Interview date: W/C Monday 24 February 2025
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and innovative Music Teacher to join our thriving Performing Arts team at Wilmslow High School. This post offers flexibility for teaching Music across Key Stages 3, 4 and 5.
Wilmslow High School has excellent links within the local community and with the Music Hub; and offers an extensive Arts Xtra Programme including instrumental and vocal ensembles and the successful applicant will play a key role in leading and facilitating in these extra-curricular projects.
Students’ participation in music throughout all Key Stages is very good and the school places a strong emphasis on music in the curriculum and in the wider life of the school. Students are encouraged to participate in all kinds of music at all levels and we are seeking an excellent classroom practitioner who will share this vision and ethos.
The successful candidate will:
* be an excellent teacher of Music across all Key Stages
* have a real passion for education and a deep-felt desire to make a difference for young people
* be able to lead instrumental and vocal ensembles
* show passion and commitment to contribute to the school’s extra-curricular music provision
* demonstrate the ability to organise and manage public and school performances such as musical theatre productions, seasonal concerts, assemblies, presentation evenings
* have the resolve and tenacity to make a real difference to the performance of students
If you would like to join a forward-thinking, research driven school, are committed and have the skills and tenacity to really make a difference for young people, we would welcome your application.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to respect this commitment. A consideration of the person’s suitability to work alongside children is part of the selection process.
If invited for an interview, you will be :
* asked to complete a self-declaration form answering questions in relation to any criminal record or other information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
* subject to an online search. This is to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which we may wish to explore at interview.
If successful, you will be subject to :
* an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
* pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, DBS and a Declaration that neither they nor anyone who lives in the same household is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.
Current or previous employers will be contacted, and information requested will include:
* disciplinary offences relating to children, including any for which the penalty is ‘time expired’.
* whether the applicant has been the subject of any child protection concerns.