NEO (Nudge Education Online) is a fully online alternative provision for learners aged 11–18, from Nudge Education — a decade of relational, practitioner-led work with young people across the UK. We open our virtual doors in September 2026, and we are building the team as the school grows.
See open roles Join the educator talent poolNEO exists for young people who have been unable to access mainstream education — learners experiencing emotionally-based school non-attendance (EBSNA), managing SEMH difficulties, processing the effects of adverse experiences, or whose neurodivergence has never been properly met inside the conventional system. We teach towards Pearson Edexcel International GCSEs, Functional Skills and ASDAN, but qualifications are one outcome among several: belonging, self-understanding and agency matter at least as much.
Our pedagogy rests on six Cornerstones — Connection, Movement, Creativity, Reflection, Rest and Nutrition — and one governing idea: connection before curriculum. NEO is operated by Nudge Education Ltd and is pursuing accreditation through the DfE's Online Education Accreditation Scheme (OEAS), the route to DfE recognition for online providers.
Qualified, subject-specialist teachers deliver every live lesson — small, deliberately small groups, camera-optional, taught with depth and care towards real qualifications.
Every learner has a Practitioner-Mentor: their consistent point of contact, who mentors, co-ordinates with the teaching team, and holds the relationship with family and commissioner. Mentors don't teach — that boundary is deliberate, and it protects both roles.
Heads of Department, SEND and safeguarding leadership, and operational roles — building the school's systems from the inside, with a peer group doing the same.
Work from anywhere in the UK, with occasional in-person team days. Many roles are part-time or sessional by design, shaped to fit around substantive commitments.
Meeting commitments only by working unsustainable hours is treated as a signal to redesign the work — not as a success. We mean this, and we review against it.
Funded CPD in trauma-informed practice and online pedagogy, reflective supervision, named mentors — and for some roles, funded statutory qualifications such as the NPQ for SENCOs.
NEO is new. The systems, the curriculum, the culture — the people who join now build them. That is rare, and we treat it as the privilege it is.
All roles are UK-remote and employed or engaged by Nudge Education Ltd. Internal opportunities for existing Nudge Education colleagues are advertised separately through our internal channels — the roles below are open to external applicants.
Deliver NEO's live online lessons in your subject to small groups of learners working towards Pearson Edexcel International GCSEs, Functional Skills and ASDAN. Relational, adaptive, camera-optional teaching for learners who need the lesson to feel safe before it can feel like learning. We recruit to our educator pool on a rolling basis, and offer hours as the school grows. Read the full job description.
Apply — Safer Recruitment Application FormNothing that fits right now? Join the educator talent pool above, or write to neo@nudgeeducation.co.uk for an informal conversation about future roles.
We recruit the way we teach: relationally, transparently, and safely. Because our learners are among the most vulnerable in the country, every stage of this process is built around safer recruitment.
We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and make decisions on merit against the person specification. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage — including alternatives to the video elements — tell us and we will make them, no questions asked.
NEO is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all staff, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. Our recruitment follows the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2026, Part 3, and our own Safer Recruitment Policy.
Posts at NEO are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings which would not be filtered in line with current DBS filtering guidance.
Application data is processed in accordance with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, retained only as long as necessary and proportionate — see our recruitment privacy notice. Video submissions are stored securely, viewed only by the recruitment panel, and deleted in line with our retention schedule.