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  • Start date details

    Oct/Nov 2025

  • Closing date

    4 July 2025 at 4pm

  • Date listed

    20 June 2025

Job details

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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.

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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
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