Job Introduction
Broadening Horizons Together
Coastal Learning Partnership are seeking to fill a number of teaching positions within our schools, across the full primary phase, commencing September 2025. In return for your commitment to our schools, we can offer supportive environments with effective leaders, an ongoing programme of development, professional networks and an empowering appraisal process which centres on your own career objectives. ECTs are welcome to apply.
Coastal Learning Partnership is a family of twenty church and community primary phase schools, located across Bournemouth, Poole and the Purbeck area of Dorset. We are fortunate enough to work in some of the most beautiful locations in the country, with supportive leaders, valued colleagues and engaged communities. CLP’s core values are ‘serve’, ‘inspire’ and ‘empower ’and we hope that some early sense of those values comes through the attached information pack. Our schools serve one another and, in turn, are served by a central team. Our Headteachers are empowered to confidently lead their schools’ ongoing improvement journeys and we all draw inspiration from each other along the way.
How to Apply: Please send a completed application form to recruitment@coastalpartnership.co.uk
If you have a preferred Key Stage or location of school then please put this at the top of your Supporting Statement. Please also detail if you are looking for Part-Time hours.
Closing Date: This advert will close as soon as we have enough suitable applications to proceed with a selection process
To comply with our statutory safer recruitment practices and obligations, we are unable to shortlist incomplete applications. Please ensure you include a full employment and education history, details of two referees and explain any gaps in employment. CVs will not be accepted from external candidates.
Coastal Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment.
The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate that they meet the essential elements of the person specification and will be subject to pre-employment checks including a health check, and Enhanced DBS check, Child Barred List check and satisfactory references. We will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern. Applicants are advised that it is an offense to apply for the role if they are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
CLP is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants who meet the person specification will receive equal consideration for employment. We value the fact that our schools are very different, as are our colleagues within them. Our culture is one in which colleagues serve and inspire each other in the spirit of professional generosity; colleagues are empowered to be themselves and to be their best. At CLP, everyone is welcome and encouraged to achieve and be heard.
