Teacher of the Deaf Inclusion, Sensory and Complex Healthcare
Citywide
Hours: 35 per week
Salary: £34, to £52, (pro rata for part time)
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:
1. Receiving referrals from health and education settings for specialist support.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Ensuring that schools and other settings apply for appropriate access arrangements for statutory assessments and examinations.
5. Supporting settings to assess and monitor educational and other outcomes.
6. Participation in multi-agency assessment to identify overall needs and progress of the deaf learner. Contribution to monitoring and review of progress.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Partnership workingwith a range of professionals including setting staff, Communication Support Workers, BSL Tutor, Audiologists, SLT.
10. Working with learners and families to provide clear impartial information, facilitating family and learner access to professional and extended services.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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. 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. An unconditional 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.
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