Peripatetic Teacher - PIANO

Barclay Academy, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 3RB

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  3 April 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  24 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £33.00/hr

Peripatetic Teacher - PIANO job summary

Job Role

We are developing an academic culture at Barclay Academy where the highest standards are expected of staff and students. It is a dynamic school, where students and staff are exceptionally well supported.

Learning to play a musical instrument is an important and valuable experience for students at Barclay Academy. The Music Department seeks to employ a peripatetic piano teacher to deliver 1-2-1 piano lessons and small group teaching. 

This position requires you to be self-employed. Teaching days can be negotiated and instrumental lessons will be timetabled in blocks of time during the school day (8.30am-3.05pm). After school extra-curricular activities run from 3.10pm-4.10pm.

This is a great opportunity to make a positive contribution to the lives of young people. Come and join a transformative team at Barclay Academy where you can make an immediate and real difference alongside a totally committed and dedicated group of professionals.

We can offer you:

• A friendly and supportive staff community.
• The opportunity to work within an innovative and ambitious family of schools.
• The opportunity to work with enthusiastic and hardworking students.
• High quality facilities with excellent resources.
• A location easily accessible by train and bus.

If you think you have what we are looking for, we very much look forward to hearing from you. 

Please note that Future Academies reserves the right to appoint at any stage during the recruitment process.

Future Academies is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all members of staff to share this commitment and hold this responsibility.  To this end an Online Check, Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and a Barred List check are required for this role.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Barclay Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 992 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Barclay Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/barclay-academy

Barclay Academy sits in the beautiful Historic Old Town in Stevenage. We have strong transport links in the town including a 20 minute commute into London.
The school’s main aim is to develop our students’ potential to the full and to help them grow into successful, caring and respectful young people. In order to achieve this, Barclay provides a safe, supportive environment within which student’s academic, cultural and emotional needs are met. The school motto – “Believe, Achieve, Exceed” – underlines the opportunities for all members of the Barclay community.
There is outstanding pastoral support so that our students are able to engage with the curriculum, make progress and enjoy what the school has to offer.
The Academy is growing strongly once more, but we still endeavour to meet the needs of children here as individuals. We are ambitious and set ourselves challenging objectives. This is an exciting time for Barclay as we have rapidly improved the quality of teaching and learning. Our dedicated and hardworking staff team have a real commitment to ensuring that students have the opportunity to make progress and enjoy success.
We set high expectations and, as a result, our students are smart, well behaved and respectful. Students have many opportunities for enrichment, both in school and through a range of educational visits, to enhance their learning in the classroom. We look forward to welcoming you to the Barclay Academy to see us at first hand.

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