Academy: Trust Central
Category: Teaching
Start Date: January 2026
Closing Date: Mon, Nov 3, 2025
Job Weeks: All Year Round
Hours: 26 hours per week
Type: Permanent, Part Time
Job Reference: OCT
Salary: Unqualified Teachers Pay Scale (UNQ) / Qualified Teachers Pay Scale: Main Pay Scale (MPS)
Part time - 26 hours per week / 4 days (0.8 FTE) (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
Start Date: January 2026
Are you passionate about music?
Are you committed to improving the life chances of young people?
Inspiration Trust are seeking to appoint a Visiting Music Teacher with a Guitar specialism. If you are an excellent teacher, who is passionate about education and are excited about continuing to develop your practice, then we want to hear from you.
The successful applicant will plan and deliver high-quality instrumental/vocal teaching within multiple Academies across the Trust and will facilitate co-curricular musical opportunities. While most teaching will take place during school hours, some work will be required out of school hours, most notably for rehearsals, performances and exams.
This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate music teacher, with a proven track record in achieving strong outcomes, to have a significant impact. This role presents an opportunity to work with nationally recognised practitioners and access high quality CPD.
The trust seeks applications from experienced, specialist teachers of Guitar. Experience teaching, and skill in demonstrating multiple styles of guitar is preferred and will be considered an advantage (acoustic, bass, classical, electric, ukulele). The ability to play and teach another instrument to a high standard would be beneficial, but is not a prerequisite.
This post is deployable trust-wide. Expected working locations at the outset can be discussed during the interview.
Informal discussions with the Director of Music, to inform your decision to apply, are encouraged. Please email:
Before applying, please read the attached Recruitment Pack and Job Description, for more details about the role. We ask that you read this pack carefully, especially the "Planning your application" section from page 10. This will support your application ensuring you have the opportunity to tell us about your relevant skills, experience and qualifications that relate to the job description and person specification in addition to details of your references covering the last 5 years.
The ideal candidate will have:
Grade 8 or above in a primary study instrument (or demonstrable skill level equivalent to at least this standard)
Grade 5 music theory or above (or a demonstrable skill level equivalent to this standard)
Valid driving license
Experience of teaching a range of ages, from primary to secondary pupils
Experience of leading and assisting with ensemble activities (choirs, ensembles, performance opportunities)
Inspiration Trust has twice been ranked as the country's top family of comprehensive schools for pupil progress, and strongly believes in the importance of giving the widest educational opportunities to all young people, regardless of their background. The Trust provides strong networks with opportunities to work with a diverse range of schools and partners. The Trust is committed to offering excellent professional and learning opportunities to all our staff, with a busy programme of continuing professional development courses delivered by some of the country's best educational thinkers and practitioners.
Inspiration Trust feels it is important to support every school by centralising certain support services. In turn this reduces workload on senior leaders, helping to establish further value for money on a variety of integrated services. This also ensures the Trust's Academies have a local support structure and share best practice. As a Trust we will continue to review the services we offer and are committed to making them responsive to individual Academy's needs.
The Trust's dedicated Central Services Team is based at the Hewett Academy in Norwich. This team provides a strong range of school support services including:
Finance
Governance
Human Resources and Payroll
Operations, including Estate management, Health and Safety, ICT and Marketing
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When you join Inspiration Trust's thriving network of talented teachers, leaders and support staff, you join an organisation that supports you to be the best you can be. The Trust offers a varied professional development programme for employees.
We are committed to offering excellent professional opportunities for our staff, through careful support and personalised CPD. We offer a structured and specific induction programme.
The Trust also offers:
Generous holiday entitlement
Teachers' Pension Schemes with generous employer contributions
Health Plan and Employee Assistance Programme giving access to a range of services including claim back costs for Eye Care and prescriptions and access to 24/7 virtual GP Service and mental health support (Terms and conditions and restrictions apply).
Cycle-to-work scheme
Retail Benefits offering discounts with many shops and suppliers
Corporate membership of the Norwich Theatre Royal
Salary sacrifice schemes, including home technology, smartphones and healthcare plans, including Dental insurance and Gym membership discounts (Terms and conditions and restrictions apply).
Free Parking (on most sites)
* Some benefits are only available following successfully passing probation
Closing date for applications: 12pm on Monday 3rd November 2025
Interview date: Tuesday 11th November 2025
Inspiration Trust is committed to safeguarding and all staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced DBS checks. You will be required to provide references and undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer.
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