Teacher of Music
Trinity Academy, Bristol, BS7 9BY21 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
23 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
27 March 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Part time (Can be done as a job share): 13 - 16.25 hours a week over 2 - 3 days. Can be up to 32.5 hours if a second subject is offered.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 to UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
This is a unique opportunity to join a music department in a performing arts specialist school. We are looking for an outstanding, experienced musician looking to develop their practice and excited by the opportunity of working within the Cathedral Schools Trust.
What the school offers its staff
Trinity Academy is a highly over subscribed music and performing arts specialist school. It opened in 2019 and moved to a £24m building in 2021. The facilities include a 550 seater concert hall with grand piano and music specialist rooms.
Trinity is a values based community that:
focuses on the learning of all students and staff (our ‘Head’)
cares deeply for our young people and one another (our ‘Heart’)
is committed to co-curricular enrichment (our ‘Soul’).
Our stated goal is to be a +1 school for progress. As such, we are looking for a highly motivated, professional and well qualified leader to join us in realising our mission.
Why choose Trinity Academy?
Trinity is a ‘Good’ school with ‘Outstanding’ leadership and management and ‘Outstanding ‘Personal Development’ (Ofsted Jan 2024)
The progress of our students is significantly above the national average (P8 +0.53)
Consistent behaviour and expectations allow you to focus on the craft and science of teaching
Weekly coaching for all staff and weekly department co-planning
Exceptionally visible and supportive senior leadership team
Hardworking staff and students who want to do well
Schemes of work fully resourced and ready
Further details about the role
We are committed to your professional development, as both teacher and leader. As a growing school there is considerable opportunity for career development both within the school and across the Cathedral Schools Trust. The post can be part time or there is scope for full time if a second subject is offered.
Applications are welcome from experienced teachers with the vision and ability to work in an outstanding department.
If you would like to find out more about the school including FAQs, please visit the website at: www.trinityacademybristol.org.
Please read further documents for further details about the role including the job description and person specification.
Please note that we will only consider applications through iTrent and will not consider CVs so please ensure that your supporting statement on the application meets the requirements of the person specification. We encourage you to be succinct and to restrict your supporting statement to no more than four pages in length.
Closing date: 23rd April 2025
Interviews: 6th May 2025
Due to the high levels of applications for roles at Trinity, we are unable to register receipt of applications. Candidates will be contacted if they are successfully shortlisted for an interview. If you have not heard from us by the interview date, unfortunately you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We reserve the right to appoint before the deadline for an exceptional candidate.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. All posts at Trinity Academy are subject to pre-employment checks including, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service. It is an offense to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity.
The school may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.
The safeguarding responsibilities of the post include:
Ability to ensure and deliver effective safeguarding
Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The school is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Cathedral Schools Trust is an equal opportunities employer and recognises the strength in diversity. Our schools have a wide range of cultural, socio economic and religious influences and we use this to ensure that we broaden our understanding of each other and the world.
Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.
We are a life-friendly school and support our employees in achieving a balance in life and meeting their commitments beyond school.
For further information about our Recruitment and Safeguarding procedures, please refer to CST Recruitment, Selection and Disclosure Policy and CST Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. The post is subject to satisfactory completion of all vetting checks including the provision of two strong references and an enhanced DBS check.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Trinity Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 811 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Trinity Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@trinityacademybristol.org
- Phone number
- 0117 4509379
Trinity Academy is a highly oversubscribed free school that opened in 2019. We are a values based community that focuses on the learning of all students and staff, that cares deeply for our young people and each other and that is committed to co-curricular enrichment. Our stated goal is to be a +1 school for progress and as such, we are looking for a highly motivated, professional and well qualified teacher and leader to join us in our mission.
Why choose Trinity Academy?
Consistent behaviour and expectations allow you to focus on the craft and science of teaching
Weekly coaching for all staff and weekly department co planning
Exceptionally visible and supportive senior leadership team
Hardworking staff and students who want to do well
Schemes of work fully resourced and ready
Arranging a visit to Trinity Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@trinityacademybristol.org.
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