Music Teacher in Coventry

Employer Location: Coventry, West Midlands

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time, Part Time

Salary: TBC

Posted: 17th November 2025

Start Date: To Be Confirmed

Expires: 10th December 2025 09:00 AM

Our motivation is that every child can achieve their targets with the right support. If you are dedicated to raising standards and want to make a difference, we would love to hear from you.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated professional to join one of our successful, well-resourced Performing & Visual Arts faculty. The successful candidate may teach Music up to GCSE, although the timetable will be adapted dependent on your experience and career stage.

You will have genuine enthusiasm for working with our amazing students and helping to ensure Caludon Castle is an exceptional place to learn. This position would suit a professional at any stage of their teaching career or as a first step into teaching.

We are dedicated to delivering a learning experience to all students which is stimulating and enjoyable, drawing from a wealth of extended learning environment and enrichment activities. We pride ourselves on being the kind of place people want to work where everyone recognises the buzz of excitement and togetherness, whatever stage they are at in their career. We invest in ensuring the quality of our relationships, fostering and building strong teams to share good and innovative practice, to promote learners’ achievements and to be the best that we can be.

• Be both ambitious and passionate about teaching Music and bringing out the best from every single one of our students.
• Be committed to delivering strong outcomes across a range of ability levels.
• Have an ability to engage, enthuse and motivate students.
• Have the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Deliver a curriculum that inspires and engages students and provides a creative learning experience.
• Be a committed, highly competent, energised, reflective and resilient individual.

This is an exciting time to join us. We are part of Castle Phoenix Multi Academy Trust which specialises in leadership and is committed to invest in and develop all staff and, most importantly, bring about the best possible outcomes for our students who deserve the very best.

• Students that ‘live up to the school’s high expectations and who learn and achieve well’ (Ofsted, February 2024)
• Excellent professional learning
• Regular feedback to develop your teaching expertise
• Access to expert coaching
• An opportunity to participate in a learning and teaching project
• Developmental opportunities for the next step in your career
• Support from a vibrant and caring Performing & Visual Arts team that has the freedom to innovate and inspire our students through faculty centred leadership
• A comprehensive induction programme and mentor
• A range of benefits which includes cycle to work, access to the on-site gym and swimming pool, free parking, an employee discount scheme, provision of an iPad
• Commitment to staff wellbeing and recognition initiatives through our people strategy and well-being committee
• A team that is proud of the school’s ‘good’ Ofsted outcome
• A strong and effective admin team to enable you to concentrate on your teaching

Visits and applications: Sarah Kenrick, Headteacher, would be delighted to meet you and talk about the opportunity, please email Stacy Hands to book a visit.

Closing Date: 9am Wednesday 10 December 2025

Interviews: Wednesday 17 December 2025

If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date for applications, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.

Please note, an online search may form part of this recruitment process following recommendations from Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2025.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Trust is committed to safeguarding, promoting the welfare of children and young people and creating a culture of vigilance and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and vigilance.

Staff are accountable for the way in which they exercise authority, manage risk, use resources and protect students, who they are responsible for or in contact with, from discrimination and avoidable harm. All staff, where paid or voluntary, have a duty to keep young people safe and to protect them from harm. When an individual accepts a role that involves working with children and young people they need to understand acknowledge that the responsibilities and trust are inherent to that role. There will be a requirement that staff observe their obligations in accordance with the Trust’s safeguarding procedure and report any concerns in accordance with the procedure to the appropriate person.