Peri Music Teacher - Guitar

About The Role

Location: Acton, West London - a five-minute walk from Acton Town tube station

Salary: £18 per 25-minute session

Contract: Temporary

Working hours: Initially 10 to 14 sessions over 1 day. 10 days each term.

Start date: January 2025

Opportunity for an exceptional candidate to help shape a new Ark secondary school in West London.

About the role:

We are looking to recruit an exceptional guitar teacher to join our team of peripatetic music teachers. The successful candidate will work with staff from our music department, ensuring that our guitarists remain at the heart of the music enrichment programme. The successful candidate will embed the school vision and support the development of an outstanding school that empowers our students to take responsibility and drive their own destinies.

Our peripatetic music programme is expanding to include the offer of paired and one-to-one guitar and bass guitar lessons to our Year 7 pupils. Alongside guitar teaching there may also be the opportunity to lead sessions with our school bands.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent playing skills
• Experience in teaching the Guitar at all levels
• An unwavering determination to deliver excellence for students from all starting points.

Benefits:

• We have a truly open-door culture where frequent low-stakes feedback is the norm.
• We value the input of all of our staff and collaborate to ensure the academy continues to improve as it expands.
• We frequently host teams of domestic and international educators who come to learn from us and help us shape our provision.
• Twice as many training days as standard
• Weekly staff training designed to meet the needs of the school
• Coaching for every teacher
• Protected co-planning time
• Access to high-quality, regular professional development

Find out more about the benefits of working for Ark here.

About Us

We are a new secondary school in Acton which opened in 2021. We will have 720 students in Years 7- 10 from September 2024 and will be launching our GCSE programmes for the first time.

Ark Soane seeks to redefine what is possible in education. Our model is "simplicity delivered expertly": by delivering an immaculately planned and highly academic curriculum exceptionally well; and by providing our students with a compelling aspiration-raising ethos we seek to transform the future of students in a highly deprived community.

Behaviour at Soane is exemplary enabling you to deliver exceptional lessons. Students are entirely bought-in to the values and ethos of the school and know that they are fortunate to attend a school where the quality of education is exceptional and where love, warmth, respect and the highest standards permeate every interaction. Students are a pleasure to teach and you can always expect a "thank you miss" when students leave your classroom.

Visit arksoane.org/jobs to learn more about us.

Diversity and inclusion:

We aim to build a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone - staff and students - can do their best work and achieve their full potential. We want to reflect and represent diverse perspectives across our organisation because we know that doing so will make us stronger and more effective. To know more about Ark's diversity and inclusion commitments, please click on this link.

Safeguarding statement:

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.

Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark's safer recruitment process, please click this link.

Please note we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this role may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. We strongly encourage to submit your application at your earliest convenience.