What skills and experience we're looking for
To plan and teach a broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum within a designated subject area(s) such that all students are included, challenged and supported, and so that all can progress and achieve.
To monitor, review and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher and as a pastoral tutor.
To seek to inspire in students, as teacher and tutor, a love of learning and to foster imagination, creativity, confidence, independence and respect for others.
To share and support the school’s ethos of faith, vision and nurture and to commit to the highest standards of achievement and personal growth and development for students.
* mind, body and soul.
* To develop a vocational Music course
* The post holder will be directly responsible for the Music department and be accountable for the department’s results
* To teach Music across all 3 key stages To line manage the lead for Drama Credentials & Personal Qualities: As the successful candidate, you would be joining a very close-knit, highly supportive family.
We are looking for a head of music teacher who is an outstanding communicator and has the ability to meet deadlines/manage time and holds relevant experience of teaching music in a comprehensive school.
What the school offers its staff
The Governors of St Hilda’s wish to appoint a qualified and knowledgeable Head of Music to work within our music department. St Hilda’s, which is situated on the edge of Sefton Park in South Liverpool, is a welcoming and supportive community.
We have high expectations of behaviour and there are excellent relationships between staff and students, based on mutual respect.
St Hilda’s is a high-performing, over-subscribed comprehensive school with a Sixth Form.
In 2021, Ofsted judged the school to be Good and in 2025, our SIAMS inspection found that St Hilda’s Church of England High School is living up to its foundation as a Church school and is enabling pupils and adults to flourish.
The report highlighted "St Hilda’s biblically rooted Christian vision is the cornerstone and lifeblood of this school family."
It is strongly proclaimed and confidently embraced, sustaining and nourishing the school’s work and mission.
Along with its compelling Christian values, the vision drives this exceptional school.
Diversity and difference are embraced, giving dignity and allowing this community to live well together.
Pupils are highly respectful and supportive, enabling them to appreciate and support one another to be who they are." We are unashamedly a Christian school.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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