Music Teacher | Community School | Derby

CORE PURPOSE

We require an ambitious, musically versatile Music Teacher to deliver high-quality practical, theoretical, and historical music instruction across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. The role involves managing a vibrant department, cultivating technical performance skills across diverse instrumentation, and embedding rigorous compositional and analytical standards.

KEY TASKS & DAILY OPERATIONS

• Curriculum Design & Instruction: Plan, resource, and deliver highly engaging music lessons across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, balancing musicology, performance technique, and digital composition.

• Examination Preparation: Lead Key Stage 4 cohorts systematically through terminal GCSE Music or vocational technical awards (such as BTEC Tech Awards in Music Practice), ensuring complete syllabus coverage across composition and appraisal portfolios.

• Ensemble & Co-Curricular Direction: Direct, coordinate, and scale the school’s co-curricular music programs, including choirs, concert bands, and specialized modern ensembles, culminating in high-profile school concerts and community showcase events.

• Peripatetic Coordination: Manage and schedule the school's team of visiting peripatetic instrumental tutors, tracking student attendance, grading progressions, and external examination entries (such as ABRSM or Rockshool).

• Pastoral Care Integration: Undertake full form tutor responsibilities, executing daily registration, auditing attendance profiles, and facilitating structured personal development sessions.

ENVIRONMENT & STRUCTURE

• Community School Framework: Operating under the local authority Community School framework, our institution sits at the absolute heart of its neighborhood, providing an inclusive, comprehensively structured learning environment dedicated to broad community equity and accessible creative education.

• Behavior Systems: The campus implements highly consistent, school-wide behavior routines that maintain a quiet, respectful, and orderly atmosphere, ensuring music classrooms and practice suites remain focused, productive, and respectful acoustic environments.

PROFILE REQUIREMENTS

• Qualifications: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or an equivalent recognized teaching credential, paired with a strong honors degree in Music, Music Performance, or a closely related creative discipline.

• Practical Versatility: Advanced proficiency in at least one primary instrument or voice, alongside a strong functional capability in keyboard/piano skills to accompany and demonstrate complex concepts effectively within a classroom setting.

• Production Literacy: Practical working knowledge of modern classroom music technology and notation software (such as Cubase, GarageBand, or Sibelius) to guide contemporary digital composition.

REGIONAL CONTEXT

• Industrial Engineering Capital: Based in Derby, the school benefits from operating within a city internationally recognized for its advanced technological innovation and manufacturing heritage, fostering a local community that deeply values precision, dedication, and technical craft.

• Connectivity: The location offers premier East Midlands transport infrastructure, with rapid access via the A38, A52, and M1 corridors, alongside comprehensive local bus networks and direct East Midlands Railway links connecting straight into Nottingham and London St Pancras.

APPLICATION INTAKE

Please submit your current CV to begin the application process.