Description
This role has a starting salary of £16,104.83 per annum (pro rata to £36,873 FTE), working 21.6 hours per week, 33 weeks per year from September – June.
Are you passionate about empowering young people to thrive in education and beyond? We're looking for a British Sign Language Interpreter to join our fantastic Physical and Sensory Support (PSS) FHE 16+ (Post 16) team in a peripatetic role, supporting students across colleges and universities in and around Surrey, with occasional remote (online) work.
The team is based in Weybridge but your work will be mostly in the educational settings where we support students in and around Surrey (requiring your own car for travel).
Rewards and Benefits
1. An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
2. Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
3. Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
4. A generous local government salary related pension
5. Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
6. 2 paid volunteering days per year
7. Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
8. CPD during work hours, regular coworking within a team and supervision, and funding towards NRCPD annual registration costs (for TSLI/RSLI).
About the Team
Physical and Sensory Support (PSS) is a targeted specialist education service. The FHE16+ Team within PSS consists of 23+ staff including specialist student support workers (SSWs), BSL interpreters, and advisory teachers for students who are deaf, vision-impaired or with multi-sensory impairments.
About the Role
In this role, you'll be part of a collaborative and supportive team within Physical & Sensory Support (PSS), working closely with other professionals to ensure that students who are deaf or vision-impaired can access and engage fully with their Further and Higher Education courses.
Your primary responsibility will be to provide high-quality BSL interpreting and communication support to post-16 students. Depending on your skills and qualifications, you may also support deaf parents at school events or deaf colleagues during training sessions and meetings, both in-person and online.
As this is a joint interpreter/SSW role, your main role will be as a BSL interpreter, but there will be times when you will also provide specialist notetaking support in-class to both deaf and vision-impaired students in colleges and universities on the occasions when there are no suitable interpreter bookings. If required, you will be given in-house notetaker training leading to a full Level 3 professional notetaking qualification, ensuring you're equipped to support students with a range of sensory needs.
You will attend work meetings as required and undertake continuing professional development (CPD) training during work hours.
You will need to have use of your own car to travel to different bookings during the work day, covering bookings between the hours of 9am and 5pm during 33 weeks of the year from September to June.
If you're driven by the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of young people and want to be part of a team that shares your values, we'd love to hear from you.
Shortlisting Criteria
To be considered for shortlisting for this position, your application will clearly evidence the following:
9. BSL/English interpreter status, either RSLI or TSLI (regulated by NRCPD)
OR
10. Level 3/6 BSL qualification and starting a recognised BSL/English interpreter training course with the view to becoming TSLI/RSLI (NB your salary will be at Surrey PS7 grade until you become TSLI/RSLI at PS8 paygrade, which is the advertised salary)
11. Awareness of the communication and access requirements of deaf people
12. Willingness to learn about supporting students with visual or multi-sensory impairment
13. Good communication and organisational skills
14. Good IT skills, with experience using MS Word, Outlook and calendars
15. Flexibility to support students in and around Surrey from 9-5pm, with use of own car for business purposes.
16. Ability to support students remotely (on occasions), working from home as necessary.
Contact us
Please contact us for any questions relating to the role. This could be to discuss flexible working requests, transferable skills or any barriers to employment.
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 30/08/2025 with interviews to follow.
We look forward to receiving your application,