Unqualified Teacher - Music Specialist (Five Ways Primary School)

Unqualified Teacher - Music Specialist - Part Time/Temporary - 3 days per week for 1 year. Start Date 1st September 2026 until 31st August 2027.

Your Opportunity:

This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate and dedicated individual with experience in Primary Education and a specialist in music. This role offers an excellent pathway for career progression towards gaining QTS if this is your long-term aim. Our school values effective learning and strives to inspire our pupils to achieve their best. As part of our energetic and welcoming team, you will enthuse and motivate pupils through the power of music, while maintaining a healthy learning environment for all children within the school. In return for your hard work, we offer excellent CPD opportunities and the support of a strong, collaborative team.

The successful candidate will:

• have experience in Primary Education as a Learning Assistant, HLTA, or Cover Supervisor, with a specialism in music.
• be able to work well as part of a collaborative team, as well as being self-motivated and able to work independently.
• be someone who is willing and committed to developing and sharing outstanding teaching practice in music across the primary age range from Year 1 to Year 6.
• be someone with the ability to enthuse and engage pupils in purposeful learning experiences through music.
• be passionate about children's learning and welfare.
• be a values-led individual with high expectations of achievement and behaviour in themselves and others.
• be someone who is committed to personal career progression and enhancement.

We can offer:

• a warm, supportive and friendly school community.
• pupils who are happy, enthusiastic and enjoy learning.
• If you are successful in gaining a position as an unqualified music teacher at Five Ways, we can offer you a high level of continuing professional development and support, as well as a purpose designed music room to deliver your music lessons in.

This is an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with colleagues across Five Ways, to share expertise and experience, ensuring all children at our school receive an excellent education and reach their potential in music and in all other curriculum areas.

Please read the Job Description and Person Specification for more information before applying.

Closing Date: Monday 6th July 2026 at 12:00 noon

Interviews: Friday 10th July 2026.

Please do not apply via our website, this option is not available.  Please complete the application form and return via email to 'LBuck@fiveways.staffs.sch.uk'.

Candidates who are shortlisted will be contacted by telephone or e-mail.  References will be sought for all shortlisted candidates prior to interview.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and appointments will be subject to rigorous safeguarding and mandatory pre-employment checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education including enhanced DBS, and for shortlisted candidates, references and online search checks. The postholder must share our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. It is an offence to apply for this role if barred from engaging in regulating activity relevant to children.

The post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means 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. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted will be asked to complete a self-declaration prior to interview to confirm any (non-protected) criminal disclosures or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.

We aim to recruit the very best staff and welcome those from all backgrounds, communities and faiths. Five Ways Primary School is clear about its responsibilities in embracing diversity and ensuring we recruit people of a high calibre based on their skills, abilities, and experience. As such, we welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates.