Teaching Assistant - Music

Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Assisting teachers with the delivery of music lessons, including supporting in break out lessons.• Supervising, assisting, and setting up for clubs, ensembles and rehearsals. • Setting up performance spaces for concerts. • Sing or play in music ensembles if appropriate. • Designing and printing promotional material for performances. • Assisting pupils with the preparation of specific pieces of work such as Music GCSE coursework and performances. • Assisting with filming of examination submissions and co-curricular events.

Administrative Support

• Assisting the Head of Music with administrative and logistical tasks. • Setting up music tuition payment items on the school’s parent payment system, ParentMail. • Regularly monitoring ParentMail to track incoming payments and maintaining accurate and up-todate records of payments received and outstanding balances. • Act as the primary point of contact regarding queries and payment schedules. • Proactively identify overdue payments and settle balances following the school’s procedures.

Support for the School

• Contribute to the overall ethos, work and aims of the school • Show a willingness to support whole school activities when required • Appreciate and support the role of other professionals • Attend relevant meetings as required • Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required • Assist with the supervision of pupils out of lesson times, including before and after school • Accompany teaching staff and pupils on visits, trips and out of school activities as required • To be fully aware of the principles of safeguarding as they apply to vulnerable adults in relation to the worker’s role • To ensure that the worker’s line manager is made aware and kept fully informed of any concerns which the worker may have in relation to safeguarding and/or child protection. • Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person

Safeguarding and Inclusion

• To comply with policies and procedures relating to Child Protection, Health & Safety, security, confidentiality and data protection and to ensure that the individual’s line manager is made aware and kept fully informed of any concerns which the individual may have in relation to safeguarding and/or child protection. • To be fully aware of and understand the duties and responsibilities arising from the Children’s Act 2004 and Working Together in relation to child protection and safeguarding children and young people as this applies to the individual’s role within the organisation.

Continuing Professional Development

• To be reflective of own practice and identify appropriate training for self-development • To willingly participate and commit to the school’s on-going wider learning programme including specialist training in safeguarding of children and young people.