Salary: £30,000 per annum with the potential to progress up to £35,000 per annum
Company Bonus Scheme: £1,500 per annum based on your performance & company performance. OTE earnings for year 1: £31,500.
Job Type: Full Time, permanent role
Experience: Musical experience is a requirement for this role, however, no teaching experience required.
Transport: UK/EU Driving Licence and own transport is an essential requirement for the role. Travel Premium payments for longer journeys and Fuel Card included.
Holiday: 11+ weeks paid holiday a year
Location: This is a travelling role. It will be providing cover predominantly centered around Oxford and the surrounding counties but there may be ad hoc requirements to travel outside of this region. Travel and accommodation expenses will be provided.
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Rocksteady Music School is the UK’s biggest employer of full-time, permanent musicians. We teach in-school rock and pop band lessons to primary age children. We’re a community of musicians and music-lovers, on a mission to remove barriers to music education so that no child gets left behind. We’re currently in thousands of schools in the UK, teaching over 100,000 children every week – and we’re growing fast. Join us as a band leader and your passion will inspire the next generation.
Our band leaders often come from diverse backgrounds so we know you might not currently be working in a music-related role or have any teaching experience. If you can bring the right combination of musical ability, passion for our purpose and enthusiasm for learning, then we can offer the training you need to succeed in this role.
As a Regional Band Leader you will:
- Ensure a consistent experience to our customers by providing cover and catch up lessons in Rocksteady schools throughout the year.
- Responsible for assessing the needs of children and schools, and providing high quality lessons in a wide variety of different situations.
- Create and maintain on-going positive relationships with schools requiring cover and catch up lessons.
- Be consistently on top of administrative duties outside of lessons.
- Supporting new Band Leaders in your area when not providing cover and helping to maintain quality standards in your region.
- Fuel card is provided for all business miles (as you will not have a regular place of work all of your mileage will be classed as business mileage).
As a Regional Band Leader you’ll need:
- To be competent on at least two of the following instruments: drums, guitar, bass, keyboard and vocals.
- Be energised by travel and able to stay away from home as required.
- Consistently and positively representing the brand in your schools.
- Be consistently organised and have excellent administrative skills.
- Be highly personable, approachable and friendly.
- Have a confident and concise communication style.
- Have a positive and can-do approach to their work.
- Be resilient and adaptable.
UK/EU Driving Licence and own transport is an essential requirement for the role.
We appreciate that previous experience does not always tell the full story, so if you like the sound of this role, don’t rule yourself out if you feel you don’t tick all the boxes.
Benefits
- Full-time, salaried position.
- Work Monday – Friday, daytimes only.
- Travel Premium payments for longer journeys and Fuel Card included.
- 11+ weeks paid holiday per year.
- Annual staff bonus.
- Long service award: an additional 4 weeks’ pay after 5 years
- Full training in our progressive teaching methodologies.
- Comprehensive benefits package, including discounts on everyday purchases and free 24/7 GP service.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Celebratory staff away-days, Christmas parties and social events.
- Opportunities to work with the Rocksteady Foundation, reaching children and young people in charities and support groups across the UK.
Note: £30,000 pa is effective from 1st October 2026. If you start before this date, the starting salary will be at the current rate of £29,000 pa, until 1st October 2026, when the pay increase takes effect
Every once in a while, you get the chance to be part of something really special. When you join Rocksteady, you know immediately that you’ve found it. Likeminded people are joining us all over the country and we’re reaching more and more children with our lessons every week. We keep growing because we’re driven by our passion for the life-changing nature of music. Ready to join us? This is your time to use your talents for good.
Your Passion. Their Future.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and expect all our staff to share this commitment.
As this role involves regular work with children and young people, and meets the definition of regulated activity, it is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 you must disclose all unprotected unspent and spent cautions and convictions. Further details on what convictions must be declared can be found in the Governments Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975.You can find out more about our policy on recruitment of ex-offendershere.
If you are offered this position, Rocksteady will ask you to complete an enhanced DBS check with a children's barred list check.
It is an offence for an individual who has been barred from working with children to apply for regulated activity. Providing false information is also an offence and could result in the rejection of the applicant, summarily dismissal if selected, and possible referral to the police.
Rocksteady Music School is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to the fair treatment of staff, potential staff, and of our services, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependents, age, physical/mental disability, or offending background.
To find out more about Rocksteady, check out our websitewww.rocksteadymusicschool.com
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