More than 130 job vacancies are currently being advertised on the Dorset Council website.
They range from part-time posts paying £8,000 a year to a manager’s 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.
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 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.”
It pays up to £30,300.
All the job vacancies can be seen at https://www.jobs.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/