Teacher
The Wymering School, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO6 3YBThis job expired on 14 May 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
14 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
6 May 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
- MPR £31,650-£49,084 per annum
Additional allowances
£2,679 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Can see the strength in difference; who’s as comfortable thinking outside the box as they are building a new one and who knows that teaching is about connection, not just curriculum.
- Isreal. Someone who understands that behaviour is communication; that anxiety is exhausting; that connection is more powerful than correction.
- Doesn’t flinch at a hard day — and who knows that behind every challenge is a young person with a story that matters.
- Believes relationships are the foundation of learning.
- Who can help us create a place where our pupils feel safe, seen and celebrated.
- Embraces creativity over conformity.
- Finds joy in small steps and celebrates every spark of progress.
- Wants to be part of something transformative, not transactional.
- A sense of humour with a curious, open heart.
What the school offers its staff
- An inclusive and collaborative team
- A school where pupils surprise and inspire you daily
- A school where creativity isn’t a buzzword – it’s the heartbeat
- A place where laughter and learning go hand in hand
- A school and growing trust where you’ll have the opportunity to develop your career and whose ethos is encompassed in our vision “Learning together in pursuit of happiness”
Further details about the role
Teacher – The Wymering School
Full time, Permanent, MPR £31,650-£49,084 per annum plus SEN allowance – £2,679 per annum
September 2025 start date
The Wymering School – where extraordinary young people deserve extraordinary Teachers.
We’re not your typical school, and we’re not looking for a typical teacher. Let’s be honest: this isn’t the easiest job in the world – but it might just be the most meaningful.
About us
At The Wymering School, we’re building something special: a creative community where pupils and staff learntogetherto become knowledgeable, self-aware, independent and happy humans – the kind who go out into the world and make it better, in big and small ways.
Our pupils are neurodiverse, insightful, and full of potential. They experience social communication and interaction difficulties, alongside Speech, Language and Communication Needs, high anxiety, and sometimes distressed behaviour. But that’s not the full story… These young people are also funny, thoughtful, resilient, and brilliantly unique — and they deserve someone that we will create that environment to ensure they progress towards a happy life that they can enjoy.
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.
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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