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Graduate Music Assistant

Graduate Music Assistant

Bishop Wordsworth's School

Wiltshire

  • £12,550 per year
  • Quick apply
  • Expired
Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Apply by:
22 January 2023

Job overview

Bishop Wordsworth’s School seeks to appoint an enthusiastic and talented music graduate to join our thriving music department, this role is fixed-term until the end of the academic year (July 2023) with the possibility to extend. Whilst this position would suit a graduate who is an aspiring organist or a very competent pianist, we would like to hear from all musicians wishing to gain experience of working in our flourishing music department.  With ample opportunity to develop your skills and experience, the Graduate Music Assistant will be involved in assisting with the choir, orchestra and band, leading individual sessions, small groups and working alongside classroom teachers. Successful candidates will be expected to have a background in music and will have completed their specialist academic/performing degree. The successful candidate must have a natural rapport with young people, a personable and positive manner whilst a commitment to pursuing musical excellence is equally important.

Whether you are looking for experience in education, performing arts or considering a teaching career, this post is ideal for those who are looking for a professional experience before following a career within or outside of education. This role is an invaluable part of BWS life and the successful candidate will become actively involved in every aspect of school life supporting BWS co-curricular programmes both within and outside the music department, be this helping out on the sports field, with Saturday sporting fixtures, covering lessons for absent teachers, invigilating exams, accompanying trips and visits and contributing to the extra-curricular programme in areas where they feel they can bring something extra, be this music, sport, art or drama.

We will offer you:

·          Onsite accommodation in the historic Cathedral Close

·          Free breakfast and lunch in term time

·          Close links with Salisbury Cathedral

·          An established and thriving department

·          Local Government Pension Scheme

·          Cycle to work scheme

·          Use of onsite sport facilities and gym

For further details and an application form please visit the school website

http://www.bws-school.org.uk/The_School/Vacancies/. If you wish to have the opportunity of an informal discussion prior to submitting an application form, please contact Mrs Annie Lloyd-Gilmour (HR Manager) alg@bishopwordsworths.org.uk or Mr Lewis Edney (Director of Music) lde@bishopwordsworths.org.uk. Applications are accepted by post and email.

 

Bishop Wordsworth’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check as well as other relevant re-employment checks including satisfactory references and medical clearance.

 

 


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About Bishop Wordsworth's School

Bishop Wordsworth's School is a unique school in a unique place. Our founder, Bishop John Wordsworth intended that his school should provide a centre of academic excellence in the heart of Salisbury. Since 1890 Bishop’s has fulfilled that mission and today we educate 1,176 students aged between 11 and 18 and which include approximately 130 girls in our now fully co-ed sixth form. Under the shadow of the Cathedral spire our eclectic buildings span the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, reflecting the school’s heritage. This creates a very special atmosphere in which students are conscious, on a daily basis, of their part in a long tradition of academic endeavour.

The school has remained true to its founder’s traditions by following three basic aims:

•To encourage all our students to develop their potential to the full by setting themselves the highest standards of excellence and achievement;

•To develop in all our students the integrity and the means to face confidently the challenges of a fast changing world;

•To inspire all our students to lead happy, purposeful and responsible lives.

Bishop’s enjoys a hard earned reputation as one of the finest schools in the country. The school is well known for its traditions of excellence, its strong links with the Church of England and the Cathedral, and its sense of pride in the school community. It became an Academy School in March 2011, enhancing its reputation for independence and outstanding quality in education. 

Girls were welcomed to the Bishop’s Sixth Form from September 2020 and they now make up around 30% of the 400 Year 12 and 13 students that are on our roll. Standards are very high throughout, both in the curriculum and elsewhere and the young women and men of the sixth form provide outstanding leadership for the rest of the school.  Almost all of our students progress to the most competitive universities, with some also securing high calibre degree apprenticeship positions.

Boys take an 11+ selection test for admission to Bishop’s. Academic standards are very high and are duly recognized as such by OfSTED, DfE and the media, but excellence permeates all other areas of school life. School Sport is exceptionally strong, and the traditions in Music and Performing Arts are impressive. The school is characterised by a culture of challenging students to do their best while, at the same time, offering them the support that they need to do really well. Older students are asked to take leadership responsibilities and operate as role models and mentors for those in lower years.

We place great importance on delivering an all round education for all of our students.  Bishop’s enjoys an incomparable environment in the shadow of the highest cathedral spire in England, and many major school events take place in the Cathedral during the school year. Facilities for learning and teaching are already excellent, and further development of the school site continues.

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