Head of Music (0.7) - St Michael's Middle School

St Michael's CE Middle School is looking for a Teacher - Head of Music to join our fantastic team. Could this be you?

Actual Salary £22,155 - £34,358.80 per annum (M1 to UP3).

This job is part time - term time only for 885.5 hours (1265 hours FTE). 

It is offered on a permanent  basis.

Approximate start date 01-Sep-2025.

We are looking for an experienced practitioner to join our staff team and lead our highly successful Music Department.

The school has an excellent reputation within the community for the quality and breadth of musical experiences offered to pupils. These include in-school concerts showcasing curriculum work, services in local places of worship (including a Christmas service at Wimborne Minster), regular singing in collective worship, a wide range of extra-curricular clubs, and strong involvement in community events.

The successful candidate will:

• Lead a small team of teachers in delivering an inspiring and challenging music curriculum
  

• Be committed to maintaining the school’s strong musical reputation
  

• Contribute to centralised planning and curriculum development at a Trust level
  

Our school is well equipped for music, with three fully-equipped music pods located within the school grounds.

This is an exciting opportunity to build on solid foundations and ensure that music remains a central and vibrant part of pupils’ learning.

 A clean driving licence and your own transport is essential for travel across the Trust’s multiple sites and schools.

Please refer to the attached job description for more details about the role.  

If you have any further questions, please contact the recruiting manager Clair Haynes on 01202 883433 or by emailing [email protected]

Close vacancy on 14th May Midday

Interviews week beginning 19th May

St Michael's Middle School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines. 

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

The school will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.

Founded in 1971 St Michael’s Middle School is a Church of England school set in stunning grounds in Colehill, on the outskirts of Wimborne Minster, Dorset. With around 600 pupils, our school covers year groups 5-8 (ages 9 to 13) and is consistently oversubscribed on first choice applications.

Middle schools have the advantage of being able to blend together the best parts of primary school teaching with subject specialist teachers and facilities. Pupils study a full breadth of subjects over their four years at the school. Our facilities include science laboratories, product design and cooking workshops, specialist music rooms, ICT suites and PE facilities, including an indoor swimming pool.

We are also proud to offer a wide range of clubs and activities. Each year there are activity weeks, with both residential and day trips available to the pupils. Our school benefits from a strong relationship with the wider community, with local businesses helping deliver our careers provision and charitable groups working with some of our more vulnerable pupils.

St Michael’s achieves high standards and has a robust self-review procedure to explore ways of maintaining and improving these standards. We do not, however, believe in change for change for change’s sake, so we constantly challenge ourselves first with the question, “Is this going to be better for our pupils?’. 

We have had our efforts recognised by Ofsted 2024, graded as a good school ,and by SIAMS who judged the school ‘excellent’ in 2019. We have also achieved a number of awards including the Platinum Level School Games Award, the National Music Mark and accreditation as an Eco-School. 

For more information please visit our school website:  https://www.stmichaelsmiddle.org/

We welcome visits to our school - if you would like to arrange a visit or require more information, please refer to the contact details above.

Initio Learning Trust offers a welcoming and supportive environment and can provide:

• a genuine commitment to supporting professional development

• a supportive and flexible working environment which offers equal opportunities for all

• free onsite parking

• access to the local government or teachers pension scheme 

• a range of employee benefits including Cycle to Work and Health Cash Plan