Qualified Science Teacher (QTS)
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 August 2025 |
| Location: | Lymington, SO41 5QB |
| Company: | The Cambian Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 19614 |
Summary
Qualified Science Teacher
Location: Southlands School, Lymington
Hours: 40 per week - 39 weeks per annum
Salary: Up to £42,000 per annum
Make a Difference Every Day
The role a teacher at Southlands School, an Ofsted rated Outstanding autism specialist setting, is vitally important in ensuring our student’s flourish. The demands of working in specialist education require flexibility, adaptability and enthusiasm from the post holder.
At Southlands School there is an emphasis on high quality teaching and learning where purposeful teaching, high expectations, the monitoring of progress and positive reinforcement through a robust pastoral system, are a must. The Education Team works together with the Clinical and Care Teams to meet the needs of our students, offer a shared vision and goals and ensure positive home-school partnerships.
Candidate Profile
We are looking for somebody who has drive and vision and who is passionate about the teaching profession and committed to a high quality service. If you have an interest in working with special needs students this is an ideal place to use your skills in this highly rewarding and challenging field of education. Our teaching takes place in small classes with Teaching Assistant support. Working as part of a committed team, we need someone who can cater for the diverse needs of our students, therefore you need to be:
- · Well organised and able to plan a structured learning environment.
- · Practical, creative and inventive.
- · Enthusiastic and energetic.
- · Able to interact with people in a variety of ways.
- · Looking to develop expertise in special needs and Autism.
- · Dynamic and proactive.
- · A contributor to the schools multi - disciplinary team approach.
- · Managing complex behaviours.
- · Experience of planning, delivering and assessing learning activities appropriate to individuals’ needs and abilities
Qualifications and Requirements
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Current car driving license with no disqualifications or serious offences within past 3 years (only scored where minibus driving required)
The main responsibilities are following schemes of work, lesson planning, delivering the curriculum to a class group and supporting students with ASD in learning activities and personal skills.
You will be responsible for planning and delivering engaging and memorable learning experiences, following Southlands School curriculum and you will have the opportunity to work as part of an integrated skilled multi-disciplinary team, aiming to expand the horizons and improve the skills of young people.
The young people we educate and care for come to us with a huge variety of needs and difficulties. Our challenge is to help them build the hope, confidence, knowledge and skills to unlock their potential.
From innovative educational experiences to national curriculum programmes, supported by passionate teams of specialists and key workers, we actively enable each young person to achieve their personal best, all in an environment that best suits them.
Although Cambian are a sponsored employer, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship to any new candidates at this time.
Cambian is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Cambian is committed to Safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks.
Cambian 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.