Teacher of Music - Leith Academy

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Teacher of Music - Fixed term until 30/5/2025
Leith Academy

Salary: £32,217 - £48,516 per year
Hours: 22.35 Per week, Monday - Wednesday

A part-time teacher of Music is required to join our enthusiastic and thriving music department of 2 teachers and 9 IMS Instructors until the end of May 2025. We excel in providing opportunities for young people to become confident and successful individuals. Our growing music department allows pupils the opportunity to study Music up to Advanced Higher level and the chance to study Music Technology. The S1-S6 curriculum is supplemented by an extensive programme of extra curricular opportunities, celebrating musical achievements and linking with the wider life of the faculty and the school.

Applications are invited from enthusiastic professionals who have the vision and energy to sustain and promote the current standard of achievement and ensure the continued development and progress of the subject within the school.

Find out more about our school and the work we do – www.leith.edin.sch.uk

Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions of Service for Teaching Staff in School Education.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

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