Portsmouth City Council
Music Subject Leader - Mayfield School
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Music Subject Leader
Salary information: M1 – UPS3 + TLR 2a/2b
Closing date: 02.10.2026
Start date: January 2027
Interview date: Flexible
Do you want a teaching career in a progressive school where children's learning is at the centre of everything you do? Are you dedicated to Music teaching and making a difference? Then this is the vacancy for you.
Overview
Mayfield School seeks to appoint an outstanding, dedicated, and creative Music Subject Leader from January 2027. Following our integration into the Trust, we are undertaking a rapid improvement journey and would like you to become part of our successful team.
What does Mayfield have to offer:
- A highly skilled, diverse, and driven team of committed employees who are dedicated to the education of children and their development into adulthood
- Employee Assistance Programme
- An exciting and supportive environment in which to work
- Supported development to meet your career aspirations
- Being part of an inclusive Trust across primary and secondary education
- Access to Blue Light card (subject to eligibility)
We are looking for someone who:
- Is engaged and has a desire to apply their knowledge and skills to Mayfield
- Has a supportive and one team work ethic
- Is positive with a can-do attitude
- Has a caring persona for those around them
- Takes notice of the details and observant of the little things
- Takes pride in their work
- Able to work term time
Our school is a very special place where pupils, staff, and governors work in a community where we aim to 'Believe. Achieve. Succeed.' every day. This is driven by our new set of shared values - Ambition, Inclusion, and Respect.
Mayfield School is at the heart of a thriving and diverse local community. We are one of the first single-site, all-through maintained schools in the country, which we believe provides us with a unique opportunity to improve and shape the lives of all students (Year R – Year 11) in our community. We strive for all students at Mayfield School to receive a high-quality education, in a safe environment where all children are valued, supported, inspired, and future ready. Mayfield prides itself on the positive relationships fostered, knowing every young person as an individual and challenging each of them to have the highest possible aspirations through our ambitious and inclusive curriculum.
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How to apply
Please go to our website: www.mayfield.portsmouth.sch.uk and complete the application form, and return to recruitment.mayfield@salterns.org.
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the vacancy if a suitable candidate is found.
Further information
If you would like to have an informal discussion about the role or would like to arrange a tour, please contact our HR Department on 02392 693432. If you require any special arrangements or assistance in completing the application form, please do contact the HR department.
Safeguarding
Mayfield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Some forms of employment, occupations, and professions are exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Working within a School is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
You are applying for a role that is eligible for an enhanced DBS check and access to the barred list and if shortlisted for interview you will be required to complete the relevant self-declaration and disclosure form and taking into account the offences that are protected or filtered declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020)
- If you have been barred from working with Children and/or Adults at risk
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The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands, and final warnings, and any other information held by local police that’s considered relevant to the role. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate.
The successful candidate will then be asked to complete an application for the relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check or if subscribed to the update service provide the necessary details to allow a check to be made. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
The filtering rules were updated on 28 November 2020 as follows:
- warnings, reprimands, and youth cautions will no longer be automatically disclosed on a DBS certificate
- the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than all being automatically disclosed
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