Overview
Job Advert. Make Music Musician, Families Programme — Role: Songbird Choir. Deadline for applications: 12pm, 5th November 2025. Reports to: Programme Leader, Early Years & Family. Location: The Glasshouse International Centre for Music. Working hours: Wednesdays, 9.45am – 10.45am. Salary: SCP 50 - £27.94 (+12.07% Holiday pay).
About The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
We’re a place where you can hear rock legends or pop icons on the same night as folk trios or opera singers. Where new musicians are nurtured and showcased on the same stages as platinum- selling performers. And where youth choirs and tambourine- shaking toddlers practice in the same spaces as our acclaimed orchestra Royal Northern Sinfonia. Whether you’re front of house, waiting in the wings or keeping things running behind the scenes you will be part of a team that means 2 million people enjoy top – notch gigs, concerts and classes in our own venue at Gateshead Quays, out in communities across the North-east and through live-streamed performances and digital lessons.
Make Music: Schools activities and events invite school groups into the building to experience exhilarating live music. In Big Sing and Big Sing for Mini Singers children aged 5-11 learn new songs and sing with a live band along with hundreds of other children their age. School groups are also welcome to explore our fantastic building and watch our Royal Northern Sinfonia rehearse.
The Glasshouse understands that people learn in different ways and have different musical interests. We have come up with ways of teaching music that support people’s personal development as well as musical, designed around the needs of the person learning. We have written this down in our Inclusive Music Making Guide and everything we do is based on that.
Songbird Choir
Come sing, share, and reconnect with yourself and other new mums. In this gentle, supportive space, you can make music, find friendship, and take a breath for you. Singing together can lift your mood, ease tension, and help you feel grounded, a beautiful way to nurture your postnatal wellbeing and reconnect with your sense of self. Every voice is welcome, no experience needed. Whether you sing softly or with gusto, you’ll be met with warmth and encouragement. You’re welcome to join us at any point in the term, there’s no pressure just an open, caring community. Babies (up to walking age) can snuggle, sway, and soak up the sounds, and older siblings are welcome to join the fun too.
We are looking for a musician to lead weekly sessions, help singers grow in confidence in a nurturing environment, and bring mums together for some feel-good singing.
Weekly sessions will take place on Wednesdays, 9.45am – 10.45am, at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music. Sessions take place in 10-week blocks, with a week’s break in the middle. The main purpose of this role is to lead the Songbird Choir, helping singers grow in confidence in a nurturing environment, and bring mums together for some feel-good singing. You will contribute to artistic design, content creation and planning of sessions and will attend meetings and training as required.
About you
Are you self-motivated, happy working in a team environment and flexible enough to adapt to a changing environment? If this sounds like you, read on to find out how you can hit the ground running.
Experience
* Singing to an advanced standard.
* Leading groups of adults and children of varying abilities and from a wide range of backgrounds including those with additional needs and/or disabilities.
* Leading with the focus on achieving personal, social, and musical outcomes.
* Leading music learning using a wide range of approaches and pedagogies.
* Developing and using inclusive music practices and pedagogy.
* Creating music resources to support activities and performances.
* Excellent organisational skills, including written communication skills and teamwork.
Skills and knowledge
* Safeguarding in education contexts.
* Community music and musical inclusion.
* The social and personal reasons why people experience barriers to learning.
* The historical origins and social context of the songs and music being used.
* Current policy and plans related to musical inclusion and music education.
* Experience of supporting people with post-natal depression.
Main duties and responsibilities
Strategy and Plans
* Keep up to date with The Glasshouse policies and plans.
* Maintain an understanding of the needs of young people and adults alongside the barriers they might experience.
Evaluation and Reporting
* Contribute to the evaluation and monitoring of programme performance where required.
* Support and contribute to consultation with families as required.
Programme (artistic)
* Keep up to date with current developments in relation to your own performance practice, specialist education and learning practice.
* Develop and lead high-quality inclusive music learning activities, performances, events, rehearsals, recordings and resources as agreed.
* Lead exemplary practice in inclusive group singing.
* Support the development and maintenance of excellent and inclusive music practice, social and musical pedagogies.
* Work with colleagues to remove barriers to engagement and make sure music learning activities meet a range of different needs, interests, and contexts.
Programme (operational)
* Attend team and organisational meetings as agreed.
* Understand and work in line with operational handbooks and guidelines.
Marketing and Comms
* Work with the Programme Leader to support effective recruitment of singers.
Health and Safety and safeguarding
* Accept individual responsibility for reading, understanding and working in line with Health & Safeguarding, Equality and Diversity, Dignity at Work and other policies with the Trust.
General
* Advocate for North Music Trust and specifically the Make Music programme.
* Undertake other duties appropriate to the post and in line with the needs of the organisation.
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Application process
Closing date for applications: 5th November 2025. Interview date: 12th November 2025. For questions about the role or the application process, please contact Isabella, People Coordinator at recruitment@theglasshouseicm.org.
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