Music Teacher

Part Time (0.4) | West Moors Middle School

Salary: Main Pay Scale (MPS) / Upper Pay Scale (UPS) – dependent on experience

Start date: February 2026 (after half-term)

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated, and highly motivated Music Teacher to join our hardworking, friendly, and supportive team at West Moors Middle School. This is a part time position working 2 days per week on a Thursday and Friday.

West Moors Middle is a thriving and successful school with strong links to its community. The successful candidate will have experience of teaching across Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3, with a passion for ensuring that every child flourishes academically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually.

As a 'Good' school (Ofsted, 2022) with high aspirations, we are proud to be a Rights Respecting School, offering a nurturing, inclusive, and forward-thinking environment. We value professional growth and will support you to develop your teaching practice, expand your whole-school impact, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of our pupils.

If you are an inspiring teacher who believes in helping every child reach their full potential — and you're ready to contribute to a positive, caring school community — we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for a person who:

• is an enthusiastic and dynamic classroom practitioner with a strong commitment to high quality teaching and learning
• is sensitive to the needs of children and their families and is keen to build on our close relationships with parents/ carers and the local community
• enjoys working as part of a small and friendly team and build positive relationships
• is fully committed to enabling all children to become caring, respectful and happy individuals with enquiring minds and a thirst for learning
• has high expectations of pupil achievement and behaviour
• is flexible, hard-working, committed, can manage their time effectively and able to use their own initiative
• has excellent organisational skills

In return we can offer:

• inspiring children who are enthusiastic, hard-working, and are keen to learn
• a child centered school community with an ethos of caring and respect for all
• a supportive and friendly staff team
• professional development opportunities, building on your previous skills and experience
• dedicated PPA time
• the chance to join a team who care about our children and who are committed to continuous improvement
• a child centered working environment within a small village school

West Moors Middle School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.

The salary quoted is the annual salary for the position at the time of advert. The salary will be paid in equal monthly instalments and will be adjusted at the start of employment and again if leaving part way through the school year to ensure the correct salary is received for the work completed in an academic year.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ's guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

West Moors Middle School will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.