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Full-Time Employed Tutoring at Keystone

Are you looking for a flexible, well-paid, and deeply rewarding career?  

One which will build on your passion for education and learning, and which will let you support and inspire children to achieve their full academic potential? 

If so, consider joining Keystone Tutors as part of our new intake of full-time, London-based tutors scheduled to start in August 2025. Our goal is to help children excel, and our diverse team of creative and committed tutors are at the heart of our mission.  

Role Summary 

Job Title: Professional Tutor 

Location: London 

Pay Rate: Base salary of between £22,500 and £27,000 with the average starting salary of £25,000 for 13 hours teaching per week. There is the potential to earn significantly more, the more teaching hours you do. 

Main duties and responsibilities 

  • Teaching 1-2-1 and small group courses online and in person. Tutoring takes place within clients' homes located in and around Central London or online and there is potential to travel abroad.
  • Tutors will be expected to write resources, plan lessons, and engage with a structured professional development programme.
  • Liaising with parents and the wider Keystone team.
  • Professional Tutors are expected to have availability to teach in prime tutoring hours (typically 4pm-6:30pm), although some work could be carried out during the day and over the weekend.

Why work for Keystone? 

  • Keystone Tutors are the only tuition agency in the UK that employs full-time tutors – so you receive generous benefits including a workplace pension, annual leave and a guaranteed income each month.
  • We give you autonomy over what to teach, when you teach and how to teach it. You can teach topics that you are passionate about to highly engaged learners all around the world.
  • Flexible working with the opportunity to devise your tutoring schedule around your other commitments.
  • Continued professional development and monthly training courses.
  • The support of a large team of office staff to support you with timetabling, client management and training. To find out more about our Professional Tutors read our Tutor Stories. and view our current team of tutors.

Desired Qualifications and Experience 

  • 2:1 undergraduate level degree
  • You might hold a professional teaching qualification such as a PGCE, QTS or TEFL
  • We are particularly interested to hear from people who want to tutor the following subjects: English, Maths, Science, Computer Science, Oxbridge preparation and school entrance tests
  • Some teaching or tutoring experience desirable

Benefits 

  • Earn a base salary of between £22,500 and £27,000 as a Professional Tutor (with the potential to earn significantly more the more hours you tutor). Our Professional tutors tend to teach between 50 and 75 hours per month, both online and face-to-face, over a 12-month period (between 600 and 900 hours per year).
  • Cycle to work and pension schemes as well as a work from home allowance.
  • Continual professional development and a thorough training programme which extends throughout your years with Keystone.
  • An annual series of social events and a mentoring scheme which underpins a collaborative and supportive environment.

We are looking for candidates to join us in August 2025. The first two weeks of your employment will be spent undertaking our bespoke training programme to ensure you have the necessary tutoring skills. Training sessions will also take place every month in your first year as a Professional Tutor. 

How to apply 

Please fill out our online application form at the bottom of the page. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis so early application is encouraged.  

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Self-Employed Tutoring at Keystone

Keystone represents a team of around 250 self-employed tutors. Self-employed tutors work on a freelance basis with full control over their timetables. We look for candidates who are keen to make tutoring a part-time or full-time career.

We welcome - and read - all applications. We do get lots, though, so please be patient for a response. Unfortunately, we turn down far more applications than we accept. A couple of factors will greatly increase your chance of a successful application:

  • A commitment to tutoring for at least a 2 year period
  • The capacity to tutor for 3+ hours a week
  • Teaching experience - either in the classroom or as a tutor
  • A strong academic record
  • A passion for education

We would particularly welcome applications from those looking to teach Computer Science, IB Maths & Sciences and those who can teach face to face in central London.

If we want to proceed with your application, we shall give you a call in the first instance to ask you some further questions about your experience, commitment and subject specialism. There is then a further online interview in which we will ask you to demonstrate your teaching skills and to take a short academic test.

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Full-Time Employed and Self-Employed Tutor Application Form

Please note that all tutors will be required to undergo the following background checks as part of our safer recruitment process:

  • Enhanced DBS check (including Children's Barred List)
  • Overseas criminal records check if the applicant has lived overseas for three months or more in the last five years
  • Qualifications check
  • Two references
  • ID check including identifying the right to work in the UK
  • Teacher barred list check
  • We are looking for tutors who can teach face to face in central London
  • We are also keen for tutors who are available at the weekends

 

(N.B. The majority of our tutoring occurs within Zones 1 and 2, in particular central/west London.)

Details of Two Referees:

Please note that referees must not be related to you. If you have attended an academic institution in the last three years this should be one of your references and if you have been employed in the last three years please select your most recent employer. If neither of these apply please select a referee who will be best placed to assess your suitability as a tutor (e.g. a parent of a previous student). If you are invited for an interview with Keystone your referees will be contacted prior to your interview.

Referee 1:

For academic or professional references this must be their company, institution or school email address.

Referee 2:

For academic or professional references this must be their company, institution or school email address.

Applicant tutor profile:

Keystone is currently looking for tutors who can commit to tutoring for at least a 2 year period. Please also note that professions which are subject to unpredictable schedules are not looked upon favourably by clients.

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In order to tutor through Keystone we require all tutors to have a DBS certificate processed by Keystone. To speed this process up we recommend that you join the tutoring industry body: The Tutor's Association. Alongside other benefits you will be able to start processing a DBS with them straight away. Should you do this and sign up to the update service, Keystone (as well as any other agencies you apply to) will be able to process your application much faster. Signing up to the update service also makes your certificate transferable between agencies saving you the cost of processing multiple certificates for every agency you join.

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