Make Music Musician, Home Grown Sessions

Overview

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Make Music Musician, Families Programme

Role: Homegrown Sessions for Home Educated Children

Deadline for applications: 12pm, 5th November 2025

Reports to: Programme Leader, Early Years & Family

Location: The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

Working hours: Wednesdays, 11.15am – 12.30pm

Salary: SCP 50 – £27.94 (+12.07% Holiday pay)

About The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

We’re a place where you can hear rock legends or pop icons on the same night as folk trios or opera singers. Where new musicians are nurtured and showcased on the same stages as platinum- selling performers. And where youth choirs and tambourine- shaking toddlers practice in the same spaces as our acclaimed orchestra Royal Northern Sinfonia.

Whether you’re front of house, waiting in the wings or keeping things running behind the scenes you will be part of a team that means 2 million people enjoy top – notch gigs, concerts and classes in our own venue at Gateshead Quays, out in communities across the North-east and through live-streamed performances and digital lessons.

Make Music: Schools activities and events invite school groups into the building to experience exhilarating live music. In Big Sing and Big Sing for Mini Singers children aged 5-11 learn new songs and sing with a live band along with hundreds of other children their age. School groups are also welcome to explore our fantastic building and watch our Royal Northern Sinfonia rehearse.

The Glasshouse understands that people learn in different ways and have different musical interests. We have come up with ways of teaching music that support people’s personal development as well as musical, designed around the needs of the person learning. We have written this down in our Inclusive Music Making Guide and everything we do is based on that.

Homegrown Sessions for Home Educated Children

Join our joyful music class for ages 5–11 (siblings welcome)

A lively, all-round introduction to music where children can:

• Sing with others, explore and develop their voices
• Try a variety of instruments
• Understand rhythm through movement
• Play fun musical games

It’s the perfect way to build confidence, creativity, and a love of music in a warm, inclusive space.

Grown-ups come along for free.

We are looking for two musicians to lead weekly sessions, help young people grow in confidence and develop their musical skills with an inclusive and supportive approach.

Session Details

Weekly sessions will take place on Wednesdays, 11.15am – 12.30pm, at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music. Sessions take place in 10-week blocks, with a week’s break in the middle.

The main purpose of this role is to co-lead the Homegrown Sessions for Home Educated Children within Make Music Families programme.

You will contribute to artistic design, content creation and planning of sessions and will attend meetings and training as required.

About you

Are you self-motivated, happy working in a team environment and flexible enough to adapt to a changing environment? If this sounds like you, read on to find out how you can hit the ground running.

Experience

• Playing or singing to an advanced, professional standard
• Working with children aged 4-14
• Teaching music fundamentals to younger children through general musicianship
• Teaching singing arrangements in a choir or ensemble capacity
• Valuing diversity in relation to styles of music and strive to champion and celebrate musical pioneers from a variety of musical styles.
• Performing at a professional level
• Ability to share passion for music and inspire students
• Being adaptable with students of different ages, levels of knowledge, and learning styles
• Using initiative and being resourceful and efficient.
• Excellent communication skills, both with children and with colleagues
• An inclusive approach to working with children and young people
• Experience leading children’s ensembles
• Experience of teaching diverse musical styles, e.g., folk or jazz
• Experience of working with the home education community.

Skills and knowledge

• Technique and repertoire on your instrument specialism
• A range of music teaching methods including Kodaly and Dalcroze
• Inclusive music practice
• Safeguarding in education contexts
• A keen interest in the National Curriculum for Music in Primary Schools, including a good understanding of the material you will be teaching

Main duties and responsibilities

Strategy and Plans

• Keep up to date with The Glasshouse policies and plans.
• Maintain an understanding of the needs of young people and adults alongside the barriers they might experience.

Evaluation and Reporting

• Contribute to the evaluation and monitoring of programme performance where required.
• Support and contribute to consultation with families as required.

Programme (artistic)

• Keep up to date with current developments in relation to your own performance practice, specialist education and learning practice.
• Develop and lead high-quality inclusive music learning activities, performances, events, rehearsals, recordings and resources as agreed.
• Lead exemplary practice in inclusive group singing.
• Support the development and maintenance of excellent and inclusive music practice, social and musical pedagogies.
• Work with colleagues to remove barriers to engagement and make sure music learning activities meet a range of different needs, interests, and contexts.

Programme (operational)

• Attend team and organisational meetings as agreed.
• Understand and work in line with operational handbooks and guidelines.

Marketing and Comms

• Work with the Programme Leader to support effective recruitment of singers.

Health and Safety and safeguarding

• Accept individual responsibility for reading, understanding and working in line with Health & Safety, Safeguarding, Equality and Diversity, Dignity at Work and other policies with the Trust.

General

• Advocate for North Music Trust and specifically the Make Music programme.
• Undertake other duties appropriate to the post and in line with the needs of the organisation.

But don’t worry if you’re not a perfect match for the job description and criteria, we’d love you to apply anyway. We are more interested in your determination, positivity, and willingness to get stuck in.

Our commitment to your development

At The Glasshouse, we’re always learning. And we know that when it comes to training, everyone is different. So, you’ll work closely with your manager to identify what your training journey will look like. If you have a specific interest or you would like to develop your skills in a certain area, we want to hear about it.

This may be through gaining a qualification, on-the-job training or learning within your team, but whatever path you take, through training and support, we’ll help you develop the skills and knowledge you need to thrive in your role.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

At The Glasshouse, we encourage a working environment that’s welcoming, inclusive, and diverse. Different backgrounds, views and experiences are valued so everyone can be themselves. Our venue and programmes are for everyone, so we want to make sure this opportunity is available to everyone, no matter your background or the challenges you’ve faced.

For example, we would love to hear from you if you:

• Are D/deaf. Have a disability, learning difficulty or significant long -term health condition which affects your daily life
• Describe yourself as neurodiverse (this might include dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, ADHD, autistic spectrum, and others)
• Grew up in a family receiving Universal Credit or state benefits
• Have ever lived in council or social housing or been on the housing register
• Have ever lived in sheltered accommodation or experienced homelessness
• Experienced being in care at any point in your life
• Have been a refugee or asylum seeker
• Are from the African, South, East and South–East Asian, Middle East, Latinx or North African diaspora, or have experienced racism
• These are some common examples of challenging circumstances but there may be others. Everyone is welcome to apply.
• We do not discriminate because of race, colour, religion, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation or expression, age, disability or any other protected characteristic as outlined in the Equality Act 2010.

Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expect all of those that work with us to share this commitment. We operate a robust safeguarding framework and continuous assessment and development to support safer working practice across our workforce. Our roles are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes relevant background checks and the disclosure of criminal records, sanctions, and investigations where appropriate.

Our application process

Closing date for applications: 5th November 2025

Interview date: 12th November 2025

We understand that interviews can be a nerve-racking experience. We want you to feel comfortable so you can be yourself and shine, so if you have any questions about the role or the application process, please contact Isabella, People Coordinator at recruitment@theglasshouseicm.org

Contact: recruitment@theglasshouseicm.org