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Directorate: Children & Young People
Post Title:Head of Junior School Music, four days a week.
Commence date: January 2025
Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience
Closing Date: Friday 4th October 2024
Post details:
Would you like a chance to be part of something special at Westbourne School?
Westbourne is a leading school in the Yorkshire region, and the only co-educational independent school in Sheffield offering a first class education to Sheffield girls and boys from the age of 4 to 16.
The School is at an exciting crossroads in its history, with a new Head, and a recently completed £3m estates development project, including a new hall, three classrooms, changing rooms, facilities and a play area.
It's not just Westbourne's values of excellence, inclusion, respect and resilience that make Westbourne a special place to work. Westbourne is a family. Staff are motivated to go the extra mile in an environment that nurtures happy pupils to perform at their best. Westbourne's story is one of success with expansion and a state-of-the art new Junior School development. If you're a talented person who wants to be part of a bright new future for our school, we'd love to hear from you.
The role involves developing and delivering the curriculum for the Junior School Music department. The teacher is responsible for ensuring that students are meeting academic standards and achieving their learning goals. Overall, the purpose of a teacher is to ensure that the department is providing high-quality instruction, meeting academic standards, and contributing to the overall success of the school or educational institution.
Please refer to the Teaching Staff Job description when completing the application form and ensure you highlight which position you are applying for.
Safeguarding
Westbourne School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
All appointments are subject to satisfactory safeguarding checks, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. Please see (add link to new policy) for further details of the checks undertaken. Applicants should note that references are routinely requested prior to interview for all short listed candidates.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) and the school is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions, cautions and bind-overs (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Interviews will take place during the week commencing Monday 13th October 2024.

Westbourne School is a mixed, non-denominational, all-through independent school in South Yorkshire, serving students from the age of 4 -16. The all-through school, situated in Sheffield has approximately 350 students on record.
Westbourne School was founded in 1885 as a boys’ preparatory school. Girls joined In 1997, and a Senior School was opened in 2001.
Headmaster
Chris Hattam BA (Hons)
Values and vision
Westbourne School’s motto is: “Educating children for life”, and aims to provide an outstanding quality of education to all students. The school works to guide and prepare students for life in a stimulating and welcoming learning environment. Westbourne School promotes the values of excellence, respect and friendship and encourages children to care for others and their surroundings. The all-through school’s aim is to provide a varied and enriching learning curriculum to deliver students outstanding academic teaching, along with helping to develop their sporting, musical and personal development. Community is important to the school, who promote a solid partnership with parents to ensure that children receive the encouragement and support beyond the classroom. It is important to the school that students achieve their full potential and ensures that they are taught in small class sizes to identify their individual learning needs.
Independent School Inspectorate
“Throughout, pupils achieve well and make good progress in their learning, fulfilling the school’s aim to provide an education of quality and to prepare children for life. Pupils succeed in their academic work owing to their very positive attitudes to learning and the good teaching they receive at all ages.”