Trainee Teacher of Music

Are you degree-educated with school teaching experience?

Are you passionate about your subject and making a difference to children’s lives?

Would you like to earn a salary whilst training to teach?

Harris Federation employment-based routes to teaching are designed to offer current school employees and people with experience of teaching the opportunity to training to teach whilst earning a salary. Your programme will be delivered by Harris Initial Teacher Training and you will benefit from:

• Outstanding course that leads to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS);
• Weekly Core Training days at Harris Academy Bermondsey with your fellow Trainees;
• Tailored, subject-specific training across the year with our specialist Federation sub consultant teams;
• Personalised mentoring and a strong support network;
• Two placements in contrasting schools.

You will be employed on a fixed-term contract from 1st July 2022 to 31st August 2024.

Please feel free to contact a member of the Harris Initial Teacher Education team for a friendly chat, advice and how to join our next group of outstanding trainee teachers. Call 0208 253 7758 or email info@harrisschooldirect.com.

About Us

Harris Boys’ Academy East Dulwich opened in September 2009 and is part of the Outstanding Harris Federation. Our vision is clear: nothing is impossible and everything is possible, irrespective of personal characteristics or background. Every problem has a solution. We believe we are more robust, resilient and determined as a team than as a group of individuals. We support, challenge and hold each other to account at all levels within the academy to ensure that our students achieve their potential, are motivated, engaged and fully prepared for life beyond our academy. The academy’s specialisms are Enterprise and Sport with a ‘can-do’ ethos of always improving upon your personal best.  The Academy will accommodate 750 boys when full. Harris Boys' benefits from a state-of-the-art purpose-built building with the very latest facilities and equipment. The Academy offers a co-educational Post 16 with the nearby Harris Girls' Academy, together comprising capacity for 400 Sixth Formers. Harris Boys' was judged to be an outstanding school by Ofsted in December 2011.

Academy Ethos

We encourage our students to be critical thinkers and promote these skills throughout the curriculum. A student at Harris Boys' Academy will learn how to engage critically with foreign affairs, religion and society, issues of citizenship and the media, so they acquire the skills, and recognise the value of, thinking for yourself and thinking in a well-reasoned manner.

“We are very lucky to have an amazing staff team who work together, and what you get from this is an inertia of this body of professionals who are striving to be the very best they can be. It is down to these two points – staff who are on board, who want to change futures and want to be better at what they do, and students who buy into this idea of ‘I’m at school because I can make myself a better person and I can flourish in life.’ When you have these two points together, which is what we have worked very hard to obtain, then you can make wonderful things happen. And that’s shown through our outcomes and is also shown through if you’ve ever had a chance to speak to the boys and the parents of this school community.” Peter Groves, Principal

Main Areas of Responsibility

As a trainee teacher, you will be teaching in your main placement academy and honing your craft in the classroom whilst learning from expert colleagues. You will spend one day a week at Core Training where you will learn theories and strategies to implement in your teaching practice.

Your mentor, colleagues and HITE Tutor will support you every step of the way, so that you complete your employment-based training programme feeling confident and well-prepared for a successful career in teaching.

We offer a strong support network and exciting environment in which to train to ensure that our trainee teachers leave the course feeling supported, confident and well-prepared. Our provision has been graded as Outstanding by OFSTED.

During July you will take part in an induction process, getting to know your employing school, pupils and policies. You will also take part in the Harris Initial Teacher Education Summer School. You will begin teaching in September and start the weekly Core Training sessions.

Throughout the year you will be working towards gaining your Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) qualification. On application, we will discuss the possible completion of the Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE).

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will have:

• An undergraduate degree, minimum 2:2.
• GCSE maths, English (and Science) Level 4 or Grade C and above
• Experience of teaching or working in schools.
• A desire to make a difference to the lives of young people
• Passionate about your subject knowledge.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Next Steps

If you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact us via e-mail info@harrisschooldirect.com , or call 0208 253 7758 to arrange a conversation.

Before applying, please download the Job Pack for full details on the job description and person specification. You will need to refer to this when completing your application.

Your application must contain:

• A full CV documenting your qualifications and full work history (including all work experience)
• A personal statement which will explain why you want to be a teacher and detail how you are suitable for the role as set out in the job description and person specification. This should be approximately 1000 words
• Details of 2 referees with professional email addresses.

Suitable referees could include:

• your university tutor or supervisor
• your current line manager at work
• your previous employer
• a head teacher at a school where you work or volunteer
• a supplier or client you’ve worked with (if you’re self-employed)

Referees should not be family members, partners or friends.

It’s important to have at least one academic or professional reference.

Please note – following application, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Safeguarding Notice

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Before applying, please review our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.

Equal Opportunities

The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

As a provider of employment and education, we value the diversity of our staff and students, and all our staff are equally valued and respected. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.