Assistant Progress Leader of Music MPS + TLR 3b

Bradford Forster Academy is an 11-16 Church of England secondary Academy and part of the Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust (BDAT), a growing Christian Multi-Academy Trust based in Bradford. The Academy opened on 1 September 2015 and now has 1033 students on roll in years 7-11. The school is forward-thinking, providing high quality CPD and there is an exciting opportunity to work across a variety of growing diverse schools within the Trust.

In order to further accelerate outcomes and continue to grow our talented staff team, we are currently seeking to appoint an outstanding Assistant Progress Leader of Music to join our successful and hardworking Creative Arts department. You will already be an outstanding teacher capable of delivering inspirational lessons and able to ensure that students within Music are appropriately challenged, supported and achieve their expected levels of progress or better.

Our Music teachers are supported by a Curriculum Leader of Technology and Creative Arts. This is a wonderful opportunity for a talented and ambitious professional to make a sustained and substantial contribution to the growth and development of the Academy. The role offers the successful candidate a challenge that will be both rewarding and fulfilling and will support you to achieve your own personal career goals and aspirations. We actively welcome applications from talented individuals who are looking to further develop their career.

The successful candidate will be:

• An excellent Teacher of Music and looking to develop your career in a teaching and learning role
• Able to encourage and enthuse students to achieve at least expected progress, with many exceeding this.
• Inspirational to colleagues and students – sharing best practice
• Ambitious, with a desire to work in a dynamic organization, which is determined to provide the highest quality of learning and achievement for its students.
• Able to monitor and evaluate the performance of students, significantly contributing to continuous improvement and enthuse students to achieve their full potential
• Committed to the ethos and culture of Bradford Forster Academy.

In return for your commitment we can offer:

• An academy and senior leadership team that will allow you to be inspirational, proactive and play an active part in our school improvement
• Tailored CPD with a strong commitment on developing individual career paths
• A Creative Arts department which welcomes new ideas with energy and enthusiasm
• An approach which supports and stimulates professional growth
• A supportive Leadership Team

If you are looking to join an academy with a culture of professional learning and reflection, then we want to hear from you. Visits to the academy are encouraged and can be arranged by contacting Stacey Read, at recruitment@bfa.bdat-academies.org . 

The closing date for applications is 12noon, Friday 9 December 2022.

Interviews will be held during w/c 12 December 2022.

For full details, application form with information pack, please visit our website

http://www.bradfordforsteracademy.co.uk/Vacancies/

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced criminal records check via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).