Teacher of Music (temporary maternity cover)
Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQ12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April 2026
Closing date
3 November 2025 at 8am
Date listed
22 October 2025
Job details
Job role
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Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (FTE) Teachers' Main / Upper Pay Scale
Teacher of Music (temporary maternity cover) job summary
We wish to appoint from April 2026 a well-qualified, enthusiastic and committed Teacher of Music. The post is full-time (or 0.8 part-time) and temporary to cover a maternity leave. We could consider part-time teachers on a job-share basis. The position would suit an ECT or experienced teacher.
The Department
The Music Department is part of the Faculty of Creative Arts. The Music Department staffing currently consists of 3 full-time Music teachers. The school is the recipient of an Artsmark Award in recognition of its Creative Arts provision. The four departments of Art, Dance, Drama and Music organise much of their own work but they also work together, particularly at Key Stage 3. The Faculty team meets regularly as a group and ideas for working imaginatively and collaboratively are welcomed.
Music is taught to all students in Years 7, 8 and 9. There are flourishing GCSE groups in Years 10 and 11 and strong A Level groups; eduqas is the exam board taught at both KS4 and KS5.
The Department is well equipped on both sites with good-sized teaching rooms and several practice rooms. At Key Stage 3 all teachers deliver an agreed schemes of work and includes activities using Music Technology (Ableton) electronic keyboards as well as tuned and untuned percussion instruments.
Choirs, orchestras and instrumental groups produce many performances throughout the year. The Faculty has also worked together on whole school musicals. Recent productions include We Will Rock You, Avenue Q, Guys and Dolls and The Wizard of Oz. There are several whole school music concerts, performances at the Candle-lit Service, and a Creative Arts Evening in the Summer. At Upper School, there are monthly Live Lounge lunchtime gigs which are student-led.
We are fortunate to have annual funding for Arts activities in the school from a bursary known as the Willie Howe bursary. This supports a variety of Arts workshops throughout the year, as well as providing funding for 5 annual Music Scholarships (appointed for a year).
Application
We hope you are interested and want to follow up with a firm application. Please apply through MyNewTerm.
In your Supporting Statement, you should:
- State why you are interested in the post
- Identify and explain which aspects of the job description would match your skills and experience.
- You may also choose to include details of your particular interests.
Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013, 2020 and 2023). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
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 Lord Williams's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2290 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- Lord Williams's School website
Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed.
We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work.
We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form.
The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.
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