Teacher of Music

About the job

Required from: ASAP or January 2022

Hours: 0.39FTE

The role:

If you are a well-qualified and enthusiastic Music Teacher who is passionate about making music with energetic and talented young people, this role offers a great opportunity for you to join our thriving and experienced team.  Ours is a dynamic and creative school with exceptional academic results, and an ambitious and wide-ranging programme of co-curricular performances.                                                       

Teaching across the 11-18 age group, you will play a key role providing an excellent education for all the school’s pupils by teaching with expertise and enthusiasm and offering support to the learning of individual students.

If you are passionate about teaching Music in this growing department, we would like to hear from you. Applications from NQTs are warmly welcomed.

Music at Oxford High School:

Walk into our Music School and you will instantly feel a warm encouraging atmosphere, see a lively academic approach to learning and hear our commitment to high performing standards. Our pupils enjoy success across a diverse range of instruments and ensembles. The teaching accommodation includes two music classrooms, ample practice rooms for individual tuition and a recital room which has recently been enhanced by the purchase of a Steinway Model B.  We also make full use of Oxford’s beautiful venues with regular concerts in the Sheldonian Theatre, university chapels and historic churches.

About Oxford High School:

Since its foundation over 140 years ago in the heart of Oxford's historic city centre, Oxford High School has been innovative and pioneering in its approach to girls' education.

Today, Oxford High School is a happy and vibrant place to work: our girls are highly motivated and ambitious, supportive yet self-aware. From our youngest Reception pupils through to our longest-serving members of staff, there is a real sense of pride at being part of the Oxford High community.

As well as our commitment to girls' education, we are committed to investing in our staff's personal development through training and learning initiatives and via the GDST network.

Benefits:

As part of the Girls' Day School Trust, the leading and largest group of independent girls' schools in the UK, we offer a variety of benefits, which include:

• Competitive salaries and pay progression
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Generous pension schemes
• Free life assurance benefit
• Free school lunches
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
• A Cycle to Work scheme
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment

For further details and to apply please click the apply button.

Closing date: Wednesday 1^st September 2021 at 9am

Interviews: Wednesday 8^th September 2021

The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.