Teacher of Art (MAT Cover)
Swindon Academy, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 1JR21 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
15 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 April 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Art and design
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours over 5 days, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Fixed term - up to 12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- £35,000-£51,000 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
An Exciting Opportunity to join Swindon Academy - the top performing school in Swindon
Bordering on the beautiful Cotswolds and within commuting distance of Bristol, Bath, Reading and Oxford
Salary: £35,000 - £51,000 per annum
Contract term: Fixed term (Mat cover)
Start Date: September 2025
Swindon Academy is looking to appoint a well-qualified and dynamic Art teacher to join the school’s highly regarded Art Department. As well as welcoming applications from experienced teachers and those relocating to the area, the school can offer an excellent support network and induction programme for Early Career Teachers who are committed to helping young people realise their potential.
We are looking for an Art Teacher who:
- is passionate about their subject and is great practitioner with high expectations and good classroom management
- is interested in the science of learning and is committed to continuous improvement
- can demonstrate excellent organisational and inter-personal skills and the ability to work in a team
- is committed to making a significant contribution to our extra-curricular programme
- has energy and commitment for all aspects of school life
- has a desire and passion to make a real difference to the lives and life-chances of our students.
What the school offers its staff
Swindon Academy can offer you:
- the opportunity to work in the best school in Swindon
- an exceptional salary, above the maintained sector by 5% on average
- a strong whole-school team of hardworking, supportive and friendly colleagues
- a culture and ethos of sky-high expectations
- a rigorous whole-school behaviour system that allows teachers and pupils to benefit from disruption-free learning.
- fully resourced curriculum with centralised, shared units of work and resources.
- whole-class feedback marking policies and retrieval practice strategies aimed at supporting the work-life balance of teachers.
- a dedicated team of non-teaching pastoral and SEN staff who work with teachers to support pupils
- a commitment to workload and wellbeing through our WW Charter.
- a research driven (no fad) in-house professional development program utilising best practice and evidence-based teaching and learning initiatives.
- a coaching culture, where every teacher is supported to develop professionally
- access to the best professional development bespoke to all levels of leadership
- a ‘hands-on’ and committed Senior Leadership Team, completely determined to create an environment in which teachers can get on with their core role: delivering excellent lessons.
- huge personal satisfaction in your work as a leader & teacher.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Swindon Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1864 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Swindon Academy website
- Email address
- karen.wright@swindon-academy.org
At Swindon Academy, we pride ourselves on a team of staff who are supportive, friendly, and dedicated to providing the very best teaching and learning for our students. Staff across the academy set a culture of high expectations and continuous improvement for students which, in turn, is reflected in the emphasis we place on continuing professional development (CPD) for our staff.
We have made significant, sustained progress at GCSE and are proud to be the top performing school in Swindon for progress over the last six years. Swindon Academy was the first all-though academy to open in the UK and has over 1,900 pupils from the age of 2 to 19.
The school is situated in purpose-built £25 million premises, benefiting from excellent, state-of-the-art facilities, and situated within the beautiful county of Wiltshire, within commuting distance for Bristol, Bath and Oxford. United Learning is a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.
Swindon Academy is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life-changing education to children and young people across England. United Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All positions are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online check.
Arranging a visit to Swindon Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email karen.wright@swindon-academy.org.
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