Teacher or Lead Teacher of Music
Glebelands School, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 7AN4 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
16 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
2 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: This role can be part time or full time. Details can be discussed at interview
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £33,075 - £50,471)
Pay scale
- MPD/UPS +TLR2 (£33,075 - £50,471)
Additional allowances
TLR2
What skills and experience we're looking for
QUALIFICATIONS
- Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject area.
- Professional teaching qualification.
- Extensive and successful secondary phase teaching experience across a range of ability.
- INSET relevant to current developments in the teaching of Music.
- Experience of leading Music teaching or learning development (eg in a scheme of work or best practice across a department).
- The relationship of Music to the curriculum as a whole.
- Statutory curriculum requirements for Music and the requirements for assessment recording and reporting.
- The characteristics of outstanding teaching in Music and the main strategies for improving and sustaining high standards of teaching and learning.
- Using evidence (from a variety of sources) to inform expectations, set targets for improvement and strengthen teaching approaches.
- How to develop students’ literacy, numeracy and ICT skills through Music.
- The implications of the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice and Health and Safety requirements for teaching and learning in Music.
- Ability to
KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING, EXPERIENCE & SKILL
-manage a department budget and resources -solve problems and make decisions
-present information to parents and governors -plan, implement, monitor and evaluate
-provide support and professional development for staff.
PEOPLE AND RELATIONSHIPS
- Ability to relate to, and work successfully with, students of all ages and from all backgrounds.
- Ability to inspire students and staff to achieve their very best.
- Ability to work well in a team and independently.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with colleagues, students and parents.
- Adaptability to changing circumstances and new ideas.
- Energy, perseverance and resilience.
- Commitment to the growth and future development of Music at Glebelands.
- Clear vision of own professional future.
- Hardworking, with good personal organisation and time management.
- A sense of humour.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
- A competitive salary and TLR, dependent on experience and potential
- A strong vision of excellence under pinned by pedagogy, innovation and best practice
- A commitment to Continuous Professional Development
- A supportive, collaborative Senior Leadership Team who welcome ideas and innovation
- A centralised, disruption free behaviour system
- A happy, busy and purposeful learning environment where students behave well and enjoy their learning
- An innovative approach to the use of IT where all classrooms are equipped with smart boards and visualisers
- A friendly, supportive, respectful school community where all staff and students are known to each other
- Weekly Department Masterclasses for collaborative planning during the timetabled day
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.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to gmacvicar@glebelands.surrey.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Glebelands School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- Up to 900 pupils
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Glebelands School website
- Email address
- mkerry@glebelands.surrey.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01483 542400
Glebelands is a mixed, 11-16 comprehensive school with an established reputation for high academic standards at the heart of our community in this pleasant area of Surrey. The school is near Guildford and within easy reach of London and the south coast. If you are a practitioner with the ability to inspire and motivate students, we would like to hear from you.
Arranging a visit to Glebelands School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email mkerry@glebelands.surrey.sch.uk.
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