Job Introduction
Early Years Class Teacher Maternity Cover Vacancy
- Post Ref:1184
- Division: Special Schools
- Section: Winchelsea School
- Salary details: Teachers Pay Scale, SEN1
- Employment Status: Full Time
- Closing date: 12 October 2025
- Interview date: TBC
Start Date: As Soon As Possible
Winchelsea School is a community special school committed to meeting the needs of pupils, aged 4 to 19, with a wide range of learning difficulties. We work in collaboration with a number of local schools, running successful satellite provision in classrooms at Old Town Infant School, Canford Heath Junior School, Kinson Academy and Magna Academy. In addition, we run Post 16 provision from Broadstone Youth Centre and Bourne Community Hub.
Governors wish to appoint an additional innovative, resilient, enthusiastic and committed teacher to cover the maternity leave of an existing Early Years teacher. It is anticipated that this temporary contract will run for 12 months.
Experience of Early Years special needs education, in particular of severe and complex learning difficulties would be beneficial but a passion and desire to work in this field of education is considered the most important factor.
Applicants should be highly motivated, thrive on the challenge of educating pupils with special educational needs and be fully committed to raising standards. Candidates should be:
- Experienced in working with pupils who have special educational needs in a special or mainstream context or be able to demonstrate that they have a genuine passion and desire to work in a special school.
- Experience of working in Early Years.
- Able to demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge.
- Able to demonstrate an ability to use specialised communication techniques in working with children with complex needs.
- Creative, committed and passionate with high expectations of themselves and others.
- Able to build positive relationships with children and all relevant stakeholders.
- Flexible and possess a positive approach to change and challenge, demonstrating a willingness to contribute to the school's vision and goals and to its improvement agenda.
Candidates should be aware that we run eight satellite classrooms, based at local schools. All staff may be required to work at any of these locations, at any given time.
Should you wish to apply for this vacancy, please review the job description and complete the application form which can be found at www.winchelseaschool.co.uk/vacancies. Please send your completed application form to recruitment@winchelsea.poole.sch.uk.
Applications are welcome from both ECT and experienced teachers.
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and encouraged. Please contact Melanie Cox m.cox@winchelsea.poole.sch.uk or telephone 01202 746240 if you wish to arrange a visit.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, and rigorous checks of shortlisted candidates background credentials.
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Our Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package to colleagues. Find out more on our website
As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils.
We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service. If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.
DBS
BCP Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the community and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Applicants to this post will be required to complete the appropriate level of Disclosure & Barring Service Check. Please refer to the Job Description or Role Profile for more details.
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