The Purcell School
Hertfordshire
£ £45.31 per hour
Expiring soon
Salary:
£45.31 per hour
Job type:
Part Time, Temporary
Start date:
29 September 2025
Apply by:
24 September 2025
Job overview
We are seeking a dynamic Piano teacher who is passionate about contributing their skills, experience and energy. You will join the School's Keyboard department, teaching piano students who are likely to progress to top conservatoires or universities in the UK or abroad.
You should have the ability to develop and maintain warm, respectful and valued rapport with young people, whilst understanding the professional boundaries that must exist between staff and students. You should provide a positive role model, demonstrating self-motivation and mature interpersonal skills. You will be an accomplished performer and have experience of working with musically gifted young people in an academic or musical environment. The role will involve teaching one-to-one.
You will play an active role in promoting the school in support of a strategy to recruit students. You will have effective communication skills (verbal and written) and the ability to deal with students, parents and staff across the whole school. You will be expected to maintain high personal and professional standards, including recognition of the confidentiality issues impacting upon work in a school. You must be able to demonstrate an awareness of safeguarding and child protection legislation and issues, and will be expected to uphold a full commitment to the best safeguarding practice.
This is a part time, casual contract with the initial assignment to take place from 29th September 2025 for approximately one term, to teach around 12 hours per week.
The hourly rate is £45.31 plus holiday pay.
Children of staff are not eligible to be educated at the School except through the normal admissions and audition process.
All posts are subject to regular appraisal.
Lunch can be taken free of charge at School during term time.
The Purcell School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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About The Purcell School
The Purcell School
Aldenham Road, Bushey
Herts
WD23 2TS
United Kingdom
The Purcell School is a world-famous boarding and day school in Bushey near Watford, which aims to provide a rounded education with music at its heart.
The school was founded in 1962, and is Britain's oldest specialist music school. There are currently over 180 pupils aged from 10-18 years, of whom about 30% come from abroad. Over 75% of pupils are boarders. The sixth form currently comprises around 90 pupils with approximately 25-30 pupils joining the school each year specifically for the Sixth Form. The majority of pupils progress to music conservatoires, many of them on scholarships, while a small number each year elect to go to university, often to Oxbridge or Russell Group institutions.
The school has an enviable reputation for the quality of its musical education and performance. Students enjoy individual tuition on one or two instruments, or in composition, from some of the very best teachers available. They take part in over 200 orchestral, choral and chamber concerts, and have opportunities to perform regularly at venues including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and St Albans Abbey.
In addition to their musical studies, students study for GCSE and A Level. The range of subjects on offer includes all three sciences, art, drama, English literature, modern languages, history and music technology. All pupils take GCSE and A-level Music.
Our students are the liveliest, most committed and self-motivated young people you could hope to meet. Every day, the School's corridors echo with the sound of extraordinary music as our students prepare for concerts both here at School and in the most prestigious venues in London.
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