Graduate Music Assistant (Senior and Junior School)
Wells Cathedral School
Somerset
- Expired
- Salary:
- Currently £16,375 over a period of 11 months
- Job type:
- Full Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- September 2021 for one year
- Apply by:
- 9 July 2021
Job overview
Graduate Music Assistants are advanced performers who provide advice and coaching for our exceptional young musicians. To a certain degree, each role can be tailored to individual skills and future aspirations. The ability to assist with other musical disciplines, including piano accompaniment, theory, aural and accompaniment, is also an asset. Applicants should be prepared to work flexible hours, approximately 44 hours per week, term time plus 2 additional weeks (35 weeks p.a.).
There are two posts available, the senior post details are as outlined above. The Junior School post will focus on supporting our Head of Junior Music with accompanying, scheduling practice, theory and aural support for our young musicians and choristers and helping to organise the chaperoning rota for taking pupils to instrumental lessons across the site.
Any applications for the Junior School Graduate Music Assistant position, should include in their application details of their experience of working with children aged 4-11 and a short video (maximum 5 minutes) of a performance on the piano, (solo or accompanying role).
Any applications for the senior post should include a short video, (maximum 5 minutes) of a performance on their first instrument, this can be with or without accompaniment.
Accommodation is available. Where this is the case, a small charge (currently £100 per week) is made and this is deducted from the monthly salary.
It may be possible to combine the post with a residential post within a boarding house and this can be discussed further at the interview. Additional awards are available to residential staff.
For further details, please download an application pack from our website via the Apply button.
Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date and Wells Cathedral School reserves the rights to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made. Applicants are therefore encouraged to apply early.
Closing date for applications: Friday 9 July 2021 at noon
Interviews will be held the week commencing 26 July 2021
Wells Cathedral School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; applicants will undergo appropriate child protection screening including checks with past employers and an enhanced DBS check.
About Wells Cathedral School
Wells Cathedral School is a co-educational, Church of England, independent school offering day places to children aged 2-18 and boarding places to children aged 8-18. Based in Wells, Somerset, it currently has around 730 pupils. It is set up as a charitable trust and offers bursaries and scholarships., Wells Cathedral School is one of the oldest in Europe, with early records going back to 909 AD. In 1969 it became one of the first independent schools to accept girls. It provides an all-round education for its pupils and also, notably, incorporates a music specialist programme within the main school, making it one of five specialist music schools in the UK and the only one to offer such specialism within the context of an all-round education.
Head Master
Alastair Tighe
Vision and values
The School aims to ensure all its pupils develop as well-rounded individuals, who set themselves high standards, work equally hard at their academic and co-curricular studies, and who develop passions and interests which will propel through life beyond school. Founded on Christian values, Wells Cathedral School welcomes pupils of all faiths and promotes the values of integrity and social responsibility.
Wells Cathedral School is a specialist music school and prides itself on its international status and first-rate facilities.
ISI report
“Wells Cathedral School is successful in meeting its aim to encourage all pupils to strive for excellence with passion and integrity in a community which is welcoming and nurturing. Throughout the school, pupils develop an enthusiasm towards their learning, apply their knowledge confidently and articulately and achieve well academically. They work well cooperatively and independently, and are supported by good teaching. The well-balanced curriculum, complemented by a wide range of extra-curricular activities, enhances learning opportunities.”
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