diff --git a/pytensor/link/numba/dispatch/elemwise.py b/pytensor/link/numba/dispatch/elemwise.py
index aad741c67d..256b6bb63d 100644
--- a/pytensor/link/numba/dispatch/elemwise.py
+++ b/pytensor/link/numba/dispatch/elemwise.py
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ def dimshuffle_inner(x, shuffle):
 
         @numba_basic.numba_njit
         def dimshuffle_inner(x, shuffle):
-            return x.item()
+            return np.reshape(x, ())
 
     # Without the following wrapper function we would see this error:
     # E   No implementation of function Function(<built-in function getitem>) found for signature:
diff --git a/tests/link/numba/test_elemwise.py b/tests/link/numba/test_elemwise.py
index 8fbf026e11..54778bda92 100644
--- a/tests/link/numba/test_elemwise.py
+++ b/tests/link/numba/test_elemwise.py
@@ -211,6 +211,14 @@ def test_Dimshuffle(v, new_order):
     )
 
 
+def test_Dimshuffle_returns_array():
+    x = at.vector("x", shape=(1,))
+    y = 2 * at_elemwise.DimShuffle([True], [])(x)
+    func = pytensor.function([x], y, mode="NUMBA")
+    out = func(np.zeros(1, dtype=config.floatX))
+    assert out.ndim == 0
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "careduce_fn, axis, v",
     [