Visiting Music Teacher - Singing
King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls, Birmingham, West Midlands, B17 8QB6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter 2026
Closing date
2 February 2026 at 8am
Date listed
27 January 2026
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: Flexible, approximately 5 hours per week
Contract type
- Casual
Hourly rate
- £35.78 per hour (plus holiday pay)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you an enthusiastic and committed Music specialist looking to make an impact on young people's lives?
King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls is seeking to appoint someone who believes passionately about making a difference to the lives of every student and who does so with integrity, humility and relentless positivity.
We are looking for a music teacher to provide singing lessons to our students, with infectious enthusiasm and excellent communication skills with an ability to develop and maintain positive relationships with students, colleagues and parents.
The successful candidate will work as part of a strong team and will be willing to participate in all aspects of school life including support for extra-curricular clubs.
What the school offers its staff
Excellent working conditions that include:
- Supportive, enthusiastic and committed colleagues
- Operate in line with school teacher terms and conditions
- Automatic enrolment in workplace pension scheme
- Subscribed to the DfE wellbeing charter
- Additional Trust training day each year
- Access to a range of CPD and training tailored to your needs
- Unlimited access to TES develop
- Opportunities to develop both within the school and across the Trust
- Catering on training days
- Employee assist programme (including counselling services)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Annual flu vaccination (for those who don’t qualify under the NHS)
- Free eye test
- Software to support with role completion e.g. Studybugs, GCSE pod
- Buddy system for first year of employment
- Workroom for all teachers
- Free car parking for all staff
- Free laptop to complete school work
- Free exercise classes
- Free tea, coffee, milk and sugar
- Free access to TES magazine
- Free access to ‘The Key for School Leaders’
- Only one meeting/after school event per week
- Consistent night for all after school activities
- Online parents’ evenings
- Staff recognition programme
- Staff wellbeing committee
- Social events (in school and out of school)
- Reprographics department to undertake printing
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
King Edward VI Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Shortlisted candidates will have online checks undertaken before interview. Successful applicants be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children, it is a criminal offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
KEVI is committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
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About King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 968 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls website
- Email address
- s.allport@lsg.kevibham.org
The King Edward VI Foundation, Birmingham, is a progressive charitable organisation which has supported excellence in education across the City since 1552. Our schools are diverse in nature but have a common purpose and commitment to achieving our mission of “making Birmingham the best place to be educated in the UK”.
Our Academy Trust currently consists of two independent schools, six selective, and five non selective academies. Our recent expansion into a wider diversity of local communities is enabling us to accelerate our strategies for improving the life chances of young people in Birmingham, whatever their background.
The King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham (“the Academy Trust”) was established in 2017 and is made up of the academies outlined above. The academies receive back office central support services including governance, from the Foundation Office (a central support services function), with several staff being seconded from the Foundation to deliver support services to the Academy Trust and the academies themselves.
Our highly focused five-year strategy aims to build on our existing strengths and heritage and deliver our ambitious growth strategy which aims to bring in a further five academies over the next five years.
Arranging a visit to King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email s.allport@lsg.kevibham.org.
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