Current Vacancies
We are currently recruiting for the following vacancies:
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- Learning Support Assistant (LSA)
- Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
- Music Teacher
- Restore Practitioner
- Senior Restore Practitioner
- Head of English and Literacy
- PE & Sports Teacher
Learning Support Assistant (LSA)
- Starting Date: As soon as possible
- Closing Date: Wednesday, 4th February 2026
- Interview dates: 9th , 10th or 13th February 2026
- Salary: SCP 5 to 7 (£23,560 to £24,427)
- Location: Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent
Your role as a LSA will be integral to supporting the progress of all children at Oasis Restore, to help them to achieve their individual educational outcomes. We are looking to LSAs who are willing to work towards the HLTA qualification. You will be responsible for supporting with the delivery of a bespoke, skills-based curriculum; and working with individual children and small groups within the classroom to facilitate a personalised and aspirational education for all. You will work as part of an education team within departments and contribute to the regular assessment of the children you are working with as well as forming part of a core team around the child and feeding into formulation meetings to report on progress and next steps.
Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
- Start Date: As soon as possible
- Closing Date: Wednesday, 4th February 2026
- Interview dates: 9th , 10th or 13th February 2026
- Salary: SCP 18 to 22 (£29,860 to £32,147)
- Location: Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent.
Are you a qualified or aspiring Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) driven by a purpose to transform the lives of the most vulnerable children?
Do you have a keen interest in developing your knowledge, skills and practice to support with learning across the school?
Do you see relationships as fundamental to your work with children, families, and the wider community?
Do you want to be a part of an innovative and courageous team developing the UK’s first secure school?
We are offering an exciting opportunity for qualified or aspiring HLTAs to join the team in contributing to and supporting teachers and Head of Departments with delivering an outstanding curriculum and high-quality learning opportunities at the UK’s first secure school. Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a truly restorative environment, that creates the potential for them to thrive in the future. You will be key to delivering a curriculum that provides nurturing, therapeutic and educational community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children in our care. Come and develop your career within an organisation dedicated to transforming lives.
The role and what we are looking for: Your role as a HLTA will be integral to supporting the progress of all children at Oasis Restore, to help them to achieve their individual educational outcomes. You will be responsible for supporting the delivery of a bespoke, skills-based curriculum; and working with individual children and small groups within the classroom to facilitate a personalised and aspirational education for all. You will work as part of an education team within departments and contribute to the regular assessment of the children you are working with as well as forming part of a core team around the child and feeding into formulation meetings to report on progress and next steps. You will be responsible for working with teachers to deliver lessons that develop curious and dedicated learners and meet their individual needs and interests.
You will have the opportunity to feed into and continuously contribute to a creative curriculum underpinned by progressive pedagogies, in line with the national curriculum, setting a true gold standard for learning. You will be an integral part of a passionate, committed, and ground-breaking multidisciplinary team, working integratively towards improving the outcomes for children so often overlooked. Together, we will devise strategies to empower children to take ownership of their own learning journeys, so preparing them for successful transitions into the next phase of their journey.
As a champion of restorative practice, you will place relational connection at the heart of everything you do. Your work will be the driving force that enables children to transition out of Oasis Restore with the support in place for them to succeed in the next step of their journeys
Music Teacher
- Starting Date: As soon as possible
- Closing Date: Wednesday, 4th February 2026
- Interview dates: 9th , 10th or 13th February 2026
- Salary: MPS 1 to 6 (£32,916 to £45,352) + Teacher Pension Scheme (TPS) (or prorated if part time)
- Location: Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent.
Do you believe in the right of all children to play, create, and experience music?
Do you believe in the power of music to transform children’s lives?
Do you want to be a part of a new way of teaching and a courageous team developing the UK’s first secure school?
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a practicing musician or music leader/teacher to join the team in contributing to and delivering an outstanding curriculum at the UK’s first secure school. We recognise the power of music to transform young lives, build confidence, raise aspirations, and support the development of personal skills. We anticipate that music will be an integral route to connecting with our children as well as to upskilling them for life beyond the justice system in the music industry and/or beyond. Whether you are a qualified music teacher, a passionate performer, or a music tutor, we are looking for people who want to make a difference to the lives of children in custody. If you are a skilled and passionate musician and would like to invest in children, we would love to hear from you.
Whilst the role is advertised as full time, we know that what is most important for our children is having the opportunity to work with people who are keen to invest in them and who are practicing, skilled musicians – and that they may not be available for a full-time role. We are keen to consider flexible working requests including part time working. When considering any such requests we would review this against our operating requirements. If you would be interested in exploring whether we could potentially accommodate your desired flexible working pattern or not, please state this in the additional sheet within the application form providing as much detail as possible or get in touch. Our full-time working patterns are Monday to Friday at 35 hours per week.
Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a truly restorative environment, that creates the potential for them to thrive in the future. As a founding teacher, you will play a key role in designing and delivering a music curriculum that provides nurturing, therapeutic and educational community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children in our care. Come and develop your career within an organisation dedicated to transforming lives.
Restore Practitioner
- Closing date: 5pm on Monday, 12th January 2026
- Interviews: Week commencing 26th January 2026
- Salary: £38,939 to £42,729 – inclusive of an unsocial hour’s allowance payment worth up to £6,792 per annum, plus Local Government Pension Scheme
- Working Hours: Shift work - days, earlies, nights, evenings and weekends.
- Location: Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent.
Do you want to be part of a revolution in Youth Justice?
Are you passionate about working with children who are on remand or sentenced?
Do you have a gift for balancing kindness with structure?
If you said yes to any of the above, then we have an opportunity for you like no other!
Following a period of internal building works coupled with a comprehensive learning review with all our staff over our therapeutic processes and what we have learnt so far on this revolutionary journey; we are offering a hugely exciting opportunity for people with relevant personal and professional experience to come and join our growing team of Restore Practitioners. This will be an amazing opportunity for those with the correct skillset to come and work with our new cohort of students.
As a Restore Practitioner, you will join our key frontline residential department as well as being part of the wider Oasis Restore team dedicated to nurturing children from challenging backgrounds. You will be guiding them toward positive futures in the UK’s first Secure Academy Trust to educate children in custody.
The school is all year-round, offering 24/7 integrated and therapeutically informed education, health and social care, which means you will be working shift patterns.
Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a restorative environment that creates the potential for them to thrive both now and for the future. Restore Practitioners will build and model healthy and trusting relationships with children that enable them to feel safe, learn and reach their full potential.
Our Academy
Oasis Restore is the country’s first secure school that is a proof-of-concept policy initiative funded by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Oasis Restore’s mission is to transform the life chances of children aged 12-18 years in the criminal justice system through delivering psychologically informed, integrated practice that centres on trusted, safe relationships between staff and children. Oasis Restore is a learning community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children beyond the secure school. To read more about us please visit our website www.oasisrestore.org.
The role and what we are looking for:
This isn’t just any role—it’s an ever-evolving, hands-on position where you’ll create a safe, home-like environment in a custodial setting.
You’ll be responsible for fostering self-esteem, teaching life skills, setting boundaries, and introducing children to new interests and experiences. A therapeutic approach is essential, as you’ll help our youth navigate their journeys with compassion, structure, and resilience.
As our student numbers increase Restore Practitioners will work across each of the 12 residential flats at Oasis Restore, taking primary responsibility for the children living in this flat and working within an inter-disciplinary team around each child.
You will work within a team which includes experienced social care managers and therapists as well as working with teaching staff to support the children’s engagement in education and wider school activities. You will play an active role in the school’s enrichment programme, delivering sessions which promote the development of the whole child.
In addition to delivering and supporting enrichment programs, you’ll ensure our safeguarding standards are rigorously upheld and keep our systems updated. Your attention to these protocols will play a crucial role in keeping our children safe and supported.
At Oasis Restore we provide extensive training, but we also welcome your unique perspective and flair. You will be passionate about making a difference to the children’s lives, empathetic in your approach to them and to your colleagues, patient, hopeful, forgiving, and able to behave with a curious mindset in your approach. You will have integrity, respect for others and their different life experiences and backgrounds and will understand and be able to maintain professional relationships and boundaries and have an unwavering commitment to child safeguarding.
Your experience, combined with our guidance, will empower you to make a genuine impact.
If you’re ready for a challenging yet deeply fulfilling role, we’d love to hear from you.
Join us as a Restore Practitioner and be part of something truly transformative.
Senior Restore Practitioner
- Start date: March 2026
- Closing date: 5pm on Monday, 12th January 2026
- Interviews: Week commencing 26th January 2026
- Salary: £44,399 - £48,189 - which includes a £5,460 Restore management allowance, as well as £6,792 unsocial hours payment per annum (subject to eligibility criteria) plus Local Government Pension Scheme
- Working Hours: Shift work - days, earlies, nights, evenings and weekends.
- Location: Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent
Can you see yourself in a senior role, taking responsibility for the children and staff within one of our three residential houses?
Do you want to be part of a revolution in Youth Justice?
Are you passionate about working with children who are on remand or sentenced?
Do you have a gift for balancing kindness with structure? If you said yes to any of the above, then we have an opportunity for you like no other!
Following a period of internal building works coupled with a comprehensive learning review with all our staff over our therapeutic processes and what we have learnt so far on this revolutionary journey; we are offering a hugely exciting opportunity for people with relevant personal and professional experience to come and join our team of Senior Restore Practitioners. This will be an amazing opportunity for those with the correct skillset to come and work with our new cohort of students.
