Music Teacher
Application Deadline: 7 February 2025
Department: Education
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Balerno, Edinburgh
Compensation: £33,594 - £50,589 / year
Description
Harmeny Education Trust is a charitable organisation providing therapeutic care and education to children who have experienced early years trauma through abuse, neglect and family disruption, referred from all over Scotland. We currently work with children and young people aged 5-18, both on a day and all-year-round residential basis.
Our core service, Harmeny School, comprises:
· An education service, which includes an outdoor learning team.
· A care service, with five residential cottages and one day service cottage.
· Support services, made up of finance, estates, catering and domestic services, fundraising, IT, HR, learning and development, and admin teams.
We are seeking a Music Teacher with recent and significant experience of secondary teaching to join our outstanding Education Team on a full-time employed basis, working with children with complex additional support needs.
The successful candidate will work 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, from 8.30am to 4.30pm, exclusive of a daily unpaid lunch break of one hour.
Along with a creative approach to learning and teaching, you will demonstrate a working experience on the Curriculum for Experience through the Broad General Education and onto the Senior Phase. Our young people will require a bespoke approach to their learning and will require the teacher to understand their needs. The Music Teacher must be able to create an engaging and motivating learning environment.
Most importantly, we are looking for a Music Teacher who has an infectious enthusiasm for their subject with a drive and passion for supporting young people through to a positive destination. You will require to have the resilience to work with children who have social, emotional and behavioural needs in a nurturing, sensitive, caring way.
Three school closure days are allocated for additional learning and development required for the specialist therapeutic learning environment that Harmeny promotes. Applicants should be registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland. A driving licence allowing the use of our vehicles is essential.
The successful applicant will be placed appropriately on the current national scale between Point 0 (Probationer) - £33,594 per annum - and Point 5 - £50,589 per annum.
If you would like to find out more about this rewarding opportunity, please contact Mandy Shiel, Head of Education, on 0131 449 3938.
Key Responsibilities
1. Plan, deliver and assess the Music curriculum at Harmeny School.
2. Provide learners with a platform from which they can foster talents and interests for life-long learning.
3. Provide opportunities to create and perform both within Harmeny and the wider community.
4. Enable learners to develop practical and creative music-making skills necessary for participation in a wide range of expressive arts activity.
5. Increase self-esteem, developing social skills including leadership and appreciation for other performers.
6. Plan, deliver and assess quality learning and teaching and promoting the attainment of all pupils through a range of musical, accessible, stimulating and fun activities throughout the 24-hour curriculum.
7. Actively engage with children in a caring, sensitive and encouraging way, building positive and trusting relationships and maintaining appropriate boundaries at all times.
8. Be familiar with and work in accordance with all HETL policies and procedures to promote a positive ethos in the Harmeny School community consistent with HETL’s Vision, Purpose and Core Values.
9. Facilitate and coordinate children’s engagement with musical activity, according to the individual needs of the child.
10. Develop talents and interests and where appropriate access expressive arts activities and competitions within the wider community.
11. Have a creative, dynamic, flexible approach to working with children in a variety of environments to encourage positive and appropriate behaviours, through the use of effective strategies which recognise the complex behaviours of children at Harmeny.
12. Organise and deliver a programme for staff, promoting professional development and empowering them to confidently deliver music activities relevant to their role.
13. Assist the Education Management Team with the development of the curriculum, according to the Curriculum for Excellence principles and guidelines.
14. Support the management team with the formation, development and implementation of the School Improvement Plan and HETL Strategic Plan.
15. Contribute to our multi-disciplinary approach to working with children and their families, including contributing to children’s meetings, liaising with education and care colleagues, parents/carers and a range of other professionals to ensure coherent working and positive outcomes for children.
16. Responsible for the maintenance of Harmeny equipment and ensuring educational resources and spaces are maintained to an excellent standard.
17. Oversee and provide guidance to and direction of Education Support Workers and other support staff.
18. Where required, as a last resort, to be capable of implementing physical intervention techniques.
19. Attend supervision, training and other meetings, as required.
20. Be able to drive / transport children and staff to offsite activities, via minibus or other fleet vehicle.
21. Invest in your own Continuing Professional Development to ensure that the highest possible standards of professional practice are maintained, promoting your own efficacy and protecting Harmeny School’s respected place within special education in Scotland.
22. Undertake any other duties delegated by the Head of Education or other Senior Management team member, which are consistent with your role e.g. to provide absence cover for colleagues.
Skills, Knowledge, Qualifications and Experience
1. A professional qualification in Music Education and GTCS registration.
2. A passion and ‘can-do’ attitude for developing the confidence of children and young people, to perform to audiences, both within the school and in the wider community.
3. Recent, relevant and significant experience in teaching Music.
4. Experience of working with / knowledge of children with social, emotional and behavioural needs.
5. Good knowledge of the Curriculum for Excellence, current planning and assessment procedures.
6. Being committed to the attainment and achievement of the child and having the ability to create a motivating learning environment and programme of work, which take account of individual pupil needs.
7. A positive and supportive attitude to children and staff and the ability to provide guidance and direction to support staff.
8. Good organisational and administrative skills and competent in the use of ICT within learning and teaching.
9. Understanding of the practice issues of ‘physical intervention’ and to be capable of undertaking such physical intervention when, as a last resort, it is required.
10. Committed to Children’s Rights and participation of children and their families.
11. Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
12. Ability to be a good team member with an interest in whole school developments and the wider life of the school.
13. A desire to undertake further professional development and training.
Benefits
* A competitive salary of £33,594 to £50,589 per annum.
* Pension scheme.
* Policies and practices that promote health and wellbeing, including massage therapy, access to fitness equipment and a wellbeing space.
* We are highly committed to the professional development of all our staff and the post-holder will have access to comprehensive training and development.
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