Teacher of Music
Grace College, Gateshead, NE9 6LE14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
30 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
4 April 2025
Job details
Job role
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- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650.00 - £49,083.00 Annually (FTE) M1 - UPS3
Teacher of Music job summary
Grace College are looking to recruit a Teacher of Music who is passionate about the value of music and the arts in education. A teacher who will enthuse pupils to learn with a combination of great subject knowledge, musical skill, creative energy and dedication. This is an exciting time to join the Creative Arts team at Grace College, as we work collaboratively to develop music, drama and art. This role would suit a teacher at the beginning of their career, or an experienced teacher seeking a new challenge. For the right candidate we are able to offer a competitive salary, based on experience and are willing to discuss a retention and recruitment package.
Join us as we inspire the creative leaders of the future; students who thrive within our arts' rich curriculum and in our extensive co-curricular programme. To facilitate career development in the arts we offer Music, Drama, Art and Graphics A Level in our Associated Sixth Form based at Emmanuel College. We want students at Grace College to take every opportunity offered to develop a lifelong love for and enjoyment of the arts, understanding that their creative and artistic skills can create career opportunities with extended study.
We have high expectations for our students as they grow and develop, and all our staff provide important role models to them in terms of positive attitude, work ethic and diligence.
In this role you will:
- Develop schemes of work and lesson plans in line with curriculum objectives
- Facilitate learning by establishing effective relationships with pupils
- Maintain organised learning resources, using your extensive music skills
- Create a positive, creative learning environment in the classroom
- Fully immerse yourself in the varied co-curricular and events programme at the college
- Develop and foster the appropriate skills and social abilities to enable the optimum development of children
- Assess and record progress and prepare pupils for national tests
- Link pupils' knowledge to earlier learning and develop ways to encourage it further, challenging and inspiring pupils to help them deepen their knowledge and understanding
Further information is available in the job description and person specification.
Join us and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:
- Defined benefit pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Daily lunch allowance
- Free parking
- Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
- Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
- Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Grace College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1190 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Grace College website
As an 11-19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our Christian ethos. We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development. We have a clear model for school improvement to provide outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy, as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.
We are committed to realising the potential of our students and staff alike. Our hope and expectation are that each person will be deeply valued as infinitely precious, challenged to grow in character and inspired by learning together to achieve their personal best in whatever they do.
Join us and you can expect to be nurtured, supported, and encouraged at every step of your career. We put staff professional learning and development front and centre of everything we do in our partnerships with outstanding regional and national organisations. Ultimately, we are looking for the school leaders of tomorrow who will contribute here at Grace College and across the Emmanuel Schools Foundation.
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