The role and what we are looking for? Your role as First Line Manager, will be to inspire and develop Restore Practitioners, manage and partake in activities, and provide and sustain a sense of safety, care and boundaries. You will be an important figure for children and staff in each of the houses, representing a caring, fair and structured source of authority, who is present and involved in daily life
Head of English and Literacy
- Start date: As soon as possible
- Closing date: Wednesday , 4th February 2026
- Interviews: 11th , 12th or 19th February 2026
- Salary: ( RLG 1) £51,773 to (RLG 5) £57,137 + Teachers Pensions Scheme (TPS)
- Location: Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent
Are you driven by a purpose to transform the lives of the most vulnerable children?
Do you see relationships as fundamental to your work with children, families, and the wider community?
Do you want to be a part of an innovative and courageous team developing the UK’s first secure school?
Do you want to lead the UK’s first English and Literacy curriculum within a secure school setting?
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Head of English and Literacy to join the leadership team in running the UK’s first secure school. Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a truly restorative environment, that creates the potential for them to thrive in the future. The Head of English and Literacy will lead the implementation and monitoring of a curriculum that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children in our care. Come and develop your career within an organisation dedicated to transforming lives.
The role and what we are looking for: Your role as the Head of English and Literacy will be integral to the progress of all children at Oasis Restore, to deliver aspirational educational outcomes and raise standards in literacy across the cohort. You will be responsible for leading the English and Literacy curriculum that develops the needs of children, is informed by their interests, and prepares them for the future.
You will oversee and run a creative curriculum underpinned by metacognitive pedagogies, in line with the national curriculum, setting a true gold standard for learning. Supported by a team of professionals, you will play a key role in coordinating the work of your team and specialist health to assess and devise strategies to successfully engage children in their own learning journeys. You will lead a team to deliver tailored support to all students, across the home and school, to prepare them for successful transitions into the next phase of their journey. You will be a champion of restorative practice, placing relational connection at the heart of everything you do
PE & Sports Teacher
- Start date: As soon as possible
- Closing date: Wednesday , 4th February 2026
- Interviews: 11th , 12th or 13th February 2026
- Salary: (MPS 1 to MPS 6) £32,916 - £45,352 + Teachers Pensions Scheme (TPS) (or prorated if part time)
- Location: Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent
Do you see relationships as fundamental to your work with children, families, and the wider community?
Do you have a keen interest in developing your knowledge, skills and practice?
Do you want to be a part of an innovative and courageous team developing the UK’s first secure school?
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a teacher P.E and Sport to join the team in contributing to and delivering an outstanding curriculum at the UK’s first secure school. We are looking for people with experience of teaching or a career in trade looking to make a transition into teaching and make a difference to the lives of children in custody.
Whilst the role is advertised as full time, we can consider flexible working requests such as part time working by the successful candidate. When considering any such requests we would match this against our operating requirements. If you would be interested in exploring whether we could potentially accommodate a flexible working pattern or not, please can you state this in the additional sheet within the application form providing as much detail as possible. Our full-time working patterns are Monday to Friday at 35 hours per week.
Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a truly restorative environment, that creates the potential for them to thrive in the future. As a founding teacher, you will play a key role in designing and delivering a curriculum that provides nurturing, therapeutic and educational community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children in our care. Come and develop your career within an organisation dedicated to transforming lives.
Your role as a PE and/or sport teacher will be integral to the progress of all children at Oasis Restore, to deliver aspirational educational outcomes. You will be responsible for outstanding teaching that develops curious and dedicated learners and meets their individual needs and interests and improves their physical and mental health. You will have the opportunity to teach a second subject area, developing your own practice with the necessary support to deliver consistently outstanding teaching. You will launch and continuously contribute to a creative curriculum underpinned by progressive pedagogies, in line with the national curriculum, and a variety of formal qualifications, setting a true gold standard for learning.
You will be an integral part of a passionate, committed, and ground-breaking multidisciplinary team, working integratively towards improving the outcomes for children so often overlooked. Together, we will devise strategies to empower children to take ownership of their own learning journeys, so preparing them for successful transitions into the next phase of their journey. You will teach class sizes of 5 children, with the support of two additional staff to tailor learning support to each student, in a specially designed education building with brand new technology and software. As a champion of restorative practice, you will place relational connection at the heart of everything you do. Your work will be the driving force that enables children to transition out of Oasis Restore with the support in place for them to succeed in the next step of their journeys.
Sodexo will be providing the catering for children, young people and staff at Oasis Restore.
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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) will be providing the healthcare for children and young people at Oasis Restore.
