About the role

Carey is a small specialist provision working with children and young people who find it difficult to attend mainstream education on a full-time basis. Some of our young people are children in care or children with a disability. We also work with children through our Virtual School and other local schools. Most of the work is 1:1 or sometimes even two or three staff to one young person depending on their needs.

We also run Short Breaks for children with low to moderate needs and this typically involves groups of 6. We also enjoy delivering specialist residential visits, generally for Dorset special schools or other groups such as Dorset foster families.

We use the outdoors as our classroom and have a fantastic 14‑acre site comprising mixed woodlands along with a traverse wall, low ropes course, indoor tunnels, archery and access to Wareham Forest. We also have a polytunnel which we use to grow vegetables that we use for creating healthy me...