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 teacher can change a young person’s life!
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The Role
We are looking for a guitar teacher that loves working with groups of young students! 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 group lessons, with view to supporting them to perform multiple times per year.
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Schedule & Locations
We are looking for a dedicated group guitar teacher, to deliver lessons during the school day in local schools. Here is what we currently have available:
Cranleigh Area
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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 teachers, 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 teachers 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 beginner students.
- An entertainer who is excited to work with young children.
- Reliable transport is essential.
- Enhanced DBS (or willingness to obtain one).
Job Type: Freelance
Pay: £25.00-£28.00 per hour
Benefits:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Cranleigh GU6: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Are registered with HMRC as a self employed?
- Do you have any teaching qualifications and what are they?
- 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?
Experience:
- tuition: 1 year (required)
Language:
- Fluent English (A level) (required)
Licence/Certification:
- Enhanced DBS (preferred)
- Driving Licence (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
