Join our Team at OmniMusic
Are you passionate about making music accessible to all? At OmniMusic, we believe in the power of music to transform lives. We’re looking for dedicated individuals to join our team and help us break down barriers to music-making for disabled individuals. Explore our current vacancies and volunteer opportunities and become part of an award-winning charity that’s making a real difference. Together, let’s create a more inclusive world through music.
OmniMusic celebrates diversity in our team, with 50% of our staff identifying as d/Deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent; and we welcome applications from creatives from a broad range of the backgrounds that reflect our programme participants.
And we would especially love to hear from disabled-identifying, female, non-binary and non-male identifying practitioners and musicians from global majority communities, as your backgrounds are currently unrepresented in our teams but present in our participants. If you need this information in a different format, or would like to book an informal chat with one of the team, please email us.
Check out our latest opportunities below:
Resource Pack Development Consultant
Are you passionate about creating inclusive music experiences for learners with complex needs? OmniMusic, an award-winning charity, is seeking a dedicated specialist to develop digital resources for teachers and TAs in SEND settings.
Your Role: As an SEND music specialist, we are looking for someone to join our team for a short project to develop and design a collection of 10 curriculum enriching learning resources for non-musicians to deliver in school. This pack of accessible and inclusive music activities and session plans should be ‘plug-and-play’, and easy for teachers and TAs to deliver independently outside of our weekly sessions.
Commitment: This is a short project with an immediate start and must be completed by Friday 10 January 2025.
Contract Basis: Self-employed/ Freelance.
Pay Scale: The fee for this work is £1,200 inclusive of VAT.
Join us in making music accessible to all.
Join OmniMusic as a Trustee
Are you passionate about breaking down barriers to music-making for disabled individuals? OmniMusic, an award-winning charity based in Stockport, Greater Manchester, we empower disabled people to explore their creative expression through high-quality music-making programmes.
Omni Music is seeking dedicated trustees to join our team to support the Chief Executive and Leadership team with strategic direction and the development and delivery of our 2025-2030 Business Plan.
About Us: For 20 years, OmniMusic has pioneered inclusive music-making, using Assistive Music Technology to ensure everyone can participate. We work in specialist education and adult day care settings, focusing on ability, not disability.
Your Role: As a trustee, you’ll provide governance, strategic oversight, and ensure compliance and accountability. We’re looking for expertise in music-making in a disability context, business development, communications & marketing, or arts & health strategy.
Commitment: Trustees meet quarterly, usually online. This voluntary role offers the chance to make a significant impact.
Contract Basis: Volunteer – effective trustees typically commit between 1-3 years on a charity board.
Pay Scale: Trustees offer their time on a voluntary basis. Travel expenses may be covered by agreement.
Join us in making music accessible to all.
Join OmniMusic as a Music Practitioner
Are you a music facilitator with a passion for access and inclusion in music? Do you have experience, as an SEND music practitioner, of supporting disabled people to make the music that matters to them? Are you curious to use a combination of traditional instruments and assistive music technology in your community music practice?
About Us: OmniMusic delivers a combination of group-based and 1:1 music-making programmes in SEND schools and Adult Community Day Service partnership settings, working across the breadth of disability from Profound and Multiple Learning Disability (PMLD) to Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH). Typically, our participants are based in a specialist setting and have Educational Health Care Plans (EHCPs).
We deliver person-centred, energetic, creative workshops, supporting participants towards original music-making and proudly provide professional platforms to showcase their talents; from music venue showcases, radio play, public sound installations and professional studio time; challenging and reshaping societal views on disability through music.
Your Role: As a specialist music practitioner you will be working alongside another facilitator to plan, deliver, evaluate and refine our weekly Learning and Community programmes across Stockport, and Greater Manchester. Our work takes place on our partners’ premises, predominantly in small group settings, with specific practitioners delivering 1:1 work with individual learners.
Commitment: Music Specialists are contracted on a project-by-project basis. Wherever possible we aim to offer a minimum of a termly to annual commitment to our team.
Contract Basis: Self-employed/ Freelance positions with work offered on a project-by-project basis.
Pay Scale: Our standard fees range from trainee rates £100-£250 based on specialism and experience.
Join us in making music accessible to all.