About The Music Works
We are proud to be Music School of the Year 2025 and Highly Commended at the Surrey Business Awards. Our purpose is simple: we make musicians and communities. We believe music has the power to build confidence, connection, and courage; and that the right mentor can change a young person’s life.
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The Role
We are looking for a guitar teacher that cares more about people than perfection. At The Music Works, personality comes first. While musical competence matters, we believe the best mentors are those who can connect, encourage, and inspire. This role is about helping students feel safe, seen, and brave enough to learn, be creative and perform. You will mentor students through engaging 1-to-1 lessons, with view to supporting them to perform multiple times per year.
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Our current availability at our Guildford music school (GU1 1RR):
Wednesdays 4pm to 8pm
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Consistent Freelance Work
We know freelancers value certainty. We work with you to agree on consistent teaching blocks, allowing you to plan your gigging and personal life around your teaching commitments. As our school grows, we prioritise our existing mentor network for new student portfolios, giving you first refusal on additional work.
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What matters most to us:
- You are a people-person: You build trust easily and create an environment where students and team members feel encouraged and cared for.
- You value growth over perfection: You understand that confidence, enjoyment, and progress matter more than flawless playing.
- You take care of your community: You look after everyone around you; whether that is students, parents, fellow mentors, or our admin team. You treat every interaction as an opportunity to build trust and make someone’s experience great.
- You lead with empathy: You adapt your approach to suit each child.
- You inspire through example: You encourage students to share their music and support them in taking their first steps onto the stage.
- You are reliable and committed: Our students thrive on consistency. We need mentors who take ownership of their responsibilities and show up for their community week in, week out.
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Experience & Requirements
- Competent guitarist with the ability to support students at varying stages of development, up to grade 8.
- A natural encourager who enjoys working with children, young people and adults.
- Teaching experience of at least 1 year.
- Play a second instrument? We love versatile musicians and can often build larger, more consistent teaching blocks for those who can teach across disciplines (e.g., piano & singing) - or perhaps you’d thrive leading our band sessions!
- Reliable transport.
- Enhanced DBS (or willingness to obtain one).
Job Type: Freelance
Pay: £25.00-£28.00 per hour
Benefits:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Guildford GU1 1RR: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have reliable access to a vehicle?
- Do you have any music qualifications and what are they? (ABRSM, RSL, Trinity etc)
- Are you on the DBS update service?
- Do you have any teaching qualifications and what are they?
- Are you registered with HMRC as a self employed?
Experience:
- tuition: 1 year (required)
Language:
- Fluent English (A level) (required)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (preferred)
- Enhanced DBS (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
