Visiting Music Tutor and Ensemble Leader (Drums)
Bedales School
Hampshire
- £41.77 per hour
- Expired
- Salary:
- £41.77 per hour (zero hour contract)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Casual
- Apply by:
- 31 August 2024
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an inspiring and enthusiastic Drum Teacher to join our thriving and successful Music Department at Bedales Prep School.
The ideal candidate will have highly effective teaching and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to inspire, empower and motivate pupils to engage. Essential to the post is a genuine commitment to putting pupils first and an enjoyment of working with young people.
Bedales Prep School is a unique educational establishment, renowned for its focus on the creative arts and its pupil-centred approach to learning; we look for teaching styles that will support and enhance this ethos.
Our aim is to create an environment where questioning, divergent thinking and freedom to learn from mistakes are all encouraged. Central to our success is the sense that each person is a member of our community whose voice is entitled to be heard and treated with respect. Both our staff and pupils expect of each other the best kind of relationships – co-operative, authentic and trustful.
Experience & Background
An inspirational and encouraging tutor, who can motivate students and encourage an ethos of listening and having a great time making music. The tutor would be working in an enthusiastic and passionate department lead by a team of professional musicians. We also regularly collaborate with the art, dance and drama department in an atmosphere of creativity and artistic vision. A team player with good communication skills, you will have an enthusiastic approach in all of your dealings with pupils, colleagues and parents.
Duties
- Enable the pupils to perform musically and to achieve their full potential in music examinations, competitions and concert performances as appropriate
- Facilitate one-to-one lessons and coaching ensembles.
- Carry out pupil assessments and provide written reports
- Completing any administrative tasks in relation to the post including recording missed lessons
This post is Regulated Activity.
Hours of Work
We can offer approximately 7.5 hours of 1-1 teaching work and 1 hour of ensemble coaching per week. There is some flexibility as to when the 1-1 tutoring can take place and applicants are invited to provide information on the days and hours of their availability as part of their application. However, the 1 hour of ensemble coaching is fixed to a Tuesday between the hours of 11.00 and 12.50am. 1-1 teaching can be arranged to fit around this.
Benefits
- Free on-site parking
- Funded healthcare cash plan
- Pension with Royal London
- Salary Extras benefits platform
- Lifeworks employee assistance programme
- Free lunch is provided during term time
- On-site nursery (subject to availability)
- Gymnasium & swimming pool
- Life assurance
- Personal accident cover
How to Apply
For further details on how to apply, please visit the recruitment portal on the Bedales Schools website via the Apply button.
Closing date: 9:00am on 31 August 2024.
Application reviews will be ongoing throughout and interviews will be held on a rolling basis.
Early application is advised as Bedales reserve the right to make an appointment at any stage of the application process.
Pre-Appointment Checks
All candidates will undergo a Safeguarding Suitability Interview and application for an Enhanced DBS and Barred List check and be asked to provide evidence they are eligible to work in the UK on an ongoing basis at the shortlist stage of the selection process.
Safeguarding Statement
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Candidates will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Prohibition from Teaching Checks, and Prohibition from Management Checks.
The safeguarding responsibilities of the post include:
- Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
- Fostering a culture of openness, safety, equality and protection
- Providing a safe and welcoming environment where both children and adults feel secure, able to talk and believe that they are being listened to
- Playing a key role in the prevention of harm and an equal responsibility to act on any suspicion or disclosure that may indicate a child is at risk of harm
- When concerned about the welfare of a pupil, acting in the best interests of the pupil
All staff have a key role to play in identifying concerns early and in providing help for children and are expected to act in accordance with the School’s Safeguarding & Child Protection Policies.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and the School is therefore permitted to ask job candidates to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
About Bedales School
Bedales School is an independent, co-educational, selective, day and boarding school for children aged 3-18. It is situated in Petersfield in Hampshire and there are 460 pupils on its roll. There are admission fees and scholarships and bursaries are available.
Bedales is a charitable trust and was founded in 1893 by J H Badley as a humane alternative to the authoritarian regimes of the late-Victorian public schools. Its founding ethos was, and still is, “Head, Hand and Heart.”
Headteacher
Will Goldsmith
Values and vision
The school prides itself on having a strong sense of belonging and it has five core aims for its pupils; to develop inquisitive thinkers with a love learning, to help develop talents through doing and making, to foster each individual and encourage initiative, creativity and appreciation of beauty, to ensure students, alumni, parents and staff take pride in the communities distinctiveness and to feel valued and nourished, and to foster interest beyond the school, with the community and to develop national and international awareness
ISI
“The School is extremely successful in achieving its aims. It is a mutual learning society, determined to maintain its momentum for continuous development. At all stages, students are well educated, and the quality of their achievement and learning is excellent. Students with SEND or EAL achieve well and make rapid progress through the excellent support they receive as their needs are carefully met. More able students and those with particular gifts or talents achieve suitably high standards in a variety of activities.”
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