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Graduate Performing Arts Assistant 36 hours per week, 34 weeks per year We are seeking to appoint a Graduate Performing Arts Assistant on a fixed term contract basis to join our team at Worth School in September 2025. This role is a fixed term contract for 1 year working 36.0 hours per week, term-time only. The successful applicant will provide support to the Music and Drama departments through assisting with department administration, marketing of events, supervision of pupils, assistance at evening events (for example with concerts and plays) and teaching assistant support in rehearsals and in KS3 lessons. Onsite accommodation may be provided to the successful candidate, subject to availability. As the Graduate Performing Arts Assistant, your responsibilities would include:

• Acting as the central point of contact for the Music and Drama departments for communications from parents, pupils, visiting Music staff, other staff and other schools.
• Ensuring effective communications of department events to parents and respond to routine emails and telephone queries.
• Dealing with routine administration of pupils' Music/LAMDA lessons and liaising with visiting Music/LAMDA staff.
• Managing the Department Database (using Furlong's Maestro software), used for collating timetables of Music/LAMDA lessons.
• Ensuring timetables of individual Music/LAMDA lessons are collated each week and sent out to pupils/parents/staff and posted on the Music department noticeboard.
What we are looking for:
• Qualification in music and/or drama (e.g. A-Levels/BTEC, HNC, HND, NVQ) (essential)
• Effective IT skills (essential)
• Demonstrable interest in drama and/or music (e.g. music or drama GCSE and/or A Level, music/drama experience) (essential)
• Interest in gaining experience working in a school environment(essential)
• Music and/or drama undergraduate degree (desirable)
• Experience of using Database software (desirable)
• Prior experience working in a school environment (desirable)
• Proficient keyboard player (desirable)
The School offers its own generous salary scale and an enhanced benefits scheme including an employee assistance programme, meal provision and enhanced pension contribution. Employees have access to our facilities and benefit from free parking, social events and discounted school fees. Worth is a highly successful co-educational, Catholic, Benedictine, 11-18 HMC boarding and day school of circa 650 pupils. It offers a broad curriculum, including the International Baccalaureate and A-levels in the Sixth Form. Applicants are required to apply online by using the Quick Apply button. Alternatively, an application form and job details are available from the HR Department Email: recruitment@worth.org.uk Telephone: 01342 710215 Closing date for applications: 31st May 2025
• We reserve the right to invite candidates for interview prior to the closing date and to close vacancies early if we have sufficient suitable applications. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to apply as soon as possible.
You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy; Worth School is not able to offer visa sponsorship. We are committed to the safeguarding of children, all employees must have the ability to understand and adhere to Child Protection and Safeguarding legislation. The role holders safeguarding responsibilities are set out in the job description. References may be taken prior to interview and DBS and other vetting checks will be conducted on the successful applicant. This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide 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. The MOJ's guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 Section 7(1)(a) states that it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.


• Qualification in music and/or drama (e.g. A-Levels/BTEC, HNC, HND, NVQ) (essential)
• Effective IT skills (essential)
• Demonstrable interest in drama and/or music (e.g. music or drama GCSE and/or A Level, music/drama experience) (essential)
• Interest in gaining experience working in a school environment(essential)
• Music and/or drama undergraduate degree (desirable)
• Experience of using Database software (desirable)
• Prior experience working in a school environment (desirable)
• Proficient keyboard player (desirable)
  
  The School offers its own generous salary scale and an enhanced benefits scheme including an employee assistance programme, meal provision and enhanced pension contribution. Employees have access to our facilities and benefit from free parking, social events and discounted school fees.