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
Current opportunities
Thank you for your interest in joining our team.
We are always on the lookout for skilled individuals and If you would like to be considered, when a suitable vacancy arises, please read our job description and complete our application form.
Completed forms can be returned to musichr@hertfordshire.gov.uk.