MORE than 130 jobs vacancies are currently being advertised on the Dorset Council website – ranging from part-time posts paying £8,000 a year to a managers position at £62,500 a year.

Many of the positions are for schools across the county with the hope than the posts will be filled at, or close to, the start of the September term.

They include a meal-time supervisor at the Thomas Hardye School in Dorchester; a part-time receptionist at the Ferndown Upper School and various positions for teaching assistants, paying around £16,000 a year.

Other school-related positions include a passenger assistant, with jobs based at Bridport, Weymouth, Poole and Gillingham working up to 17 hours part-time during term time.

Other posts include a Weymouth-based case worker for children and young people with Special Educational Needs, paying between £26,400 and £30,300, with up to £62,600 available for a service manager, also based in Weymouth, leading a team working with children and families in the Chesil Partnership.

Experience working with children and families is also required for a social worker post at Wareham paying between £41,400 and £47,400 as part of the Dorset Council's 'Front Door' team, which is involved with triaging child safety cases. The post involves four-day a week working, although over more than nine hours a day, with occasional on-call duties, with the working week split between home-working and from the office.

Several social work posts are also available, in a range of teams, starting at £30,300 for a social work trainee and up to £44,400 for a child protection social worker.

In the council's Highways team there are vacancies for a bridges and structures engineer at up to £52,400 and a project team leader on the same grade.

Among the more unusual posts are a communications and marketing assistant at Weymouth Town Council paying £24,300 "coordinating social media content across the Council's different platforms, covering events, media liaison and media monitoring tasks" as well as generating social media content; and up to £30,300 for a Dorset Dogs Area Project Officer which involves promoting responsible dog ownership and "championing positive access management for people in the countryside, liaising with partners, land managers, conservation organisations, dog owners, dog related businesses and charities."