Teacher of Music

About the role:  Are you a practising musician who would like to share your passion? Longfield Academy have a rare and exciting opportunity to appoint an innovative and enthusiastic colleague, dedicated to giving our students an outstanding Music education.  We have a strong, thriving Performing Arts department and the successful candidate will be passionate about their subject, committed to academic excellence and have the ability to motivate, support and enthuse our students. You will join an established, successful department with a forward-thinking, dedicated team who achieve excellent results – your input is key to ensuring this trend continues.  A passion for this subject is essential as is a willingness to collaborate with other colleagues across the wider Arts subjects. 

In addition to teaching at Key Stage 3, we offer qualifications for both Key Stage 4 and 5 and are one of the most successful departments in the Academy for results.  In addition, we have a history of outstanding whole academy productions, including in recent years “Our House” “Footloose” and “We will Rock You”.  It is hoped that the successful candidate will be part of this proud tradition.

Recent Ofsted success!  Longfield Academy have been rated Good with an Outstanding Sixth Form provision in our very recent Ofsted inspection; a fantastic accolade which is very well-deserved.  Click here to read the full report.

Due to the time restraints at this time of year, we will be interviewing on a rolling basis which may be held before the closing date - we therefore encourage early applications.  Once an appointment is made, the advert will be closed.  If you would like clarification on the vacancy, please contact the Talent Team on 01634 412 240 / talent@latrust.org.uk

What we expect of you:  We want to hear from dynamic individuals able to take the initiative as well as work as part of a well organised and collaborative team.  We want you to be relentless in your pursuit of progress for each and every one of your students so that they can achieve the outcomes they deserve and grow into young adults that will positively contribute to their communities.  Part of this is instilling pride in the work they do and encouraging their individuality and personality whilst respecting others.

Our successful candidate will be a fantastic teacher, able to successfully plan and deliver inspiring Music lessons on a daily basis that both challenge our students and significantly advance their learning.  We anticipate you will achieve this by being passionate about your subject and transferring your knowledge in a creative and efficient way both to your students and to your team.

Working at Longfield Academy:  Longfield Academy offers a friendly and supportive working environment with innovation and collaboration at the heart of everything we do.  Following our most recent inspection (2018), it has been confirmed that Longfield Academy continues to provide strong educational outcomes for students.  Leaders of the Academy are highly ambitious for all of the students but also that we do not limit that ambition to the outcomes of public examinations - our students being prepared for life is equally as important to everyone at the Academy. The relationships that students have with the staff has been identified as a key reason that our academy thrives. Our Post 16 provision continues to go from strength to strength, rated in the top 10% for Kent.

Diversity at our core:  As a Trust we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals we all bring something unique to the role regardless of age, gender, race, beliefs or disabilities which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise.  ​As a Trust we feel it is important to hire for the right attitude which is why we look for teachers that are enthusiastic, focused and resilient to the day to day pressures that teaching brings. 

The academy is committed to safeguarding children and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. Our commitment to safeguarding is underpinned by robust processes and checks which are in place across the Trust.