Maths Teacher at Dorchester Learning Centre

Job description

About the role

Dorchester Learning Centre is looking for an inspirational and dedicated Maths teacher to join our school in January 2027. This is a position that will allow you to focus on delivering personalised learning to our pupils and make a difference to the lives of young people. You will be working with a team who are passionate about helping our pupils to be the best that they can be. Our class sizes are small (8-10 pupils), with a Learning Mentor to support you. If putting children first in education matters to you, then we would love to hear from you.

You should be able to demonstrate:

• Previous experience of teaching Maths (to GCSE standard).
• Previous experience of working with pupils with ASD and SEMH.
• Ability to develop strong professional relationships with the young people who have complex needs and have often experienced significant difficulties in previous education settings.
• Creativity, compassion and dedication to take on additional professional development.
• Skills in planning and preparing learning activities to support the development within the national curriculum and improve social communication.
• Expertise to react calmly to challenging situations and behaviour and demonstrate the resilience needed to support children with high levels of anxiety.
• Develop guidance to support others to manage behaviour in a positive way.
• Experience in communicating frequently and effectively with colleagues and families about the needs of the children and regularly reviewing strategies and practice as their needs change.
• Aptitude to use your own initiative to meet young people's varying and complex needs.

This is an exciting time to join our wonderful school as we expand both our pupil numbers and our site at Monkton Park. We passionately believe that happy, highly respected employees are vital for the smooth running of our school. We therefore take the wellbeing of our staff very seriously and ensure that they all maintain a healthy work-life balance. Successful candidates will be prepared to work hard and respond to the daily challenges of school life but won't have any unreasonable demands placed upon them.

"Leaders and staff are persistent in modelling positive relationships. This distinctive feature sits at the heart of the school's work." OFSTED September 2026

We would encourage you to submit your application form as soon as possible.

Dorchester Learning centre educates pupils aged between 5 - 16, who can't access mainstream education for a variety of reasons. This might be for medical reasons, an SEMH need, dual registered placements with a mainstream school or pupils who have been permanently excluded from their mainstream provision. We are the only school in Dorset with the Trauma Informed School accreditation. We are a learning community that is child centred, putting the needs of our pupils first.

Visits to our school our highly recommended during the school day, so please don't hesitate to contact Debbie Guyler to arrange an appointment on 01305 261213 or email [email protected].

Further Information

Dorchester Learning Centrevalues the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from allsectors of the community.

We are committed tosafeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is acommitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successfulcandidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check inline with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.

Thisrole is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part ofthe appointment process.

Thispost is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Theamendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) providethat when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictionsand cautions are 'protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers,and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ'sguidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during jobapplications and related exceptions and further information about filteringoffences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

KeepingChildren Safe in Education

Dorchester Learning Centre willconduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of asafeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether anindividual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media andinternet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconsciousbias and any risk of discrimination, a person who is not on the appointmentpanel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and whenfindings are relevant and of concern.