Job Description

Salary

32,061 - 34,434 Pro rata

Contractual hours

22.2

Basis

Other

Region

Rotherham

Job category/type

Education (Support Services)

Date posted

08/12/2025

Job reference

REQ21831



Directorate: Regeneration & Environment

Permanent, Part time, 22.20 hours per week, Term time

Rotherham has the ambition to be a town where musical creativity is at the heart of every aspect of life. Music from before birth, through school and after school activities, with family learning, participation as audiences and encouraging expression that leads from passion to profession. Rotherham Music provides music education to more than 3,000 children and young people each week across a range of musical disciplines for both in and out of school education. Alongside its provision for children and young people the service also supports a range of community music programmes from its Mini Melodies programme for pre-school children and its annual Signals music festival.

Rotherham Music is looking for a part time strings tutor for three days a week. Experience in individual and whole class teaching is desirable and the ability to deliver on a second instrument is also welcome.

Our ideal team members would be:

Able to tutor pupils to a high standard in their area of musical expertise Able to tutor students individually, and in small and large groups Willing to develop their practice according to the needs of a diverse range of students Able to work during the day and, ideally, one evening


Interested candidates can contact Toby Smith on toby.smith@rotherham.gov.uk for an informal conversation or further details.

This post may bring you into contact with children/adults and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the disclosure scheme can be found at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website. Until 31st March 2026 employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a monthly deduction from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded three additional days leave (pro rata for part-time).