Hertfordshire Music Service Team Value Proposition
Some employers call this an Employee Value Proposition. At Hertfordshire Music Service, we call it a Team Value Proposition, because the strength of our team allows us to offer all colleagues an outstanding work and employment experience. We explain it all below – read on!
The Hertfordshire Music Service Team Value Proposition comprises of four core elements: Purpose, Values & Culture, Remuneration & Benefits (Reward), Professional & Career Development, Work-Life Balance & Flexibility.
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Purpose, Values, and Culture
Our purpose is special – it guides and drives us. We improve lives by creating musical learning opportunities of all kinds, nurturing and growing happiness and confidence. The prospect of improving lives, every day, by sharing our passion for musical learning, and creating happy and confident learners is what we get out of bed every morning for – we refer to it as Create, Learn & Grow for short. What are you waiting for? Come Create, Learn and Grow with us!
Our values are a golden thread, running across everything we do. We are:
- people focussed
- inclusive
- delivering outcomes, and impact
- environmentally and financially sustainable
- curious
- fair
These six fundamental value principles mean everything to us, and as individuals, teams, and an organisation, we will never behave in a way that contradicts our values.
Our culture is one of supportive innovation, development, and progression. As a Music Service we strive to develop and offer an inclusive array of musical learning opportunities and experiences, to reach more learners and musically enrich their lives. This is Create, Learn & Grow in action, and our team are the beating heart of this.
We encourage innovation, create a safe and supportive environment for idea and product development and support our colleagues to grow, personally and professionally along the way.
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We value the knowledge, skills, expertise, and professionalism of our team. We know reward in education isn’t always about money, but it’s important to us that our pay and benefits fairly reward our hard working and high performing team.
HMS Teacher colleagues are employed to the HMS Pay and Conditions of employment. Teacher salaries range from between £25,603 and £33,804 per annum (pro rata). We have a clear career progression pathway, and joining our Lead Teacher management team will result in pay progression to £35,060 per annum. Further career development options are available, and career progression to our Development Lead management team will result in pay progression to between £36,323 and £37,325. Further opportunities to progress your career and salary beyond this are also available, outside of the HMS Pay and Conditions of employment.
Your reward package is not just about your employment today though, it also offers you a more financially secure future in the form of a pension. The Teachers Pension Scheme is currently attached to the HMS Pay and Conditions of employment and offers significant value to colleague members. A TPS contribution of 28.68% of annual salary is paid by us, the employer. This means for example, a full-time colleague with an entry-level starting salary of £25,603 who joins the pension scheme, realises an additional benefit of over £7,300 in annual employer pension contributions. This makes the total remuneration and benefits package worth nearly £33,000 at entry level.
Other benefits of working with us include:
- green car salary sacrifice scheme
- childcare vouchers
- christmas savings club
- shopping discounts (at over 800 retailers!)
- personal support and wellbeing services
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Being curious and creative is baked into who we are. Learning and professionally developing because of this approach to work means that opportunities to develop your knowledge, skills and experience at HMS are everywhere.
Through a comprehensive annual programme of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) activities, and a supportive contractual CPD time allocation, the HMS team is encouraged and supported to be curious and creative, learn and grow.
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Working with learners is a demanding job – if you’re not on the road or in the classroom, you’re updating records or responding to emails. No one aspect of the job is less important or demanding. We know this, and we appreciate that you do too. With that in mind, work-life balance is important to us.
We have a great people management structure at HMS, and you can expect regular opportunities to check in with your people manager and to talk to them about your workload, and if you want to, about how you are doing more generally too. We take an empathetic approach to work and our people. We will listen and where we can, we will make reasonable adjustments to support you through times in your life where a supportive employer can make a big difference. If you need to talk to us, we will always listen.
