V-Just Brass Tutor

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The Salvation Army is one of Australia's largest and most-loved charities, helping thousands of Australians every year find hope in the midst of all kinds of personal hardship. The Salvation Army offers the opportunity to use your skills and expertise to make a real difference in the lives of people who need help most.

The highly successful Just Brass music program, run each week for free by The Salvation Army in partnership with local schools, is designed for primary school aged students, particularly targeting those with few opportunities to learn music. Not only do children have access to instruments and learn about music, they will build their self-esteem and confidence, and often show marked improvement academically and well-being - such is the power of music in their lives.

Once the students are collected by bus each week, the Just Brass Tutor, under the direction of the Just Brass Program Leader, will provide brass instrument tuition during rehearsal and coach students to participate in a Just Brass band. The ultimate aim is to see students further their musical skills and knowledge and grow in themselves as resilient young people. Click here for more information about Just Brass.
- Key responsibilities
- Coaching and supporting: Bringing well-honed tuition skills, patience and ability to inspire young people, help small groups of students learn instrumentation techniques and encourage them to practice their chosen instrument.
- Attendance: Reliably attend rehearsals and performances as agreed, and to constructively contribute to post-performance reviews.
- Events: Assist with organising the two Just Brass events held each year.
- Safety: With a strong sense of responsibility and care, ensure safety of self and students are acting safely and respectfully and that ensure safety and wellbeing of self and others
- Qualifications and skills (desired/required)
- Must be able to competently play brass instruments
- Experience and/or keen interest in coaching and tutoring young people
- Willing to occasionally perform in public
- Capabilities and personal attributes
- Manage Self: Shows personal motivation and commitment to completing work activities effectively; maintains own motivation when tasks become difficult; regulates own behaviour and responds appropriately in all circumstances.
- Service User Focused: Committed to and acts for the well-being of internal and external service users; ensures that the needs of service users remain key focus; demonstrates empathy; manages time effectively to enable best outcomes for service users.
- Act Ethically and with Integrity: Represents the organisation in an honest, ethical and professional way; is reliable and trustworthy.
- Show Respect: Respects difference in all its forms; values diversity as a strength; is non-judgemental; responds in culturally appropriate ways.
- Communicate Effectively: Listens to others when they are speaking and asks appropriate, respectful questions; speaks at the right pace and volume for varied audiences; clarifies own understanding.
- Lead Safety and Wellbeing: Identifies and follows safe work practices; takes action to address hazards, near misses and incidents.
- Background check requirements

Background checks play an important part in our commitment to being a safe organisation. Where an applicant has disclosable history, the selection process includes a fair assessment and a risk management approach. Collection of personal information is handled per our privacy and confidentiality policies. Below is what is required for this role:

- As this role is a child-related role, it requires a Working with Children Check/Working with Vulnerable People Check
- Training Requirements

One of the many ways we care for people is by ensuring our workers are well equipped with the necessary knowledge to complete their role safely.

To successfully undertake this role, the following training is required:

- Category B training: Foundational training which includes an introduction to The Salvation Army, code of conduct training, work-safe and child-safe practices. Volunteers will also need to complete extended child-safe training.
- Work Health and Safety (WHS) considerations

We take Work Health Safety and well-being seriously at The Salvation Army. We want to ensure volunteers are fully informed and aware of key safety considerations. For this role, key considerations include (but not limited to): For Covid-related considerations, please refer to the

Covid Resource site

on Salvos Central.
- As this role requires tutors to stand, sit and move around, volunteers will be required to wear comfortable and supportive shoes and take regular breaks.

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