Teacher of Music
Consett Academy
Consett, County Durham
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS-UPS (£22,916 - £38,632 pa)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 11 March 2018
Job overview
New College Durham Academies Trust comprises of two large Academies, Consett Academy and North Durham Academy, located some six miles apart in North West Durham. New College Durham, is our lead sponsor and both Academies are located in multi million pound new builds, offering unrivalled state of the art facilities for our students and communities in Consett and Stanley.
This is an exciting time to join us. Consett Academy is growing, and for the right individual this role presents an unrivalled opportunity to make a real difference and a lasting contribution to our journey in becoming an outstanding provider of education. We are committed to lifelong learning and can provide a bespoke CPD package to support your professional development, whether you are starting out in your career, have the potential to expand into KS5 or simply looking for a greater teaching experience.
We can offer:
- A bespoke CPD package for all staff
- The chance to work in state of the art facilities
- An IPad/ICT Device for all teaching staff
- Additional staff benefits, i.e. tax free childcare voucher scheme, discounted membership rates at local leisure facilities.
- NQT’s - a bespoke training programme led by a member of the Senior Leadership Team
Teacher of Music Salary: MPS/UPS
Consett Academy is currently looking to appoint an energetic and talented Teacher of Music, to join a thriving and forward thinking Directorate of Sport, Art and Performance and in doing so, make a real difference to our students' learing experience.
You will have the ability to inspire students to enjoy 'The Arts', both inside and outside of the classroom and you should have the ability or potential to teach A level Music.
We are looking for a colleague who:
- Is consistently Good, with the potential to be Outstanding;
- Is able to raise students aspirations and attainment;
- Can plan engaging lessons and ensure the use of assessment is effective in securing student progress;
- Experienced in running rehearsals and other extra-curricular groups
- Is willing and able to contribute to extra-curricular activities;
- Has high expectations of their students
- Consistently models excellent practice and has student achievement and progress at the forefront of their teaching.
- Wants an exciting opportunity to work in an expanding, vibrant school that makes a difference to our young people’s lives.
To download an application pack, including job description, person specification and application form, please visit our websites: www.consett-academy.org.uk/vacancies
Want to arrange a visit or informal chat before deciding whether to apply? Just email Human Resources at HR@ncdat.org.uk and this can be arranged.
Please do not attach copies of CV's/qualification certificates. Only the information detailed on the application form will be used as part of the short-listing process. Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
Completed applications should be emailed to: HR@ncdat.org.uk by Midnight Sunday 11th March 2018.
Applicants should assume they have been unsuccessful if we have not contacted them within 28 days of the post-closing.
New College Durham Academies Trust is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and will undertake the appropriate employment checks to meet this commitment.
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About Consett Academy
About Us
Connect Multi-Academy Trust is an ambitious Multi Academy Trust based in North Durham. The trust currently has 3 large secondary schools and 5 primary schools.
Our schools are at the heart of their local communities and strive to deliver on our founding principles of Inclusion, Progression and Excellence which supports a central vision of ‘Students First’.
The principle of inclusion provides opportunities for students of all abilities, aspirations and backgrounds and involving staff, governors, students and the wider community in determining the direction of our Trust. Our curriculums are broad and challenging, with the academic success of students at the heart of what we do.
To encourage progression, our schools provides effective advice and guidance. This enables learners to make informed and appropriate decisions for future study and employment, encouraging them to take on new challenges and reach higher levels of achievement.
The focus on excellence underpins all we do whether in learning areas, working in the community or governing and leading our schools.
The Trust recognises that safeguarding our children and young people is core to all our activities, and we expect all staff, volunteers and wider stakeholders to share this commitment.
Our Aims are:
· To ensure our schools are centres of excellence with a focus on the nurture and achievement of all their members;
· To promote mutual support, encouragement and benefit between our academies;
· To develop, as the core foundation of academic achievement, a strong culture of professional development amongst our staff;
· To celebrate and maintain the unique identity of communities we serve with each school at the heart of its community;
· To recognise and enable all those who often remain invisible, through ethnic or cultural disadvantage, or through disability or poverty to achieve their full potential.
Welcome
It is an honour to welcome you to Consett Academy and to be able to share the success of our students with you. Whilst we strive to ensure that all students achieve their very best academically, we are convinced that it is crucial to offer students the opportunity to develop and grow into confident, resilient and exceptional young people.
In order to achieve this we aim for our students to develop moral integrity and become responsible global citizens who demonstrate tolerance and a strong sense of responsibility towards each other and to those beyond their immediate community.
The journey students embark upon at Consett Academy brings change, challenge and opportunity: the response to which goes a long way to determining the student’s quality of life upon leaving school. We strongly uphold that any success is due to the hard work and determination of students, staff and parents working collaboratively.
Consett Academy inspires excellence by its very nature, and we seek to fulfil the potential of all those involved in our unique and remarkable educational community.
Our Vision is to be ‘An inspirational learning hub that allows all students and colleagues to achieve all that they can; has an ethos that ignites a passion for learning, discovery and creativity and nurtures a moral code and self worth that stays with our young people all their lives’.
As an Academy our key priority is to drive up standards and transform the lives and aspirations of our students. We aim to be the first choice place of learning for students of all abilities living in Consett and the surrounding area. We are a self – evaluating Academy focused on continuous improvement in all areas. We put our ‘Students First’ in all that we do.
Tom Urwin,
Head Teacher
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