Music Teacher

Music Teacher

Location: Barnsley

Salary: £26,950 - £42,920 dependant on experience.

Closing date: Wednesday 20 October 2021 at 9am

Interviews: Friday, 22nd October 2021

About the role:

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Music Teacher to join our successful department. This is an exciting time to join the academy under new leadership and following our recent 2020 Ofsted ‘Good’ rating. Our recent exam results have highlighted significant and sustained improvements over the last five years.

We will only consider candidates who can positively contribute in our journey to become an ‘outstanding’ school. We are looking for either experienced applicants who are able evidence a strong track record of student success or newly qualified teachers who have the potential to make a significant impact on the lives and education of the children they teach. This will need to be demonstrated in your application and be clearly evident at interview.

What we can offer you:

• An academy making rapid, sustained improvement.
• Excellent facilities and resources.
• Access to an outstanding professional development program.
• A chance to become part of one of the largest groups of academies in the country.
• Caring, dedicated and friendly students who want to learn and fulfil their potential.
• Colleagues who are supportive, friendly and who are committed to each other’s professional development.
• Opportunities to be creative and to inspire your students.

In return, we are looking for:

• An ‘outstanding’ teacher with strong leadership qualities who can evidence significant progress and attainment from their students over a protracted period of time.
• Someone who shares our moral purpose of ensuring that all of our young people receive the best education possible in a supportive environment from people who care about them.
• Someone who is resilient, dynamic and passionate about improving the life chances of all children in our community.

If you possess these qualities and share the academy’s vision, then we will be delighted to hear from you. Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further information.

About the School:

• A United Learning Academy.
• We are an ambitious Academy with a focus on continuous improvement, OFSTED rated the academy ‘Good’ in every aspect of our provision during the Inspection in January 2020, ensuring that each and every student is supported and encouraged to achieve their very best.
• There are high expectations for behaviour and learning established resulting in a calm and purposeful environment.

Barnsley Academy is part of United Learning, a large and growing group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. Schools within United Learning work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. By collecting expertise and combining resources, we help to make the tough job of teaching a little easier. With a shared curriculum and lesson plans from around the group available to all, our teachers have strong foundations to lead the engaging, rounded education our children deserve. Our intranet site, United Hub, is just one example of how we share this resource and communicate across sites, helping to simplify processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance. We reward our staff: with wide career opportunities – between Primary and Secondary, Academy and Independent – better pay, benefits, and ultimately the satisfaction of helping every child at each of our schools to succeed and reach their full potential.

Barnsley Academy is committed to safeguarding the welfare of its students and the successful appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

Applicants are encouraged to visit the Academy before applying, to organise a visit please email Karen Jones, HR Coordinator at karen.jones@barnsley-academy.org

United Learning values diversity and inclusion and is committed to creating and sustaining a more diverse workforce. We welcome applications from professionals of minority ethnic origin and from majority ethnic professionals who share our commitment to inclusion and diversity. We will be applying the Rooney Rule to the shortlisting process.

To Apply

Please apply online by clicking on the following link: https://unitedlearning.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/2402624?cid=1567&rsid=0&js=0&LinkType=1&FromSearch=False

Where teaching is better shared

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