Assistant Director of Music

Bromley High School requires a talented and well qualified Assistant Director of Music to join our thriving Music Department on either a full-time or part-time basis.

As the Assistant Director of Music, you will have the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the activities of a flourishing Music Department, teaching from Year 7 through to A level. Collaborating closely with our Director of Music, you will help shape the future direction of our department, co-leading the curriculum throughout the senior school up to Oxbridge entrance standard and deputising where necessary.

The successful candidate will be an outstanding practising musician with sound subject knowledge, a track record of excellent teaching up to A level and the enthusiasm and creativity to engage all pupils in the subject. Your role will also extend beyond teaching as you actively contribute to the busy calendar of departmental activities.

Music at Bromley

The ‘All Steinway’ Music School is housed in purpose-built accommodation with 9 practice rooms, 2 large teaching rooms, an octagonal Recital Room and an iMac Music Technology Room. There are over twenty-five visiting teachers, offering tuition on piano, strings, woodwind, brass, percussion – orchestral and kit, guitar – acoustic and electric, voice, harp and recorder.

A variety of choirs and ensembles rehearse weekly – Orchestras, Bands, Choirs, Jazz Group, Rock Groups and Chamber Ensembles. A Music Festival held each year enables all musicians to compete for the prestigious Music of the Year Award and runs alongside a series of workshops delivered by professional players. As an ‘All Steinway School’ we have a complete fleet of Steinway pianos in addition to extending links with prominent pianists world-wide; we are the first and only all girls’ school in the world to have this status.

About Bromley High School

Bromley High School is a consistently oversubscribed, academically selective girls’ school with 900 pupils from 4-18, occupying a 25-acre parkland site in leafy Bickley, in Kent. In 2018, the school was recognised by ISI as a centre of excellence for training and development of new teachers. 

As part of the GDST, the UK’s leading network of independent girls’ schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:

·       Access to extensive professional development opportunities

·       Training grants for qualifications

·       Generous pension schemes

·       Free life assurance benefit

·       Free school lunches

·       A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools

·       Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans

·       A Cycle to Work scheme

·       Competitive terms and conditions of employment

·       Access to school multi-gym, swimming pool, yoga classes

For further details and to apply please click the apply button.

Applications must be received by: 8am on Monday 15th April 2024. 

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 17th April 2024.

Please note that early applications are encouraged, and the position may be closed sooner in the event of sufficient suitable applications being received.

The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.