Music Teacher

Harmeny Education Trust is a charitable organisation providing therapeutic care and education to children who have experienced early years trauma through abuse, neglect and family disruption, referred from all over Scotland. We currently work with children and young people aged 5-18, both on a day and all-year-round residential basis.

Our core service, Harmeny School, comprises:

· An education service, which includes an outdoor learning team.

· A care service, with five residential cottages and one day service cottage.

· Support services, made up of finance, estates, catering and domestic services, fundraising, IT, HR, learning and development, and admin teams.

We are seeking a Music Teacher with recent and significant experience of secondary teaching to join our outstanding Education Team on a full-time employed basis, working with children with complex additional support needs.

The successful candidate will work 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, from 8.30am to 4.30pm, exclusive of a daily unpaid lunch break of one hour.

Along with a creative approach to learning and teaching, you will demonstrate a working experience on the Curriculum for Experience through the Broad General Education and onto the Senior Phase. Our young people will require a bespoke approach to their learning and will require the teacher to understand their needs. The Music Teacher must be able to create an engaging and motivating learning environment.

Most importantly, we are looking for a Music Teacher who has an infectious enthusiasm for their subject with a drive and passion for supporting young people through to a positive destination. You will require to have the resilience to work with children who have social, emotional and behavioural needs in a nurturing, sensitive, caring way.

Three school closure days are allocated for additional learning and development required for the specialist therapeutic learning environment that Harmeny promotes. Applicants should be registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland. A driving licence allowing the use of our vehicles is essential.

The successful applicant will be placed appropriately on the current national scale between Point 0 (Probationer) - £33,594 per annum - and Point 5 - £50,589 per annum.

If you would like to find out more about this rewarding opportunity, please contact Mandy Shiel, Head of Education, on 0131 449 3938.