Adventure Learning Instructor - Delta Bespoke
The Wymering School, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO6 3YB15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
12 March 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £21,730-£33,901 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
As part of the Delta Education Trust, Delta Bespoke manages and runs a series of Outdoor Education Centres for young people. Our vision,Happiness in the Pursuit of Learningembodies our passion for creating learning and educational opportunities for students who find being in the classroom difficult.
Are you an enthusiastic individual who can bring this vision to life and make a real difference to the lives and future prospects of our young people, if so then this role is for you.
Your role within Delta Bespoke’s Adventure Learning team will be to teach at The Wymering School, based in Cosham, Portsmouth. The school teaches students with a variety of social communication and interaction difficulties, associated Speech, Language & Communication Difficulties (neurodiverse profile) and high levels of anxiety and/or associated distressed behaviour. We endeavour to help our learners to feel they matter and belong, enabling them to improve their social, emotional and academic skills to be the best that they can be.
Our Adventure Learning centre provides an outdoor education curriculum for 9 -16-year-olds. Based in Portsmouth, the centre’s location provides us with a wide range of excellent nearby locations for bushcraft, stand up paddleboarding, mountain biking, kayaking and more.
We are looking for someone who holds multiple relevant NGB’s (Paddle UK Level 2, RCI, ML, British Cycling MTB Leader etc). Teaching/youth work qualifications would be desirable and experience working with students of this nature.
The role will involve planning and developing ‘out-of-the-classroom’ learning opportunities, using a wide range of outdoor activities for all students. The successful candidate will be responsible for the ongoing progress of their students. They should also have a particular interest in teaching students with special educational needs, including those with behavioural, emotional and social issues.
The successful applicant will be a highly motivated and flexible individual who can form positive relationships with students with a wide range of special needs in order to make a positive difference.
At Delta, we really care about our pupils and their attitude towards learning. We pride ourselves on creating exciting learning environments and innovative curriculums suitable for all ages and abilities. With Delta Bespoke, pupils learn together to become knowledgeable, self-aware, independent and emotionally regulated. Creating students who are happy with themselves, brave enough to cope and confident enough to make positive decisions, wherever life takes them.
Delta Bespoke takes great care to recruit the very best people so that the services we provide are outstanding. We believe that the best work gets done in an environment that’s enjoyable and which values, supports and encourages the development of its employees. With that in mind, we support our staff in achieving all relevant outdoor qualifications needed.
Please contact Jack Galloway (Head of Adventure Education at Delta Bespoke) atj.galloway@delta-bespoke.comfor more information and to arrange a tour.
The Wymering School is a Special Free School, an important part of the local community, which will cater for 66 children between 9 and 16 years of age who have an Education and Health Care Pl Our pupils have a social communication and interaction difficulties, associated Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties (a neurodiverse profile) and high levels of anxiety and / or associated challenging and distressed behaviour.
If you are enthusiastic, organised, and ready to be part of a team that truly makes a difference, we’d love to hear from you!
What the school offers its staff
- A warm and welcoming school where everyone belongs.
- A supportive leadership team that values your ideas and ambitions.
- Opportunities for professional growth and career progression.
- The chance to make a genuine impact.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Please ensure a full work history is completed in your application form including any gaps of employment. Applicants will be required to complete satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) check is required for this post prior to commencement. The Trust is an equal opportunities employer.
If successfully shortlisted we would carry out an individual online search to demonstrate due diligence following the updated ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022' guidance.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to HR@deltaeducationtrust.com
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Wymering School
- School type
- Free School, ages 9 to 16
- School size
- 65 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Wymering School website
- Email address
- HR@deltaeducationtrust.com
Our new school opened in April and we are now looking to grow our amazing team ready for the next intake of pupils in September. A brand new, purpose-built school, truly in the heart of its community; the choices you make with the pupils and the creativity you bring to the classroom will give the children the opportunities they deserve.
At the Wymering School our vision is to build a creative community which learns together to become knowledgeable, self aware, independent and happy people who make a positive difference, wherever life takes them.
Learning can look different for everyone; learning is continuous and enabled by the broad curriculum, therapeutic interventions, and the environment the school and staffing team create. It’s only through your awesome teaching that we will create that environment together to ensure the pupils progress towards a happy life that they can enjoy.
Staff are an inclusive and collaborative team that work together, no matter what the challenge may be are ready to face it head on and are committed to seeing it through - together.
The Wymering School is a Special Free School, an important part of the local community, caters for 66 children between 9 and 16 years of age who have an Education and Health Care Plan.
So why should you choose The Wymering School? Our pupils have a social communication and interaction difficulties, associated Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties (a neurodiverse profile) and high levels of anxiety and / or associated challenging and distressed behaviour and this is why they deserve you.
You will have the opportunity to develop your career in a School and Delta Education Trust, a small but growing Trust. Our ethos is encompassed in our vision “Learning together in pursuit of happiness”. We put this into practice by ensuring:
• All decisions are made in the best interests of staff, students and families.
• High support, high challenge and evidence informed in everything we do.
• We work collaboratively and make team, not individual, decisions.
• We acknowledge our mistakes and use them to learn and improve.
• We are always open to learning and seeking new ideas.
Arranging a visit to The Wymering School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@deltaeducationtrust.com.
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