Teacher of Music
Southend High School for Girls, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 4UZ62 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
16 April 2026 at 12:59am
Date listed
13 February 2026
Job details
Job role
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Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (FTE)
Teacher of Music job summary
Part Time Teacher of Music
0.7 FTE
1 Year Fixed Term
Required for September 2026
Closing date: Wednesday 15th April 2026
Interviews to be held on: 27th April 2026
You will be joining a busy and vibrant Music Department working within a successful and supportive faculty. Music plays a central role in the wider life of Southend High School for Girls, and we are looking for a fun, enthusiastic team player who can inspire students and engage them in creative, rigorous and imaginative musical experiences.
We offer Music at both GCSE and A Level, following the Eduqas examination board, the department is actively shaping and enhancing its curriculum across all key stages to ensure a high-quality and coherent musical education.
The Music Department offers a wide range of extra-curricular opportunities, with a variety of clubs and ensembles running regularly at lunchtime leading to a full programme of concerts throughout the academic calendar. These events are a highlight of school life and provide students with extensive opportunities to perform, collaborate and develop confidence as musicians.
Within the department, there is scope for the successful candidate to contribute towards the continued development of Music at Southend High School for Girls, particularly through performance, enrichment and their own musical interests and areas of expertise.
The ability to teach Music at KS3 and KS4 is essential
The successful candidate should:
- Be an inspirational classroom practitioner with an irresistible enthusiasm for their subject. As a reflective practitioner you will be constantly looking to develop your practice through collaboration, experimentation, and hard work.
- Be a team player working closely with the Head of Department to develop the learning experiences for all our students.
- Be creative and innovative constantly looking for new ways to challenge our high ability students.
- Contribute to secure the highest standards of pupil achievement, monitoring, tracking, supporting, and evaluating pupil achievement. Set targets for improvement and implement effective strategies for underperforming students.
We can offer you:
- Highly motivated, curious, and industrious students.
- A strong, highly qualified staff team and an ethos of tolerance and respect with a family community spirit.
- A commitment to ongoing professional development and staff wellbeing.
- An environment which promotes innovation.
Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girls’ grammar school rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues to move forward under the leadership of its Headteacher, Mr Jason Carey
For all enquiries, please contact Sinead Carter, HR Manager at HR@shsg.org
We reserve the right to call applicants to interview, and appoint, prior to the closing date
All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check. This is a customer facing role needing fluent spoken English.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Southend High School for Girls
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1253 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Southend High School for Girls website
Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.
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