Peripatetic Teacher Of The Deaf
Proposed Interview Date: Monday 19 August 2024
Closing Date: Tuesday 30 July 2024
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £32,217.00 to £48,516.00
Working Pattern: 35 Hours per week
Location: Fife House, Glenrothes
Purpose and Values of Education & Children’s Services Directorate
The Education & Children’s Services Directorate is committed to Improving Life Chances for All through a wide range of direct services which support our children, young people, families and the wider Fife community. Our approach to improvement is rooted in our core values: Compassion, Ambition, Respect and Equity which reflect the ethos, culture and practice principles of all staff across the directorate. We strive to ensure that our attitudes and behaviour reflect these core values in all our dealings with children, young people, their families, and the wider community in partnership with those who support them.
Supporting Statement
As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement
Please consider and demonstrate the following when completing your Supporting Statement:
- Ways in which you have modelled and promoted the GTCS Professional Values (social justice, trust, respect and integrity) and Professional Commitment in your current and previous roles?
(Consider the following: how you have promoted health and wellbeing for all; how you have built positive relationships build on trust and respect; how you have motivated and included all learners; how you have demonstrated your values and moral purpose?)
- Ways in which you demonstrated your professional knowledge and understanding of learning, teaching, assessment and curriculum through an enquiring stance.
(Consider the following: how have you increased your knowledge of research and used this to enhance, and apply, individually and collaboratively to inform your professional practice; how is your professional commitment evident in your engagement with professional learning that has enhanced your practice; how have you used innovation and creativity including the use of digital technologies to motivate and engage learners?)
- Ways in which you have effectively planned to meet all learners needs?
(Consider the following: how you have used assessment evidence as an integral part of the teaching process to support and enhance learning, which has led to a positive impact on outcomes for learners?)
- Ways in which you have built and sustained positive relationships that have led to positive outcomes for learners
(Consider the following: how have you have demonstrated care and commitment when actively engaging with learners about their wellbeing; how have you established positive and purposeful relationships within your school community; how have you worked collaboratively with others to improve outcomes for learners?)
Job Details
The Teacher of the Deaf will have a peripatetic caseload. Where possible the caseload covers a cluster area. In order to meet the needs of learners and schools, allocation of caseloads are subject to change and may require the Teacher of the Deaf to be allocated a caseload in other clusters or areas of Fife and may include the Resourced Bases for Deaf Pupils.
You will have responsibility for supporting schools and supporting and teaching learners on your caseload as assigned by the Manager of Educational Audiology, Supporting Learners Service.
Responsibilities
A Teacher of the Deaf will be expected to fulfil the following duties within the terms of their contract:
- Teaching through an enriched language input. This would include directly working with learners, working with small groups, supporting mainstream lessons. Supporting individual deaf learners to develop as successful learners, effective contributors, confident individuals and responsible citizens.
- Specialist assessments and interpretation of results. This would include audiological, language, and other national assessments.
- Provision of advice. This would include consulting with teaching and non-teaching staff about learner’s need in relation to deafness. This would also include strategies to support those needs and to build capacity within their school(s).
- Partnership working. Meet with learners, their parents and the staff involved, including those from other agencies, to plan, record and evaluate additional support needs arising from deafness. Contribute to continuing professional learning opportunities for teaching and non-teaching staff at school and service level.
- Working with learners and families. This would include supporting deaf learners and families, according to your caseload, from the early years to school leaving age and through periods of transition.
- Career Long Professional Learning You would keep, up to date with legislation, guidance relating to additional support for learning, technology and audiological developments. You would develop and maintain your skills and understanding of the curriculum. You would develop and maintain the specific competences for teachers of children and young persons who are hearing impaired. You would commit to the additional training required in order to achieve appropriate qualification within 5 years of taking up the post.
Qualification, Registration and Skill Requirements
You should have knowledge of sign communication and preferably some experience using British Sign Language, with a commitment to develop British Sign Language skills to an appropriate level (minimum of BSL2)
As this is a peripatetic role the ability to travel throughout Fife is essential.
For posts within Primary you are required to be fully registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) in Primary.
For posts within Secondary you are required to be fully registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) in Secondary for the specific subject.
You are required to model all behaviour expected of a teacher in Scotland in line with the relevant Professional Standards.
Full registration is required for all Permanent posts, for temporary class teacher posts, provisional GTCS registration in the relevant sector will be considered.
Candidates holding GTCS registration in Further Education must also hold Primary or Secondary registration to meet the essential criteria as determined by Fife Council
Before confirming your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.
Further Information
- Role Profile - When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile
- How We Work Matters - Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our How We Work Matters behaviour framework for more information.
- Employee Benefits - Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services
- Directorate Information - Council Department information
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For further Information please contact: Dr Brian Shannan - [email protected]
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