If you have any questions or comments about the Hertfordshire Music Service Team Value Proposition, please contact our in-house HR team at: MusicHR@Hertfordshire.gov.uk
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Instrumental / Vocal Teacher
Salary Range:
- HMS Main Pay Scale Teacher Range - £30,442 p/a to £35,480 p/a
- HMS Entry Teacher Rate - £26,872 p/a
Closing Date: Friday 6th March (applications received after this date will also be considered).
Thank you for your interest in joining our team.
To meet increasing demand across the county, Hertfordshire Music Service is currently seeking to expand its pool of inspiring instrumental / vocal music teachers in the following areas and instruments:
Localised Areas
- East Herts – Whole Class (First Access) violin teacher with the opportunity to teach violin & piano individual lessons.
And
- East Herts – Whole Class (First Access) guitar and ukulele teacher with also the opportunity to teach individual guitar lessons.
What Are We Looking For?
We are currently seeking vibrant music tutors to use their experience and professional expertise to change the lives of children through music. Appointments will be made with a minimum number of hours, but we encourage and support all new teachers to expand and grow this work.
Why Join Hertfordshire Music Service?
- We improve the lives and life chances of children and young people in Hertfordshire and believe every child has a musical voice that deserves to be nurtured.
- We are a values driven organisation at the forefront of innovative inclusive music tuition development and receive valuable support from Hertfordshire County Council, other funders and stakeholders.
- We support the professional development of teachers from the start with a paid induction process that allows new teachers to develop their skills straight away.
- We encourage our staff to be proactive and enable them to grow their own work.
- There are numerous opportunities to explore a variety of different aspects to music education through the wide range of musical provision we deliver.
What Is Expected from Me?
The role can involve individual, shared, and small group teaching, whole class teaching and ensemble direction. Work can take place during the school day, evenings, and Saturday mornings. This role may involve travel between agreed locations and therefore having your own vehicle is preferred, but not essential.
Our new teachers must be able to commit to deliver 33 teaching weeks over the academic year. Working hours will be agreed together with HMS. Your pay will be determined on the HMS pay scale (to be discussed on appointment). Teachers can progress higher up the pay scale through successful performance management. Refer to Job Description - link
Who Are Hertfordshire Music Service?
Hertfordshire Music Service (HMS) believes that all of Hertfordshire’s children and young people, regardless of background or circumstances, have the opportunity to discover or develop their unique musical voice and express themselves through the language of music.
For over 40 years Hertfordshire Music Service has successfully delivered musical opportunities to generations of young people throughout the county. The service is now one of the largest in the country with many thousands of young people involved in our weekly musical activities.
HMS is a team of passionate musicians, teachers and educators who care deeply about enabling young people to experience the benefits of a high-quality music education. We deliver the incredible musical, personal and social outcomes that come from learning a musical instrument week in, week out.
Our 10 music centres across the county are local musical community hubs with the ambition of providing engaging, life-long music education as well as a wider variety of activities including music technology, music production and youth leadership opportunities.
Hertfordshire Music Service, part of Hertfordshire County Council, is the lead partner for the Hertfordshire Music Education Hub which is supported by funding from the Department for Education which comes to us via Arts Council England.
Please return completed forms to musichr@hertfordshire.gov.uk.
Self-Employed Freelance Music Tutor
Fee: £36 per hour (To be invoiced as per lesson delivery schedule by the end of the 1st week after the end of each calendar month)
Full time equivalent pay: £69,453 (Based on delivery of 37 hours per week over 52.142 weeks)
Start date: ASAP (Subject to checks and clearances)
Hertfordshire Music Service is a team of passionate musicians, educators and professionals who, just like you, care deeply about enabling young people to experience the benefits of a high-quality music education. While working with Hertfordshire Music Service, you will be helping to improve lives by creating musical learning opportunities of all kinds, nurturing and growing happiness and confidence.
Get in touch today by sending your expression of interest to us at MusicHR@Hertfordshire.gov.uk and we’ll be back in touch to arrange a conversation. Good luck.