Musician in Residence
Old Swinford Hospital
Dudley
- Expired
- Salary:
- The salary for a full academic year is £12,500 plus accommodation and meals.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 4th September 2023
- Apply by:
- 19 April 2023
Job overview
Old Swinford Services Limited seeks to appoint a Musician in Residence who has a genuine interest in music education at all levels. They must be a music graduate and demonstrate the necessary skills to contribute to the work of the Music Department. Piano accompanying skills are desirable but not essential.
The Musician in Residence shall also assist the Housemaster with boarding duties and responsibilities.
The position is fixed term starting from Monday 4th September 2023 and lasting no longer than to 12th July 2024.
Welcome to OSH
Old Swinford Hospital is one of the country’s leading state boarding schools. A large number of the School’s students are boarders who come from a wide range of backgrounds in the UK and also from the EU and overseas. A third of our pupils are day pupils, who usually go home after lessons, unless they are involved in sport or music, CCF or DofE. The School is now on an exciting journey to become fully co-educational by 2025. Girls joined in September 2021 in Year 7, whilst the Sixth Form has been mixed since 2004.
OSH looks and feels like a very British school. It is inclusive, tolerant and welcoming. The atmosphere is calm and orderly, and it is also very relaxed because for many of our pupils their school is also their home.
Parents, pupils and staff are all on the same side and our pupils want to learn before going out into the wider world and making their own contribution to it.
We have had two very favourable Ofsted visits, one for boarding and one for curriculum. You can see these via our website www.oshsch.com
We enjoy a very good academic reputation and regularly feature in the lists of the most academically successful maintained schools. We’re not about league tables, however. We pride ourselves on developing in our pupils a balance of academic achievement, character and resilience. Our extensive extra-curricular programme contributes to our pupils becoming happy, healthy and interested young people, for whom sport, music, art, drama, outdoor pursuits and DofE feature in their everyday lives.
A major building programme has recently been completed which includes a large extension to an already impressive sports centre, an all-weather floodlit sports pitch, a new teaching block with a specialist arts room, a performing arts centre and a new senior boarding house. Other recent developments include a new off-site sports ground and a new food technology centre. From September 2021, university style teaching accommodation has enhanced and extended our campus in a new block, ‘Swinford Court’.
Music at OSH
The Music Department at Old Swinford is a large and thriving one. It is housed in an independent Music School, Hanbury House, which has a well-equipped ICT suite, recital room and practice rooms.
The music curriculum involves every lower school pupil in practical musical activities, with many opportunities to use ICT. There are strong numbers of pupils both in GCSE and A level option groups, and academic standards are very high, with about 1/2 of all Music students moving on to degree level courses at Universities, Conservatoires and Colleges of Music each year. The department also has an active programme of liaison work with local primary and secondary schools.
The Director of Music oversees the work of the school visiting instrumental and vocal teachers, and some 30% of the students in the school have a lesson each week. There is a wide range of extracurricular groups, including Concert Band, Big Band, Choir, Chamber Choir and a number of smaller chamber ensembles. There is a full annual programme of concerts both in the school and the local community. In July 2005 the Choir, Concert Band and Swing Band spent 8 days giving concerts in and around Venice, including St Mark’s Cathedral, and further tours have taken place to Barcelona in July 2007 and 2013, Salzburg in July 2010, Berlin in July 2011, Cologne in July 2017 and Paris in July 2019. We look forward to our 2023 Summer Tour to Lake Garda.
Full details and an application form can be obtained from our school website:
Closing date: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Old Swinford Services Limited is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants are required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.
About Old Swinford Hospital
Old Swinford Hospital is a voluntary-aided state boarding, aged 11 - 18 years.
We are a Church of England school and pleased to welcome children of any faith or, indeed, none at all. We want the very best for all of them because we believe that they all have exciting potential and an important contribution to make.
The School has a long history. It was founded under the name Stourbridge Hospital by industrialist Thomas Foley in 1667, in order to teach boys the skills and attributes to become responsible citizens – an aim that still applies in the 21st century.
Headmaster
Paul Kilbride
Values and vision
Old Swinford’s message to its pupils is “Discover who you can be”. It encourages students to embrace themselves as individuals and develop their own strengths. The school atmosphere is diverse and tolerant, welcoming children of all faiths and none to contribute to its happy and vibrant environment.
Ofsted reports
Ofsted January 2022:
Pupils learn together, live together and thrive at Old Swinford Hospital. Pupils behave well. They are polite, respectful and studious. Pupils know that staff expect them to work hard and do their best. In lessons, they listen to their teachers and work together productively and collaboratively. Pupils’ academic and wider study prepares them for life after school.
To view our most recent Ofsted report click here
And Ofsted boarding July 2022:
Outcomes for children who use the boarding provision are outstanding. Children make excellent and sustained progress in many areas of their lives. Children learn to become more responsible, to be trusted to be self-disciplined and commit to the daily routines of boarding life. Their experiences contribute to a marked improvement in confidence, social skills and independence, which will be a strong benefit for later life.
To view our most recent Ofsted Boarding report click here.
You can find out more about Old Swinford Hospital and its community at www.oshsch.com
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