Head of Music and Performing Arts
Bolingbroke Academy
Wandsworth
- £32,960 - £53,341 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Ark Main Pay Scale to UPS + TLR 2b
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2022
- Apply by:
- 11 January 2022
Job overview
Head of Music and Performing Arts
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated teacher to develop their experience and lead an impressive team within our passionate and ever courageous community.
We are a courageous, compassionate community - empowering excellence. We are a value led organisation, being bold within every aspect of our lives at school.
We want all staff to thrive and model leadership and determination to the students and pupils within our rich and diverse community. We opened in 2012 with the vision to create a centre of excellence in the community.
We empower our teams by valuing the individual and ensuring personal development. This is delivered through weekly CPD sessions, frequent line management meetings and allowing staff to have their voice and develop their own ideas and projects. Our staff’s wellbeing is key to creating a friendly supportive community within the school. Guided by our internal wellbeing committee we have a wide range of initiatives designed to improve the motivation and lives of our staff.
The Role
As Head of Department in a music-specialist school, you will lead, develop and manage the effective delivery of an outstanding curriculum across Music provision, which enables the highest level of student progress and attainment from Key Stage 3 up to Key Stage 5. Bolingbroke’s unique music curriculum offers free group instrumental tuition to every pupil in Year 7 as well as an extensive peripatetic timetable, so as Head of Department you will work with the Lead Music Teacher to lead the professional community of peripatetic Music Tutors and promote outstanding teaching and learning and a strong school culture within a nurturing and rigorous environment. You will oversee a number of music events over the course of the year, including concerts on site and in local churches, the school production, as well as the opportunity to coordinate a number of more informal music events linking with the local community.
Reports to: Assistant Principal
Start date: April 2022
Salary: £32,960 to £53,341 (Ark MPS to UPS A1 to AUPR5) + TLR 2b £4,784
Closing Date: Tuesday 11th January 2022 at 8am
Link to Apply:
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Key Responsibilities
• Responsibility for all aspects of curricular and extra-curricular Music in school.
• Lead a vibrant and varied programme of extra-curricular musical activities within school to contribute to the wider school community
• Empower and develop the department team and peripatetic tutor provision to embed and extend an exceptional Music curriculum.
• Monitor, evaluate and continually improve the quality of planning, teaching and assessment.
• Lead the assessment process ensuring accurate measurement of subject standards in all year groups at all summative assessment points.
• Analyse student performance data and respond to the outcomes of assessment to ensure appropriate planning, teaching and interventions are in place to keep all pupils on track to achieve their targets.
Leadership and Management
• Lead the professional development of the Music team to be highly effective practitioners.
• Through regular observation and feedback, mentor subject teachers to ensure excellent teaching and learning in all lessons in line with academy expectations.
• Manage allocated budget effectively and stay within set budget allocation.
• Create and sustain a positive department culture, where teammates feel collectively supported and developed.
• Lead behaviour management in the department, securing strong routines for learning, consistent with the academy’s policy, and liaising with tutors and parents when necessary
• Develop strong partnerships and ensure regular communication with parents and carers
Teaching and learning
• Model excellent teaching and lead collaborative planning and development, including the sharing of resources and best practice within the department
• Be responsible for tracking student progress across the department, analysing all relevant data to make data-driven changes to the curriculum design and intervention strategies and using the data to monitor the performance of subject staff
• Be accountable for student progress in Music across the school at all key stages, ensuring that all students achieve results in line with, or better than, value-added predictions
• Monitor the work of the department through rigorous and regular lesson observations, and provide detailed, constructive feedback
• Lead joint practice development across subject teams, ensuring that outstanding practice is shared with all staff in the department and the wider school, and work with other department heads to exploit cross-year and cross-curricular links
• Plan, deliver, monitor and evaluate the curriculum provision and enrichment for all year groups within the Music department
• Monitor the identification of and provision for students with individual needs, and develop differentiated learning and teaching methods and schemes of learning
• Participate actively throughout the network by attending relevant meetings, and, as appropriate, delivering network-wide training and initiatives
• Work with colleagues, students and families to develop a strong school community
Person specification
Essential
• Degree in Music or related subject
• Mastery of and enthusiasm for Music
• Experience teaching Key Stage 3 and GCSE Music
• Demonstrable experience in managing behaviour and motivating children with a passion and belief in the potential of every pupil.
• Excellent interpersonal, planning and organisational skills
• Commitment to regular and ongoing professional development and training to establish outstanding classroom practice
Desirable
• Previous experience as a line manager
• Experience running regular school music ensembles
• Experience overseeing school music events
• Piano to at least grade 5
• Experience teaching A Level Music
• Experience teaching BTEC Level 3 Music Performance
Other
• Right to work in the UK
• Commitment to equality of opportunity and the safeguarding and welfare of all students
• Willingness to undertake training
• This post is subject to an enhanced DBS
About Bolingbroke Academy
Bolingbroke Academy
Although we are privileged and proud to be part of the wider Ark network with the ethos and benefits that come with it we have our own culture and values that is at the heart of all that we do.
We are a courageous, compassionate community – empowering excellence.
Training Opportunities
Our HR and Teaching and Learning teams are dedicated to offering the best development for all staff joining the academy, challenging and supporting staff to excel in their roles. In order to deliver exceptional training, we offer twice as many training days as standard. For teaching staff, we offer weekly CPD sessions which are held on a vast array of topics and run by many staff all showcasing their expertise. To develop the trainers, we ensure all sessions are reviewed retrospectively providing feedback and suggesting presentation and content improvements. We also offer weekly line management for everyone, additional coaching sessions for new and trainee staff and a more regular and developmental appraisal system.
Wellbeing and Inclusion
At Bolingbroke we value the individual and encourage difference. To achieve this, we start with inclusive recruiting practices. Starting from our job descriptions to blind recruiting, structured shortlisting and scoring we ensure that all employees applying are only measured against their skills, achievements and values. We want all our employees to have a voice, these can be heard through the wellbeing committee or diversity group. The Diversity Group promotes diversity within the curriculum, pupil’s school experience and for staff whilst the Wellbeing committee consists of representatives from all departments in the school and highlights issues concerning the staff and supporting in creating achievable and beneficial solutions. All staff are involved in co-planning meaning their input into the curriculum and teaching strategies are implemented. An employee will also have a 360 aspect to all appraisals ensuring peer review and employees to contribute to their managers appraisals. The school is dedicated to training and develop their leaders and staff on diversity and inclusion through a programme of CPD sessions and online training.
We recognise our outstanding talent through half termly staff voted awards and our annual Above and Beyond award.
Specialisms
Like all Ark academies, Bolingbroke Academy will specialise in mathematics. We also have a strong focus on music, which helps develop self-expression, self-discipline, performance and team work as well as building a strong sense of community through collective participation. Our aim is for every pupil to play an instrument confidently and to take part in regular performances.
Be part of a network
Joining our school means becoming part of a network of education experts who are all united by the same purpose - a commitment to making a difference where it matters most. You will have the opportunity to come together with your peers locally, nationally and sometimes even internationally, to share resources, learning and good practice. You'll also be supported to focus on what you do best. We are always looking for ways to take away additional pressures, to give you more freedom to concentrate on improving education outcomes for young people. We offer support beyond the classroom; from prioritising strong behaviour management strategies to giving you access to our award-winning data management platform.
Ofsted
Bolingbroke Academy was inspected by Ofsted in December 2013 and was graded as "good". Read the full report here. You can also read our short 2018 inspection report here.
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