Teacher of Music

Teaching Vacancies; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A popular comprehensive school in Sheffield is seeking a dedicated educator to inspire and challenge young people. The successful candidate will be committed to improving literacy and numeracy strategies while fostering positive relationships with students, teachers, and parents. Our diverse school environment celebrates belief and culture, aiming for individual excellence. We provide robust support, ensuring all students achieve their potential. If you have the skills and experience needed to contribute to our mission, we look forward to your application.

Qualifications

• Ability and commitment to supporting both literacy and numeracy strategies.
• Capacity to manage the learning environment and student behaviour.

Responsibilities

• Provide care and support to break down barriers to learning.
• Demand high levels of progress and achievement from all students.

Skills

Capacity to motivate, inspire and challenge young people

Excellent communication, planning and organisational skills

Ability to inspire confidence and establish excellent relationships with pupils

Job description

Skills and experience

• Capacity to motivate, inspire and challenge young people
• Capacity to manage the learning environment and student behaviour in a manner, which is conducive to productive learning for all students
• Ability and commitment to supporting both literacy and numeracy strategies alongside their specialism/s
• Ability to inspire confidence in and establish excellent relationships with pupils, teachers and parents
• Excellent communication, planning and organisational skills
• Ability to effectively deploy a range of teaching and learning styles to suit the nature of the course content and the ability and attainments of students

What the school offers its staff

Dear Applicant,

Thank you for your interest in this role at our school. Handsworth Grange Community Sports College is a popular 11-16 comprehensive school located in the South East of Sheffield. Our mission is to provide an exceptional education for every student, every day.

To achieve our mission, we will:

• Provide a broad and balanced curriculum that challenges everyone.
• Provide care and support to break down barriers to learning.
• Improve our students\' vocabulary, comprehension and reading skills.
• Demand high levels of progress and achievement from all students.

Here at Handsworth Grange, we understand the power of education to transform lives, communities, and society. In everything we do we aspire to achieve individual and collective excellence through nurturing every student’s unique potential to make sure when they leave and enter the outside world, they are ready to succeed and make an invaluable contribution to the wider society.

We are fully inclusive and have a strong family ethos. Our student population is diverse, and we celebrate our beliefs and cultures which creates a rich, vibrant atmosphere. We have high expectations of everyone, staff, and students alike, and work hard to develop positive relationships to create a firm sense of togetherness. In doing so we promote the following values:

Together we:

• Be Brave
• Be Kind
• Be Present

We are currently working on a rapid improvement journey and are working collaboratively across the school and the wider Trust to make Handsworth Grange the number one school in Sheffield and the school of choice for both students and teachers.

We founded the Minerva Learning Trust; as a result, we work collaboratively and share best practice with other schools in the Trust and local area. As part of that role we work collaboratively and share best practice with other schools in the Trust.

Our students are approachable and friendly. Please come and see for yourself; we welcome visitors to the school.

If you believe you have the necessary skills and experience to join our organisation and help us achieve our mission then we look forward to receiving your application.

Suzy Mattock

Headteacher

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.