Music Performance and Production Teacher
BSIX Brooke House Sixth Form College
Hackney, London
- Expired
- Salary:
- Spine Point 1-9 (Sixth Form College’s Pay Scale for Teachers)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Jan 2018
- Apply by:
- 15 October 2017
Job overview
“BSix describes itself as a ‘university for teachers’. While this is clearly a rhetorical claim, it is substantially borne out by the evidence presented to this research!”
UCL Institute of Education, March 2016
BSix is a comprehensive sixth form college set up in 2002 to raise achievement and standards in the area. We offer courses at all levels, from entry to advanced, and across a range of subject disciplines including Music Production & Performance and Creative Media as well as more traditional subjects.
A recent Investors in People assessment reaffirmed the College’s Gold status and the report strongly emphasised how the College is driven by its values. A recent Ofsted visit also acknowledged the progress that the College is making. “Overall achievement rates for all levels of learning have improved”.
The College is well-known in the education sector for its innovative approaches. There is much teacher-led discussion and sharing about teaching, learning and assessment. Our teachers and students are strongly committed to our comprehensive ethos and our belief that all young people are educable. BSix is therefore a rewarding, interesting and exciting place to work.
Music Performance and Production Teacher
A rare opportunity to join a dynamic and high achieving department within a unique comprehensive Sixth Form College. The Music Department has consistently achieved outstanding results and success rates over recent years and above the national average for high grades in Level 2 and 3 vocational programmes. The Department has been held up as an example of good practice in teaching and learning during all recent Ofsted visits to the college and also maintains the highest attendance. We are looking for someone to help continue the good work.
Our achievement is built upon providing a meaningful vocational experience for our students where writing, recording and performing music, running external events and learning about opportunities in the modern industry form the focus. We teach UAL music qualifications and an understanding of these would be desirable. We have a busy calendar of music events and expect some evenings to be given up to support this. We are an active department within the borough and music service and have strong links to secondary schools, providing workshops and undertaking visits in addition to normal teaching hours. Music staff are sometimes required to teach sound design units as part of Creative Media courses. We are an open and flexible department where dialogue between staff and students along with focused hard work dictate our outcomes.
Contract Type: Permanent
Contract Term: Full time
Salary from: £26,701- £42,128 inclusive of London weighting
Closing date: Midday on Monday 16th October 2017
Interview date: Friday 20th October 2017
Attached documents
About BSIX Brooke House Sixth Form College
- BSIX Brooke House Sixth Form College
- Kenninghall Road, Clapton
- London
- E5 8BP
- United Kingdom
BSix Sixth Form College: a brief overview for prospective job applicants
“The college is an asset to potential learners, providing educational opportunity for many students who have previously experienced disappointment” – Further Education Commissioner 2021
Thus the words of an October 2021 Stocktake Report from the Further Education Commissioner’s Office, acknowledging a host of improvements made by the college and its consolidation of a distinct niche amongst post-16 providers in Hackney and surrounding boroughs. This about a college which by the end of 2017 was struggling to justify its continued existence – buffeted by declining student numbers, beset by extreme financial pressures and reeling from a second successive ‘Requires improvement’ judgement by Ofsted inspectors.
The transformation, sealed by the securing of a ‘Good’ in our most recent inspection and the earning of a first prize in the Sixth Form Colleges’ Association’s 2023 awards for ‘Curriculum Innovation’, has required a major and united effort by college management and staff. Significant economies have been effected, the quality of teaching and learning raised and a new management ethos nurtured without any loss of morale or any deterioration in industrial relations.
There remains much to do if we are to consolidate the gains which have been made and to implement new strategies. Money remains tight, student retention and financial outcomes are not yet consistently strong and our reputation in some parts of the locality frequently lags behind the reality of what happens on the ground. Those tasks will be made more achievable if we can continue to augment our existing staff team with new injections of expertise, enthusiasm and openness to learning. Successfully appointing staff of the calibre we need is one of the very most important tasks we face.
If you would like to contribute to the improvement drive at BSix we would love to receive an application from you. The rewards awaiting successful applicants are considerable. As well as the fringe benefits listed elsewhere in this information pack, you will experience an institutional culture hugely supportive of professional learning and development. Management is ambitious but benign; communication is open and regular and there is a strong sense of institutional identity and common cause which transcends any differences between support staff and teachers, long-serving colleagues and recent recruits.
I look forward to receiving your application form and supporting letter stating why you are attracted to BSix and the qualities you can bring to its further growth. Should you want an informal discussion before committing to paper, please request one via our HR Manager, Claire Crook, at ccrook@bsix.ac.uk.
Kevin Watson.
Principal.
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