Salary:
Highly Competitive Salary and Benefits, including membership of The Teachers Pension Scheme
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2025
Apply by:
1 February 2025
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an experienced and inspirational Head of Academic Music to lead the teaching and learning within the Music department, ensuring the quality is consistently excellent and ensuring that pupils achieve the best possible academic outcomes.
Music is a popular and thriving part of life at Hurst. The department is currently running OCR specifications at both GCSE and A level. Pupils have gone on from Hurst to Conservatoire study and taken up Choral Scholarships at several top universities.
The Music School is a positive, inclusive and encouraging environment, operating with excellent facilities, including 14 individual practice rooms, a Music Technology Suite, a recording studio, three larger specialist classroom teaching rooms, and a well-equipped recital hall. The Music School is attached to the new Dance Studio and the 350-seat professional theatre, the New Bury, where the Performing Arts departments regularly collaborate on a wide range of projects, including four full-scale musicals each academic year.
The successful candidate will have:
* Proven experience in leading a music department to excellent examination results at both GCSE and A level.
* The ability to lead others and instill a clear and effective pedagogical approach across the music department.
* A Bachelor’s Degree in Music.
* A genuine interest in ensuring every pupil reaches their potential.
The Head of Academic Music will work closely with the Head of Faculty and Deputy Head Academic in realizing the key academic aims of the College within Music.
If you are excited by this opportunity, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. Interviews will be conducted the week commencing 3rd February 2025.
Hurstpierpoint College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including an online presence and adverse media review, checks with past employers, and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
About Hurstpierpoint College
* Hurstpierpoint College
* College Lane, Hurstpierpoint
* Hassocks
* West Sussex
* BN6 9JS
* United Kingdom
+44 1273 833 636
The College comprises a Sixth Form, Senior School, Senior Prep, and Junior Prep with 1,300 pupils in all. Over half the pupils in the Senior School are boarders (weekly or flexi). Hurst is a significant medium-sized enterprise in Mid Sussex with around 480 employees and an annual turnover of £35 million pa.
What particularly strikes visitors to the College is the vibrant dynamic of our community. Situated within a 140-acre campus, surrounded by beautiful countryside, Hurst lies on the border of the South Downs National Park, close to the village of Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex.
This superb location is also just 20 minutes from the city and beaches of Brighton and Hove, whilst London train stations can be reached from Hassocks or Haywards Heath in under an hour. The central campus is thoughtfully laid out and planned with zones for the Academic, Co-Curricular, and Pastoral areas of school life. These all lie at the center of a superbly equipped broader campus.
Hurst has an excellent academic track record, and the vast majority of pupils go on to Russell Group universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, the various London Universities, as well as large numbers to Exeter, Bristol, and Durham.
Founded in 1849 by Nathanial Woodard, Hurst is a Church of England College. The Christian ethos underpins College life, but we are a diverse community; we welcome those of other faiths or no faith and pursue an inclusive approach in all that we do.
The College is a Co-Sponsor, together with the Diocese of Chichester, of the newly formed Hurst Education Trust, a local Multi Academy Trust. The Trust currently has four local primary schools, although it is envisaged it will grow over time.
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