Teacher of Deaf - Citywide

The City of Edinburgh Council; Easter Howgate; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Edinburgh Council is seeking a Teacher of Deaf Children and Young People for a citywide, peripatetic role across Edinburgh. You will work with deaf learners aged 0-18 in home, Early Years, primary, secondary and special school settings, providing specialist support and inclusive communication strategies.

Salary scale £36,159–£54,453 with 35 hours per week, 52 weeks per year. The post requires flexible location coverage within the city and commitment to PVG checks and inclusive

Responsibilities

• Receiving referrals for specialist deaf support.
• Conducting specialist assessments and interpreting audiological information.
• Testing hearing levels and monitoring hearing aid settings.
• Assessing communication and language levels across sign and spoken language.
• Fitting and monitoring assistive listening devices.
• Ensuring schools apply for access arrangements for statutory assessments.
• Participating in multi-agency assessment to identify needs and progress.
• Providing advice and training to learners, parents and staff on deafness implications.
• Direct teaching with enriched language input (1:1, small groups, or team teaching).
• Working with professionals including staff, BS L Tutor, Audiologists, SLT.
• Supporting transitions from birth through to post-school provision and adulthood.

Job description

Teacher Deaf Support - Inclusion, Sensory & Complex Healthcare Citywide

Salary: £36,159 - £54,453
Hours: 35 per week, 52 week per year

We are seeking to recruit a Teacher of Deaf Children and Young People. The successful candidate will be highly skilled and experienced in the role. As a member of the Deaf Support Team you will work with a range of deaf children and young people aged 0-18 at home and in Early Years establishments as well as the Primary, Secondary and Special School contexts. This is a peripatetic role and you must be able and willing to work anywhere in the City of Edinburgh as directed.

Please refer to the job specific requirements in the person specification before applying.

The role and responsibilities:

• Receiving referrals from health and education settings for specialist support.
• Specialist assessments and interpretation of results including audiological information. Testing and monitoring levels of deafness and monitoring hearing aid settings. Assessing and monitoring functional hearing levels. Assessing the full range of communication and language levels: including use of sign and spoken language and any other modes of communication.
• Monitoring the acoustic environment in the school environment and advising on ways to improve it for the deaf learner. Fitting and monitoring assistive listening devices.
  

Ensuring that schools and other settings apply for appropriate access arrangements for statutory assessments and examinations.

• Supporting settings to assess and monitor educational and other outcomes.
• Participation in multi-agency assessment to identify overall needs and progress of the deaf learner. Contribution to monitoring and review of progress.
• Provision of advice and training opportunities includingthe implications of deafness with the learner, parents and families, teachers, all involved agencies especially in the context of education.
• Direct teaching through an enriched language input which may includesmall group teaching, team teaching, 1:1 with the deaf learner, an individualised learning programme, pre/post tutoring.
• Partnership workingwith a range of professionals including setting staff, Communication Support Workers, BSL Tutor, Audiologists, SLT.
• Working with learners and families to provide clear impartial information, facilitating family and learner access to professional and extended services.
• Continuing Professional Development,keeping abreast of mainstream and specialist developments to inform practice keeping up to date with audiological developments and technological developments, using assessments and interpreting outcomes keeping abreast of strategies in education.
• Providing support to promote effective transition arrangements at key stages from birth through awareness raising, training, transfer of information and ensuring specialist equipment is in place in the new setting.
• Supporting students through transition into post school provision and independent adulthood
  

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. Anunconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions of Service for Teaching Staff in School Education.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Find out more about our commitment to equalities https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/inclusive-edinburgh/4

As part of our goal to improve organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure we're recruiting the best people. We’re interested not only in your skills and experience but also in your approach to work. Therefore, part of our interview process will be anassessment of how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Happy to talk flexible working.

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