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Salary:£31,650 - £49,084 per annum (plus SEN2)
Hours per week:32.5 hours, part time hours (19.5) will be considered.
Start Date: June 2025
Education and Skills - Building Bright Futures
Are you an experienced and dedicated teacher with a passion for making a difference? Our SEND team are looking for a qualified Advisory Teacher of Deaf Children and Young People to join their team!
Our innovative Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Service exists to improve outcomes and make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people with SEND, and their families, who require support to be included in their community.
Main duties of the job
As part of this role, you will provide support to families and advice to enable pre-schools, mainstream and special schools and colleges to enhance the effective education of children/young people with hearing impairment. You will be responsible for providing direct teaching to children and young people and planning visits to children and young people with hearing impairment according to their needs, within designated areas of the county. You will need to work closely with settings and health staff, children and young people and parents to ensure that the best possible outcomes are achieved.
We are seeking a qualified and experienced Teacher of Deaf Children and Young People to join the Wiltshire Sensory Impairment, Physical and Medical Needs Service. We are looking for someone who holds or is working towards the mandatory qualification in teaching deaf children and has recent experience working in an advisory capacity. We will consider teachers with a range of SEN experience and a proven track record of engaging successfully with parents and children or young people, and who will be willing to undertake a Diploma course in teaching children with hearing impairment.
About us
Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. Thats why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties
- Provide support and advice to enable pre-schools, mainstream and special schools and colleges
to enhance the effective education of children/young people with hearing impairment
- Assess individual needs and identify and find solutions to challenges in partnership with the staff
of educational settings and other agencies to maximise learning
- Provide direct teaching to children and young people as appropriate
- Plan visits to children and young people with hearing impairment according to their needs, within a
designated areas of the county, in accordance with the guidance and requirements agreed within
the Service
- Manage curriculum access for children/young people with a hearing impairment and through
monitoring, intervention and evaluation ensure that they are suitably challenged to maximise
learning.
- Develop the teaching and support practices of staff in educational settings
- Lead and develop training for education personnel and carers, in relation to the needs of
children/young people with hearing impairment
- Work in close co-operation with setting and health staff, children and young people and parents to
ensure that the best possible outcomes are achieved by working together
- Work in close co-operation with our SEND Lead Workers and Education Officers by providing
timely advice for EHC needs assessments and contributing to reviewing Education and Health
Care Plans
- Keep up-to-date with national, regional and local developments, and with advances in methods of
supporting children/young people with hearing impairment
- Liaise with statutory and voluntary bodies as appropriate
- Contribute to the development and implementation of policies within schools, pre-schools and post
16.
- Support Education Officers at Tribunal or in court when it is professionally appropriate to do so
Give advice to senior managers in formulating and reviewing education policies within the County.
- Attend team meetings and seek and offer peer support, advice and challenge
- Provide suitable programmes of work for specialist sensory TAs
- Contribute to the development and implementation of policies within the service and individual
team
- Contribute to the formulation, implementation and review of the service improvement plan and the
specialism team improvement plan
- Manage resources and provide information for the service database of equipment
- Provide advice and training in the use of specialist equipment for children with a hearing
impairment and keep up with technological changes in the field of HI
- Maintain appropriate records of all work undertaken and enter these on the service database
- Make use of data research and evidence based practice to raise pupil achievement
- Contribute to own performance review as set out in the Performance Management policy and
guidelines
- Undertake development opportunities to extend knowledge and skills.
Driving at work- The classification of this role is as a Regular driver. The post holder will Have a Driving Licence as an essential requirement of the job
- Be required to drive for most or all of their role
- Need to drive their own car
- Register with Fleet Services as a registered driver;
- Read and be familiar with the Driving at Work Policy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties
- Provide support and advice to enable pre-schools, mainstream and special schools and colleges
to enhance the effective education of children/young people with hearing impairment
- Assess individual needs and identify and find solutions to challenges in partnership with the staff
of educational settings and other agencies to maximise learning
- Provide direct teaching to children and young people as appropriate
- Plan visits to children and young people with hearing impairment according to their needs, within a
designated areas of the county, in accordance with the guidance and requirements agreed within
the Service
- Manage curriculum access for children/young people with a hearing impairment and through
monitoring, intervention and evaluation ensure that they are suitably challenged to maximise
learning.
- Develop the teaching and support practices of staff in educational settings
- Lead and develop training for education personnel and carers, in relation to the needs of
children/young people with hearing impairment
- Work in close co-operation with setting and health staff, children and young people and parents to
ensure that the best possible outcomes are achieved by working together
- Work in close co-operation with our SEND Lead Workers and Education Officers by providing
timely advice for EHC needs assessments and contributing to reviewing Education and Health
Care Plans
- Keep up-to-date with national, regional and local developments, and with advances in methods of
supporting children/young people with hearing impairment
- Liaise with statutory and voluntary bodies as appropriate
- Contribute to the development and implementation of policies within schools, pre-schools and post
16.
- Support Education Officers at Tribunal or in court when it is professionally appropriate to do so
Give advice to senior managers in formulating and reviewing education policies within the County.
- Attend team meetings and seek and offer peer support, advice and challenge
- Provide suitable programmes of work for specialist sensory TAs
- Contribute to the development and implementation of policies within the service and individual
team
- Contribute to the formulation, implementation and review of the service improvement plan and the
specialism team improvement plan
- Manage resources and provide information for the service database of equipment
- Provide advice and training in the use of specialist equipment for children with a hearing
impairment and keep up with technological changes in the field of HI
- Maintain appropriate records of all work undertaken and enter these on the service database
- Make use of data research and evidence based practice to raise pupil achievement
- Contribute to own performance review as set out in the Performance Management policy and
guidelines
- Undertake development opportunities to extend knowledge and skills.
Driving at work- The classification of this role is as a Regular driver. The post holder will Have a Driving Licence as an essential requirement of the job
- Be required to drive for most or all of their role
- Need to drive their own car
- Register with Fleet Services as a registered driver;
- Read and be familiar with the Driving at Work Policy.
Person Specification
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Person Specification
Experience
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Qualifications
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
