Job Description

Reference number

BUC14201

Contract type

Other

Working hours

Part Time

Level of DBS check required

Enhanced with Barred List

Date posted

9 Oct 2025, 11 p.m.

Application deadline

20 Oct 2025

Contact email

dmc@rgshw.com

Overview

Job Purpose: To provide individual tuition in electric guitar, acoustic guitar and bass guitar to students, teaching up to and beyond Grade 8. The majority of lessons are electric guitar.

Term time only

Salary type:

Other

Salary Details:

MU rates

Contract type:

Other

Hours:

Part-time

Closing date:

20/10/2025

Interviews to be held:

asap

About us

RGS is an exceptional place with a proud tradition, dating back 1562, of educating young people.



We have high academic standards, excellent examination results and consistently feature amongst the top state schools in England. Almost all students progress to good universities including approximately 9 to Oxford and Cambridge.



Our broad, balanced and very ambitious curriculum is not the full story and we look far beyond its confines with a vast array of co-curricular opportunities unparalleled, I believe, in the state sector.



Our innovative teachers deliver a high-quality classroom experience combined with exceptional pastoral care. We ensure that, in this large school, every student is known as an individual.



We encourage all Wycombiensiens to be self-confident, positive, healthy and enquiring young minds and to live and breathe OW values embodied through a modesty of manner. The result is a happy, close-knit community where we enjoy each other's company, and friendships for life are formed.



Most of our students are day students. Boarding, however, has a unique capacity to shape the lives of young people and RGS offers this provision to 70 boys. Full and weekly boarding is on offer and plays a substantial role within the life of the school.

Website:

www.rgshw.com

About the role

Key Responsibilities



The RGS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, along with their protection and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Attend school during the hours agreed with the Director of Music

Plan and prepare a course of lessons appropriate to the skill of each child

Teach individual lessons according to the timetables

Operate a rotating timetable on our online system SOCS

Prepare pupils for examination by external boards, when required

Provide or contribute oral and/or written assessments, reports and references on individual pupils

Communicate and consult with parents of pupils on matters relating to their tuition or examination entry

Be passionate about music teaching

A willingness to contribute to music life at the school is essential; preparing students for concerts, assemblies and festivals as appropriate. Potentially, accompanying students

About you

Knowledge, Qualifications & Experience



Music degree

Experience teaching up to and beyond Grade 8

Experience working with young children

A knowledge of preparing student for grade exams and GCSE/A Level performances

Enhanced DBS required

Safeguarding: Strict safeguarding rules must be adhered to and training attended as required.

Other information

Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below.



Please complete an RGS application form via Royal Grammar School - Vacancies

Please send completed application forms to the email address below.



Tel No: 01494 524955


Email: dmc@rgshw.com

All staff, visitors and volunteers understand safeguarding children is everyone's responsibility and that they must be diligent to help secure children's safety and wellbeing.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

All unspent convictions and conditional cautions*

All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).*

For further information on filtering please refer to

Nacro guidance

and the

guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice

(see, in particular, the section titled 'Exceptions Order').

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.