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Junior Department Student Support
Hours
8 hours per week (Saturday 09:00 – 17:00) Term Time only (30 weeks per year)
Pay Rate
National Living Wage
Holiday
Based on accrual. Approx 3 days paid holiday per year.
Location
Barbican House + Dean Close Prep School
Reporting to
Operations Director
We are looking for a compassionate and empathetic individual to join our Music Academy in a student support role. This role focuses on providing emotional and well-being support to students, ensuring a positive, inclusive, and nurturing environment. The ideal candidate will help students navigate challenges related to their personal and musical growth.
Candidate Specification
Essential experience / skills- experience in a people-facing role
- accurate and confident written and verbal communications skills
- experience of working with children and young people
- Some understanding of music and music theory.
Essential attributes
- numerate
- driven by commitment to equal opportunities
- good self-motivation, time management and initiative
- flexible approach
- confident and articulate
- reliable, discrete and trustworthy
- good with children and young people
- experience in working with children with SEND.
Gloucestershire Academy of Music (GAM) is a charitable organisation which contracts over 50 music leaders per year to work with upwards of 2,000 children, young people and adults. We are a partner in GSW, our local music education hub and have a base close to the docks in central Gloucester.
This is an exciting time to join us as negotiations are underway to buy and/or develop our Gloucester base as a vibrant music and arts hub.
We play a leading role, with partners, in ensuring that music remains embedded in the fabric of families and society. We provide access to instrumental tuition, as well as development and progression opportunities for children, young people and adults through musicianship groups, infant and junior string, wind and brass groups and music theory tuition, as well as a pre-school Scutterbugs group.
We are growing a programme of wider community engagement (e.g. Gloucester Dementia Choir) and stage a number of uplifting annual events such as The Big String. GAM works with partners in GSW (music education hub) and others, such as The Flowers Band and Three Choirs Festival, to extend our reach and sector impact.
Gloucestershire Academy of Music is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff, and volunteers, to share the same commitment. Most of our positions are subject to an enhanced DBS check. Candidates should also be aware that online searches will be carried out as part of due diligence during the safer recruitment process.
