Location: Acton, West London - a five-minute walk from Acton Town tube station
Salary: GBP18 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 you to submit your application at your earliest convenience.
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