Personal Development Teacher
Salary: Unqualified – Main Pay Scale (Fringe)
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week – Term Time Only
Closing Date: 27 October 2025
Starting Date: December 2025
Can you make the difference to the lives of our students? Do you like to be challenged? Are you solution focused?
Do you want to be part of our SEMH school?
This could be the job for you.
West Heath School is a challenging place to work, but our dedicated staff rebuild live through education. Teaching respect, encouraging responsibility, building relationships, and developing resilience in our students is an integral part of the role. Our committed, dynamic, and resourceful staff find working at West Heath School rewarding. We are currently on an exciting journey to be registered as a therapeutic community and welcome staff who follow this ethos.
If you would like to be part of our journey to support students’ lives, we are looking for a Personal Development Teacher to join our team as part of our provision.
As part of the Personal Development Department, you will take a lead in teaching PSCHE. At West Heat we use the Jigsaw PSHE package to deliver these lessons weekly with year 7 – 11. Lessons need to be appropriately adapted to engage all pupils and ensure they can access the content. You will be a key member of a wider team who supports young people with their understanding of their own brains and neurodiversity, teaching techniques to support their wellbeing and skills to prepare them for adulthood. Additionally, a key task will be to feed into our work experience programme, supporting students to find work placements and meeting with a network of potential businesses and companies that might be able to provide work experiences for our student.
Whilst the ideal candidate may not need to be a qualified teacher they would be required to have experience in working with SEND or SEMH in a teaching and learning environment.
As a school we are proud to promote the development of life skills and social development as equal to academic achievement. West Heath School works towards the end goal of helping students re-integrate into mainstream learning and preparation for adulthood.
Please complete and submit the Equality and Diversity Form alongside your Application Form.
Working at West Heath School involves close and unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups including children and as such is a regulated activity. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post (including an Enhanced DBS check. Management positions will require a 128 Check.)