Lead Teacher of Music - Maternity Cover (with the potential to become permanent)

Co-op Academies; Leeds; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused educational institution in Leeds is looking for a passionate Lead Teacher of Music to inspire students. You will implement an engaging curriculum and model professional behaviours while fostering a nurturing environment. This role offers various benefits including a colleague discount card and flexible benefits. Join us to make a meaningful impact!

Benefits

10% discount in Co-op Food stores

Flexible benefits package

Discounted gym membership

Competitive Credit Union rates

Qualifications

• Passion for music to inspire students.
• Experience in implementing knowledge-rich curriculums.
• Ability to model exceptional professional behaviours.

Responsibilities

• Implement and deliver a curriculum for music.
• Lead a team in creating a vibrant learning environment.
• Model and promote the academy's vision and values.

Skills

Strong organisational skills

Ability to collaborate effectively

Initiative and resilience

Education

Relevant teaching qualifications

Job description

Lead Teacher of Music - Maternity Cover (with the potential to become permanent)

Join our vibrant school community as a Lead Teacher of Music, where your passion for music can inspire the next generation of musicians and creative thinkers! At Co-op Academy Leeds, we believe in the power of music to enrich lives and foster creativity. We are excited to welcome a passionate Music Teacher to join our dedicated team.

As a Lead Teacher of Music, you will help to implement and deliver an exciting, knowledge-rich curriculum that is thoughtfully sequenced and is informed by expert subject knowledge and the latest educational research.

At the top of your game, you’ll have great behaviours, strong organisational skills, the ability to collaborate effectively, and be able to work constructively as part of a team. How and why you do things matters greatly to us, as does your ability to use your initiative, work independently and be resilient.

You’ll do all this while capturing the spirit of our vision and values and role-modelling exceptional professional behaviours.

Why us?

At Co-op Academy Leeds, We pride ourselves on being a welcoming, nurturing and diverse community. Our commitment is to provide an ambitious and inspirational education that enables our young people to achieve exceptional outcomes.

Our academy offers a broad range of exciting opportunities both inside and outside the classroom, preparing students for their futures and ensuring they grow into compassionate and responsible citizens.

As a proud member of the Co-op Academies Trust, the 'Ways of Being' are woven into every aspect of our academy and our wider community. We set high expectations for our staff and students, cultivating a culture built on mutual trust and respect. Our respectful, calm, and productive environment is a place where everyone can thrive and enjoy working and learning together.”

All our values are based upon the values of the Co-op Group, which will inform our behaviours.

Self-help: We do not expect to be spoon fed – we will try to do things for ourselves in the right way and at the right time.

Self-responsibility: Everyone should act in a responsible way around the academy site and in the local community. We take responsibility for our own learning; we want to become independent learners.

Equality: We are proud to be part of a very multicultural academy, with students from all over the world; it is important that we treat each other with respect and accept that others may be different from ourselves. We should all of us have equal chances to succeed.

Equity: We want to look for the best in each other. Rewarding others fairly to encourage all types of achievement.

Democracy: We will contribute our ideas to make the academy a success.

Solidarity: We can achieve more by working together, rather than as individuals.

Our Values

Being part of the Co-operative Group, we are both guided and driven by the Co-op values which are embedded in everything that we do within our Academy - We strive to demonstrate the following ethical values in everything we do - they are our ‘Ways of Being’:

Succeed together

Do what matters most

Be yourself, always

Show you care

So, if you believe in our values, we would love to hear from you!

We offer a wide range of benefits and rewards to recognise the part you play in our success

Benefits include:

Our employee benefits package includes:

• You’ll get being a Co-op member, you’ll get a Co-op colleague discount card. This gives you a 10% discount in our Co-op Food stores.
• Co-operative flexible benefits (discounted line rental and broadband package, family care advice and cycle to work scheme)
• Discounted gym membership and leisure activities which includes discounts on Merlin Entertainments (Sea Life, Legoland etc), Virgin Experience Days, SuperBreak and many more!
• Co-operative Credit Union: save directly from your salary and receive a competitive dividend. Borrowers can benefit from very competitive interest rates & terms (in comparison with other high street lenders)