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Music Lecturer

Application deadline
July 31, 2025 9:00 am
Department
Creative and Music
Employment type
Permanent
22.2 Hours per week 0.6 FTE
Location
Telford College - Wellington, Telford
Salary
££24,990
£17,489 - £24, 990 pro rata (Depending on Experience)
Reporting to
Potential interview date
From August 15, 2025
Vacancy reference
000
About the role

We have an exciting new vacancy arisen in our Creative Department for a part time Music Lecturer, here at Telford College.

The main purpose of this post is to deliver outstanding music provision to our full time learners, through an exceptional student experience leading to positive achievement outcomes.

You will be delivering and teaching music, music production and creative media (when required) on the BTEC level 2 & 3 courses, here at the Telford Campus.

Key Responsibilities
  • Deliver outstanding music provision to a wide range of full-time learners through an exceptional student experience leading to positive achievement outcomes.
  • We welcome applicants from a variety of specialist music backgrounds, but particularly encourage those with music production, live sound and audio/visual editing experience and qualifications.
  • Deliver and teach music/music production BTEC programmes to agreed success targets. Currently at level 2 and 3.
  • Deliver and teach creative media subjects if required, developing learners’ skills to reflect the modern and diverse creative industry, with a focus on audio/visual recording and editing skills.
  • Regularly review and monitor the attendance and progress of learners and follow up as required to ensure learners achieve their targets.
  • Carry out, collate and feedback initial and/or diagnostic assessments to identify students’ ILP and support as required, providing differentiated learning strategies to enable students to achieve their primary learning goal.
Skills, knowledge and expertise

Qualifications and training

  • Minimum 2:1 degree or equivalent (e.g. HND) in a Music related subject.
  • Successful experience of teaching in a relevant area. For Newly Qualified or less experienced teachers, ability and the drive to become an excellent teacher are essential attributes
  • Teaching qualification. Applications from newly qualified or experienced unqualified teachers will be considered.
  • Additional qualifications and/or higher degrees in the relevant area(s) are desirable but not essential

Skills and expertise

  • Teaching qualification. Applications from newly qualified or experienced unqualified teachers will be considered
  • Experience of using industry standard digital and analogue recording studio and live sound equipment
  • Confident, competent, and adaptable musician (ideally multi-instrumentalist) with demonstratable skills on either guitar, piano, drums, and/or as a vocalist.
How to Apply

We look forward to receiving your application and knowing more about your qualifications, skills, personal qualities and experience that you would bring to the role and to Telford College. Please take time to review the job description.

Please complete the online application form with details of your full employment history (since leaving school, including education, employment and voluntary work) including reasons for any gaps in employment. This should also include a statement of the personal qualities and experience you believe are relevant to your suitability for the post and how this meets the job description and person specification requirements. Your application form will be re-produced in a standard format by the system (without personal identifiers) to assist us in our anonymised shortlisting process.

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