Part Time Teacher of Music required from September 2024
St John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School
Medway
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 22 April 2024
Job overview
TEACHER OF MUSIC
Part-time; MPS/UPS
The Governing Board is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well-qualified part time teacher of Music from September 2024.
The successful candidate will be a Music specialist. They will model at least good teaching practice and will be able to engage and inspire students of all abilities both in and out of lessons. They will then extend the subject through all other year groups in the school, ultimately including A Level, while developing a vibrant and extensive extracurricular music programme which is presently in embryonic stages.
The successful candidate will be a strong practitioner and keen to play a proactive part in promoting the value of learning Music across the school. They will work closely with their team and the Head of the Creative and Performing Arts faculty as their line manager to deliver a challenging curriculum to engage and inspire students of all abilities both in and out of lessons. Initially responsible for managing the work of peripatetic Music teachers, they may be called upon to recruit and line manage another academic Music teacher as the department grows in future years. A bespoke CPD programme will be tailored to meeting their needs, including NPQ programmes as applicable.
St. John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School is a non-selective coeducational secondary school for students age 11-18. A single site school with free parking, we moved to world-class brand new buildings in the spring of 2023. This includes a suite of two dedicated Music classrooms and several collocated Music practice rooms.
Our mission statement is that ‘St. John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School inspires students, spiritually and educationally forming them through Faith so that they can achieve their aspirations and contribute to their community’. As a Catholic school, we are passionate about the formation of the whole student, making sure that we develop students into good people as well as ensure they get good results.
The school is in Rochester, Medway, a 30-minute distance from London by road or high-speed rail link. Medway benefits from a multimillion-pound regeneration programme bringing new housing developments and facilities for its inhabitants; it also has the lowest council tax rates in Kent.
We are happy to offer visits and informal discussions of the role: please contact Assistant Headteacher, (h.davies@stjohnfisher.school) for further information. No agencies please.
Closing date for applications: 9am on Monday 22nd April.
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 24th April.
Interviews will take place shortly after the closing date unless we receive suitable applications beforehand.
Shortlisted candidates only will be contacted for interview which will take place shortly after the deadline. St. John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School is an Equal Opportunities Employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all students. Any offer of appointment will be subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check will be required for all successful applicants
No agencies please.
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About St John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School
- St John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School
- City Way, Rochester
- Kent
- ME1 2FA
- United Kingdom
St. John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School has a proud history of educating our local Medway community. Established in 1964, we are the only Catholic secondary school in the local authority. One of seven secondary modern schools in the area, we are a diverse community, proud to educate Catholic students as well as those of other faiths and none.
Our students often refer to us as their second family, and it is a great place to work as a teacher. Our community of staff is incredibly supportive of each other, and our personalised CPD programme means that everyone’s career development is supported in a way that is specific to them. We are passionate about work-life balance, finishing lessons early on a Wednesday afternoon so that CPD and meetings can largely take place during normal school hours, and we provide counselling services free of charge to those who need them. In addition, our feedback policy asks that staff read student books and then get the class to respond collectively in the next lesson in purple pen, rather than requiring that every set of books be deep marked on a frequent basis.
The school has been on a trajectory of improvement since the appointment of the Headteacher, Dympna Lennon, in September 2016. This was recognised in our ‘Good’ Ofsted in May 2019, with inspectors commenting that ‘standards across the school have improved since the last inspection’ and ‘Teaching, learning and assessment are strong across subjects.’ We were proud to be recognised as an ‘Outstanding’ Catholic school in our 2021 Diocesan Inspection. SJF’s sixth form offers a wide range of academic and vocational qualifications. It has a comprehensive intake, ranging from students who are re-taking Level 2 qualifications all the way to those who are enrolled in our Oxbridge programme which helps students to reach the top universities.
Having been the recipient of a multimillion-pound grant from the Department for Education’s Priority Schools Building Programme, we moved into world-class, purpose-built facilities in Spring 2023. Situated at the top of City Way looking down across Rochester and the River Medway, the school is equipped with enviable sporting and academic facilities.
SJF undoubtedly has a proud history, but we are even more excited about the future. We hope that you’ll want to be part of it.
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