Job Description

Blackheath Prep

Greenwich

Job type:

Part Time, Casual

Apply by:

24 September 2025

Job overview

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Job Title: Visiting Music Teacher (VMT) Guitar (classical/acoustic/electric/ukulele)

Hours of Work: Circa 6 hours per week (as a minimum upon commencement with potential for more hours) term time only engaged on a self-employed basis

Reports to: Director of Music

The Headmaster and CEO of Eltham College Family of Schools, with the Head of Blackheath Prep, seek to appoint a well-qualified, enthusiastic and engaging Guitar Teacher to join our team of self-employed Visiting Music Teachers. In the first instance, the role will be to teach pupils on a one-to-one private basis. In the future, this could develop to include rehearsals directing an ensemble. You should be willing to teach pupils from age 6 to 11 years old.

They will be flexible and pro-active in their approach, have good communication skills, and provide high calibre lessons for pupils, enabling them to perform musically to the high standards expected by the School and to achieve their full potential in music examinations and concert performances as appropriate, as well as enjoying, and feeling motivated by, their musical journey. This will be achieved primarily through one-to-one lessons, but may include assistance with duets/trios, concerts, and performance coaching as required. Our VMTs are responsible for organising their own teaching timetable, but are supported by the Music Administrator where necessary.





Music is a defining feature of Blackheath Prep, part of the Eltham College Family of Schools and considerable time, resource, support and encouragement is given to the musical life of the school. All children (Nursery to Year 6) have weekly class music lessons with a specialist teacher. In Years 3 & 4, children participate in the school's Strings and Wind and Brass Schemes and are given the opportunity to learn an instrument, fully funded by the school. Almost 80% of children learn one instrument with many learning more.

There is a thriving co-curricular programme, and concerts are held regularly throughout the school year. Ensembles and Choirs vary from year-to-year according to the musical skills and needs of the cohort. Currently, the school has numerous choirs, string, wind, brass and percussion ensembles, flute choir and jazz club.

The Music Department is hosted in a purpose-built Music Suite, with a classroom and teaching rooms for peripatetic music lessons.

Application closing date: 9am on Wednesday 24 September 2025

Interviews to take place Wednesday 1 October 2025

Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date and Eltham College Family of Schools reserves the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.

We welcome applications from all parts of our community as we aspire to attract staff that match the social and cultural diversity of our student intake. Candidates will be assessed against relevant criteria only (i.e. skills, qualifications, abilities, experience).

Eltham College Family of Schools is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants undergo enhanced child protection screening relevant to the post, including checks with past employers and the DBS.
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Blackheath Prep

4 St Germans Place, Blackheath
London
SE3 0NJ
United Kingdom

+44 208 858 0692

Blackheath Prep is an outstanding, co-educational prep school for children aged 3 - 11. Our five-acre site offers superb specialist facilities, and plenty of space to provide our pupils with the freedom to learn and play in our large playgrounds, forest school areas and 2.5 acre playing field.

Our seven core values of kindness, curiosity, freedom, ambition, courage, community and joy, inform all that we do and how we behave as a school community. They guide our approach to teaching and learning, to pastoral care and to wellbeing, and our engagement with those around us.

We nurture our pupils both academically and pastorally, enabling them to be happy, confident and inquisitive children. Through a broad range of subjects, inspiring teaching and plenty of exciting activities, we ensure that our school is a really fun place to be where curiosity is stimulated, and a love of learning is encouraged.

Above all, we are kind, friendly and joyful school.

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