Visiting Teacher of Cello (maternity cover)

About the job

Reporting to: Director of Music

General Job Description

Lancing College requires all its employees to have a high standard of behaviour and integrity, when undertaking duties and when in contact with pupils, parents, fellow employees and visitors alike.

The post of Visiting Music Teacher involves working in occupied premises, both in classrooms and boarding house locations. Therefore, an awareness of the working environment and the people in it are essential. This is particularly important concerning appropriate behaviour towards children, and health and safety awareness for the individual worker, and other third parties, including fellow workers.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced teachers to join a strong and successful Visiting Music Team, within a thriving Music Department.

Person specification

Essential

• Experienced teacher of individual music lessons

• Professional performing experience with appropriate qualifications

• Excellent organisation skills

• Sense of humour and ability to get on well with Music School colleagues

• Caring personality

Desirable

• Experienced teacher of beginners and advanced pupils

• Experienced rehearsal and workshop leader

Duties

• Teaching individual cello lessons

• Preparing pupils for internal and external exams, performances, competitions and auditions

• Coaching for occasional activities, such as ensemble music at Lancing College including chamber music

• Teaching from beginner level to Grade 8 and beyond

Job

This is an hourly paid position, for which the post-holder will be employed.

The College cannot guarantee a fixed number of teaching hours and the number of pupils would initially be small, but the Music Department expects this to grow. In addition, there is the likelihood of coaching and other musical activities.

The post-holder will be expected to deliver a minimum of thirty individual lessons per pupil in each academic year and may be invited to take on other duties, as outlined above, on an occasional or regular basis, depending on the needs of the College.

The post-holder will be expected to write termly reports on individual pupils and on pupils playing in ensembles under their direction, manage their own timetables with the support of the Music Administrator, maintain lesson record sheets, and report absences from lessons and rehearsals.

Terms & Conditions

• All appointments are subject to Safer Recruitment guidelines, DBS check and Health Checks.

• Your hours of work will be as and when agreed and are not guaranteed.

• Holiday entitlement to a pro rata amount of 4 weeks paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) per year pro-rated based on the number of lessons taught. For clarification this holiday pay entitlement is already included within the lesson rate and should be taken during school holiday periods

Applications

Applications should be made using the application form which is available from the College website by clicking the apply button above and returned to hr@lancing.org.uk .