About The Service
The Vision Impairment Team work as part of Achievement and Inclusion within Education and Lifelong Learning to support children and young people with vision impairments from birth to 19+ depending on their educational settings. We work in all settings, including nurseries, private day care settings, mainstream and specialist schools, and some post-16 provision. Our role is to support the development and learning of children with Vision impairments, and to support their inclusion and access to education ensuring that they are able to achieve their full potential.
You would be joining an enthusiastic and dynamic team fully committed to ensuring the best possible outcomes for children and young people with vision impairments.
About the job
If filled by a qualified teacher of children with vision impairments this role would attact MPS/UPS + 2 SEN points. If qualification needs to be undertaken, the role would be paid at MPS/UPS + 1 SEN point until qualification was complete. The successful candidate must be prepared to undertake two years of mandatory distance learning including Braille if they do not already have these qualifications.
The role involves a wide range of different experiences - working across the age range and across all settings. We work with children and young people with vision impairments, their families, and with the professionals around them to raise awareness, increase expertise and knowledge, to advocate, and to model and support excellent inclusive practice in the field of vision impairment.
Although there is some direct teaching, a large part of the role involves working with organisations to create change.
What We Are Looking For From You
The successful candidate would need to be flexible, empathetic, with a strong understanding of what good quality teaching and learning looks like. They would need to be able to adapt their teaching and interactive style to suit a range of ages, settings and situations, and be able to build strong professional relationships that help to drive change constructively.
A strong understanding of ICT with an emphasis on access technology, its strengths and limitations, would be an advantage, as would a good understanding of the way in which Additional Learning Needs strategies work within the wider educational structure.
The world of education is a fast-changing one, and the successful candidate would need to be able to take a positive approach to working in such an environment of change.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate the ability to undertake further study, or will have the Mandatory Qualification QTVI.
They will need to be able to undertake a peripatetic role which involves travel over Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.
Additional information
This post is part time and will work 16.2 hours per week (0.5 FTE). The salary shown however relates to 32.4 hours per week and will therefore be pro-rata’d accordingly.
This post has a requirement for registration with the Education Workforce Council.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Safeguarding and Child Protection are key priorities for the Council. We aim to support children and vulnerable adults to ensure they are as safe as they can possibly be. Our services and schools are committed to ensuring the safety and protection of all children and vulnerable adults, and will take action to safeguard their well-being, and acknowledge that children and vulnerable adults have a right to protection. This is supported in the general ethos of the Council and all schools.
We welcome applications in both English and Welsh. Applications received in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than English applications.
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