Teacher of Music (Maternity Cover)
St John's Marlborough, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 4AX8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Oct/Nov 2025
Closing date
4 July 2025 at 4pm
Date listed
20 June 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- Negotiable dependant on experience
Teacher of Music (Maternity Cover) job summary
Teacher of Music (Maternity Cover)
Start Date: November 2025 (potentially sooner)
Salary: negotiable according to experience
St John’s Marlborough is one of the highest performing academies in the country and a key member of the highly effective Excalibur Academies Trust. A rare opportunity has arisen for a teacher of music (maternity cover) to join a very high achieving department, ECT’s are welcome to apply. The successful candidate will be a passionate, creative, who is confident teaching a wide range of musical genres and instruments across the ability range for key stages 3 and 4. They will readily contribute to the wider life of the department and school through extra-curricular clubs, concerts and trips. ECT’s are welcome to apply.
The Music department is highly successful with a positive atmosphere, and you will need to be a strong team player with the ability to inspire, challenge and motivate students. You will join a department which has celebrated many years of exam success and prides itself on expecting the very highest standards of achievement from its students whilst nurturing and supporting all. The Music department also offers a wide range of extra-curricular activities.
The Academy grounds are situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty, boasting views of Marlborough and the surrounding Wiltshire Downs. The Academy has exceptional facilities in a state-of-the-art teaching environment, and we are a school that specializes in evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning.
We believe this is a great opportunity to join a thriving and forward-thinking school.
Closing date for applications: 4th July 2025*
Date of interview: TBC
*The school reserve the right to close the job advert should they receive sufficient suitable applicants.
If you would like to find out more about working at St John's Marlborough, please follow this link to the recruitment pages on our website www.stjohns.excalibur.org.uk/about-us/recruitment/
Excalibur Academies Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The Trust is proud to serve a diverse student and parent community and reserves the right to appoint prior to the closing date. The aims of the Trust's recruitment policy are to ensure that the best possible staff are recruited on the basis of their merits, abilities and suitability for the position; to ensure that all job applicants are considered equally and consistently; to ensure that no job applicant is treated unfairly on any grounds including race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, disability or age; and to ensure that the School meets its commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people by carrying out all necessary pre-employment checks.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About St John's Marlborough
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1726 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St John's Marlborough website
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