If I could rate minus stars, I would - Music Instructor Junior Jam Employee Review

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. As a company who has been working within education for 19 years we welcome the opportunity to assess feedback and grow where possible. We also welcome input from our staff on how to improve our lessons. Each year we strive to improve what we believe are comprehensive and engaging lesson plans for our pupils. We offer our staff presentations to follow in lessons and a very detailed lesson plan in lesson that range from Reception - Year 6. We always encourage staff to get in touch with any ways they believe the lessons plans can be improved upon. We are also very vocal about staff being able to contact us regarding the need for extra material for longer lessons or help differentiating the lessons when there is a mixed ability class. Junior Jam would advise any future candidates reading this review to bear this in mind and have communication with the music (or any other department) head so that they can support you as needed throughout your time with us. Junior Jam’s policy on time off is simple and outlined within the staff handbook and our onboarding sessions. We ask for 4 weeks’ notice, not 9, and we always try to accommodate any holiday requests that come into us. We need to be able to cover your absence as we cannot leave schools without the cover they have booked. We also sometimes do ask staff from other areas to cover absences, but this is not bases on any bias; purely a need to have staff within our schools. If you're asked to travel outside of your usual area to cover, it's likely we have offered extra pay for attending. Regarding a funeral, I would like to state that no Junior Jam employee has ever been denied the time off to attend a funeral! While it is the case that the timetables, we provide to our staff are term time only, It is not true that Junior Jam staff are not paid for holidays. School holidays are not unpaid, They are paid as the government 12.07% of hours worked within the month. If anyone is ever confused about their holiday pay entitlement. We do ask that they contact their head of department. We are always happy to discuss this and any other queries our staff or potential new hires have and have done so successfully with many employees. From looking at the length of time you continued with Junior Jam 1-2 years, it seems like their were some positive points for you as you must have accepted a new contract with us at the end of your first academic year. Thank you for wanting to continue to work with us for the time you were here. It’s a Glassdoor recommendation to allow the reviewer to continue the discussion offline, We would of course welcome this and ask that you email your former head of department. Thank you Junior Jam team