Tutor jobs · UK-wide online · West London in-person
Join the team behind Legacy Academy.
We hire for character first, credentials second. If you teach because you care — about the subject, about the student in front of you, about the difference a year of decent tutoring actually makes — read on.
Apply in five minutes · Interview within a fortnight · Trial lesson paid at standard rate
- UK-wide online
- West London in-person
- DBS-checked
- Paid trial lessons
- Route to lead-tutor roles
What we look for
The bar isn't a CV — it's whether your students would want you back.
Every parent who books with us is trusting their child's GCSE year to a tutor we picked. The bar we hire against is the bar we'd want for our own kid — mostly character (reliability, judgement, taking the responsibility seriously), with credentials proving you actually know the subject end to end.
- Subject mastery at GCSE level — across all major boards (AQA, Edexcel, OCR), not just the bits you found interesting at A-level.
- Prior teaching or a serious tutoring track record — paid 1-to-1 work, school placements, lead-tutor elsewhere. Hours, not just title.
- Willingness to be enhanced-DBS-checked before your first lesson with a real student. No exceptions — we cover the cost.
- Reliability a parent can plan around: same time each week, no 24-hour cancellations for a holiday booked yesterday.
- Teaching as a responsibility, not a side-hustle. We fit tutors who finish a lesson knowing what they'd do differently next week.
What we offer
A clean platform, a steady supply of students, and a route to grow.
We're not the highest-paying tutoring platform in the UK. We are the cleanest place a serious tutor can spend the part-time hours they have available — a steady supply of matched students, parents whose expectations have been set honestly before you meet them, and an ops team that does the matching, scheduling and admin so your hours go on teaching.
Pay is per delivered lesson, monthly in arrears, with cancellation protection inside our notice window. The exact per-hour range is being finalised by the founder — we quote the real figure at interview before you commit time to the trial lesson. We refuse to publish a placeholder (see TODO_FOUNDER_TUTOR_PAY.md).
- Pay per delivered lesson. Cancellation protection inside notice window. Exact rate confirmed at interview.
- Flexible scheduling — you set weekly availability, we match students into your slots. Most tutors run 4–12 hours/week.
- Clear boundaries: no "on-call" hours, no parent WhatsApps at 11pm — all contact routes through us.
- CPD support — exam-board updates, mark-scheme briefings, an internal teaching-notes library.
- Route to lead-tutor and curriculum-lead roles as we grow.
The process
Four steps. Four weeks, give or take. We don't ghost.
Step 1 — Written application. Use the Apply button on this page to send us the basics (name, subjects, region, contact details) plus a short paragraph on why you want to teach. We reply within five working days, including if it's a no.
Step 2 — 30-minute interview with our recruitment team. A conversation about how you teach, the kind of student you work well with, and the rate band we'd offer you. We answer your questions about pay and hours honestly, including the parts still being figured out.
Step 3 — Trial lesson with a real prospective student. 30 or 60 minutes on a topic we send in advance, paid at the standard hourly rate. The parent watches the first few minutes, then leaves you to it. We collect honest parent feedback and your reflection.
Step 4 — Onboarding. Enhanced DBS verification (we cover the cost), a platform walkthrough, and we set your weekly availability. Your first regular slot is usually within a week of onboarding completing.
Subjects we're hiring for now
What's open as of this academic year.
The list below is conservative on purpose — we'd rather a candidate apply for a subject we can place them on than one we can't. The founder reviews this quarterly (see TODO_FOUNDER_HIRING_SUBJECTS.md); the "always hiring" subjects reflect parent-demand backlog we genuinely can't keep up with.
If your subject isn't listed, apply anyway — we keep a register of strong candidates and reach out the moment a slot opens, particularly if you teach two or more GCSE subjects.
- GCSE Mathematics — always hiring (highest parent demand).
- GCSE Combined Science — always hiring.
- GCSE Biology (separate science) — always hiring.
- GCSE Chemistry (separate science) — always hiring.
- GCSE Physics (separate science) — currently hiring; subject to founder confirmation.
- GCSE English Language and English Literature — currently hiring.
- Other GCSE subjects (Geography, History, MFL, Computer Science) — register of strong candidates only; we'll be in touch as demand catches up.
Apply
Five minutes. Three short steps. We reply within five working days.
Applications go straight to the Legacy Academy team, read inside a week. The form below asks for the bare minimum we need to triage — name, contact, what you teach, and a short paragraph if you'd like to add one. Send a CV by reply once you submit if useful — don't wait to write one.
Prefer email? Contact our team at admin@legacyacademy.org.uk.
Tutor application — frequently asked.
Most of our tutors run between 4 and 12 hours of lessons a week with us — a handful of weekly slots in the late afternoons (4–8pm) plus a couple at the weekend. We're not the right fit if you need 30+ hours from a single platform; we're a strong fit if you're stacking us alongside teaching, a postgrad, or another tutoring stream. Hours flex up through the spring term as exam season and Easter intensives land.
No — but you do need to teach the subject end-to-end at GCSE level and explain it the way an actual teenager will follow. Roughly half our tutors are qualified teachers; the other half are subject-specialist tutors with a strong academic background and a serious tutoring track record. We hire for character first, credentials second — but the character has to be backed by genuine subject mastery, which we test in the interview and the trial lesson.
An hourly rate per delivered lesson, paid monthly in arrears. Lessons cancelled inside our notice window are paid; cancelled with proper notice they're not (you keep the slot next week). The exact rate band depends on subject, experience and format (online vs in-person). The per-hour range is being finalised by the founder — see TODO_FOUNDER_TUTOR_PAY.md — and we'll quote the real figure at interview before you commit time to a trial lesson. We'd rather have that conversation honestly than publish a placeholder.
Yes for online lessons — every tutor on the team currently works entirely online from anywhere in the UK. In-person tutoring isn't something we deliver yet; the planned first base is west London out of the Uxbridge HQ, so if you're based there and would be open to travelling into a parent's home when that launches, flag it on the application — you'd be on the early list. If you're outside the UK we can't take you on — DBS and right-to-work are both UK-resident processes, and time zones outside UK working hours don't fit the families we work with.
Safeguarding is a hard requirement, not a tick-box. Every tutor we onboard goes through enhanced DBS verification before their first lesson — no exceptions. Online lessons run on a shared interactive whiteboard with the platform's safeguards; in-person lessons require an adult in the house (not the room) and we make that expectation explicit to families. We run a short safeguarding briefing during onboarding — what to flag, to whom, and what to do if a student discloses something difficult. The full policy lives on /safeguarding.
We reply to every application within five working days. If we'd like to take it forward, the next step is a 30-minute interview with our recruitment team, usually within a fortnight. If that goes well, the trial lesson is within a week or two of the interview. Most candidates know within four weeks of applying whether they're starting; onboarding (DBS + platform walkthrough) adds another week or two on top. If we're not the right fit we tell you in the same five-day window — we don't ghost.
A real 30- or 60-minute lesson with a real prospective student of ours, with the parent watching the first few minutes. You'll prep against a topic we send you in advance, deliver the lesson, and write a short follow-up note the way you would in a paid lesson. The trial is paid at the standard hourly rate — your time is your time. The founder reviews the lesson (parent feedback + your reflection) and we make a decision in the same week.
Yes — and we're explicit about it on day one. The obvious next steps are lead-tutor (mentoring newer tutors in your subject, signing off their first six weeks of progress reports) and curriculum-lead (owning the topic sequence, diagnostic and resource library in your subject). Both carry a higher hourly rate and a small monthly retainer. We'd rather promote tutors who already understand how we work than hire those roles externally.