and A level (Eduqas), and both NCFE Level 2 and A level Music Technology (Edexcel) have been offered to students for the first time this year.
The Performing Arts and Music facilities are impressive, with a purpose-built, 300 seat auditorium which holds our concerts and productions. Lessons take place in a newly opened Performing Arts block comprising four classrooms, twelve practice rooms, and a recording studio. Each classroom has a set of keyboards (one between two students), a set of ukeleles (one per student), and classroom percussion.
We are extremely proud of our broad extra-curricular provision. There is a long tradition of producing a high-quality musical each year, for 2025 this has been We Will Rock You, with recent shows including Beauty and the Beast, Addams Family Values and Chicago. Each term we also present a music concert, and there are plans for a large-scale arts festival this summer. Younger students get to shine in our lower-school productions for year 7 and 8 students. We also run an orchestra, Junior, Senior and Barbershop choirs, a Jazz band and guitar and ukulele group.
Full and part-time applications will be considered. This post is suitable for ECTs or experienced teachers.
Cambourne Village College is an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ rated, over-subscribed secondary school, eight miles from Cambridge. We opened as an academy of the Cam Academy Trust in September 2013. Our ethos is aspirational and inclusive, our staff is highly motivated, our pupils courteous and hard-working, and we have excellent facilities. A 350 place sixth form opened in September 2024, and will have 175 students in each of Years 12 and 13. Joining Cambourne Village College represents a unique opportunity to work in a newly-established school within a wider, high-quality Academy Trust that gives excellent possibilities for professional and career development.
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.
About Cambourne Village College
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1380 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Cambourne Village College website
Cambourne Village College, an academy of The Cam Academy Trust, opened in brand new premises in September 2013 with just five forms of Year 7 pupils. Serving one of the fastest-growing communities in the UK, we now have more than 1300 pupils on roll, with major further expansion planned, including the opening of our new sixth form centre in September 2024.
The College has enjoyed remarkable success since opening, gaining an early Ofsted Outstanding rating along with designation as a Leading Edge School. Our pupils achieve excellent results in public examinations via a curriculum designed to offer maximum breadth and opportunity for all abilities. Our extra-curricular offer is also outstanding: annual musical drama performances, termly concerts, a wide range of competitive and recreational sporting activities, and many further clubs and events are on offer. In 2019, we were granted the International School Award by the British Council and are looking forward to re-launching our programme of international visits and exchanges this year.
We strive to be a welcoming and inclusive school for our pupils and also to fulfil our Village College ethos in serving the whole community: we support an active adult education programme and more than 30 local groups and organisations make use of the school’s facilities, out of hours. This unusual commitment to our local community was a key factor in our winning a prestigious Silver Award in the ‘Making a Difference’ category of the Pearson School of the Year celebrations in 2018.
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