24/08/2026
🌟 Join Our Compassionate Team – Maths Instructor Wanted 🌟
📍 Location: The Lighthouse School, Easton
🕒 Hours: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Monday to Friday
💷 Salary: Competitive pay scale, dependent on experience and qualifications
Are you passionate about maths but, more importantly, passionate about helping young people believe that they can succeed?
At The Lighthouse School, we are a trauma-informed, attachment-aware school supporting young people who may have experienced significant adversity, disrupted education, SEND, SEMH needs or difficulties accessing mainstream education.
We are looking for a Maths Instructor to join our compassionate, skilled and slightly unconventional team.
For many of our students, maths hasn’t always been a subject they feel confident about. We’re looking for someone who can change that.
🌱 About The Lighthouse
Relationships and emotional wellbeing sit at the heart of everything we do.
Our students learn in a small, supportive environment where education is adapted around the needs of the young person. We recognise that a child needs to feel safe, understood and valued before they can truly engage in learning.
Our aim isn’t simply to teach maths — it is to help young people develop confidence, independence and the practical skills they will need beyond school.
➗ Your Role Will Include:
* Delivering engaging and accessible maths lessons to individuals and small groups
* Supporting students working across a range of abilities and starting points
* Delivering and supporting Functional Skills Maths, where appropriate
* Helping students develop practical, real-world maths skills including money, budgeting, measurements and problem solving
* Adapting teaching to meet individual SEND and SEMH needs
* Breaking learning into manageable steps for students who may have gaps in their education
* Building positive, trusting relationships with young people
* Creating a calm, predictable and emotionally safe learning environment
* Celebrating progress and helping students rebuild confidence in their own abilities
* Working collaboratively with our teaching, SEND and pastoral teams
* Contributing to assessments, progress monitoring and individual learning plans
👤 We’d Love to Hear From You If You:
* Have experience teaching, tutoring or delivering maths to children or young people
* Have a strong knowledge and confidence in mathematics
* Understand that behaviour is communication and are willing to look beyond the behaviour to understand the young person
* Can adapt your approach rather than expecting every student to learn in the same way
* Are patient, compassionate and consistent
* Have excellent communication skills
* Can bring creativity and real-life relevance into maths lessons
* Are reflective, resilient and able to work as part of a close-knit team
* Genuinely believe that every young person deserves the opportunity to succeed
Experience of working with SEND, SEMH, trauma, looked-after children or young people who have experienced disrupted education would be particularly welcomed.
🎓 Qualifications & Pay
We recognise that brilliant educators come through different routes.
We therefore welcome applications from candidates with a range of relevant qualifications and professional experience, including experienced instructors, tutors, teachers and professionals with strong maths knowledge who are passionate about working differently with young people.
Salary will be offered on a pay scale reflective of the successful candidate’s qualifications, teaching/instructional experience and relevant specialist experience.
💖 What We Offer
* Small class sizes and highly individualised learning
* A supportive and collaborative staff team
* A genuinely relationship-based approach to education
* Ongoing training in trauma-informed and attachment-aware practice
* Opportunities for professional development and progression
* A school culture that values staff wellbeing, mental health and kindness
* The freedom to be creative with learning and make maths relevant to real life
* Most importantly, the opportunity to make a meaningful difference to young people who may not previously have experienced success in education
☕ Come and Meet Us
We understand that The Lighthouse is a little different from a traditional school — and we’re proud of that.
We warmly welcome potential applicants to visit us, meet the team and see our approach in practice before applying.
Please contact Keith, to arrange an informal visit or conversation:
📧 [email protected]
🌟 Sometimes the most important thing we teach a young person isn’t the answer — it’s the belief that they are capable of finding it.