A permanent part-time teaching post at Haymoor Junior School, part of the TEACH Poole Multi Academy Trust, helping to set up its new specialist provision for pupils aged 7 to 11 with social, emotional and mental health needs. The core of the work is leading learning for a small group of KS2 pupils through a personalised, trauma-informed approach built on routine and emotional safety. The post runs mornings only at 0.6 and starts January 2027. Qualified Teacher Status is required; visa sponsorship is not available.
What the job involves
- Deliver structured, personalised lessons adapted to pupils' developmental, emotional and learning needs
- Create a safe, predictable and nurturing learning environment built on trust
- Use assessment and pupil-level data to track progress in small steps
- Adapt teaching to a wide range of abilities, emotional needs and barriers to learning
- Apply positive behaviour approaches based on co-regulation, emotional coaching and repair
- Build supportive relationships with pupils, parents and carers
- Work with colleagues and external professionals to support holistic pupil outcomes
- Uphold safeguarding responsibilities and high professional standards
What’s required
Qualifications
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
Experience
- Experience of teaching in the primary phase
Skills & knowledge
- Strong understanding of early childhood development
- Understanding of the impact of trauma, attachment and anxiety on learning and behaviour
- Ability to create highly differentiated, personalised learning experiences
- Managing behaviour through relational, trauma-informed and inclusive approaches
- Patience, emotional regulation and calm, consistent modelling of behaviour
- Working collaboratively and sharing responsibility for planning and practice
Checks & eligibility
Other
- Resilience, creativity, enthusiasm and a positive, can-do attitude
- Demonstrates the Trust's Required Skills for a Class Teacher in an Inclusion Base
What’s offered
- Excellent pension contributions
- Excellent induction programme
- Clear career pathways from ECT through to leadership
- Trust-wide commitment to staff wellbeing and work-life balance
- Access to the Trust's Employee Assistance Programme
- Long-service awards
- Opportunity to take time off during term time