Team Leader - Deaf Support Team

Team Leader - Deaf Support Team - Fixed Term until 28/02/2027
Citywide

Hours: 35 per week
Salary: £64,503

Teaching time: up to 12 hrs

Staff managed by Team Leader: up to 7 FTE teachers, up to 11 FTE support staff.

The Deaf Support Team support children and young people (0 -18 years) in the home, early years establishments, primary, secondary, and special schools.
The Team Leader will lead an experienced and growing staff team of teaching and support staff working with children and young people with additional support needs associated with deafness.
This post requires an experienced educational leader with extensive experience of successfully working within a multi-agency team and delivering improved outcomes for learners with significant levels of additional support need. An elevated level of autonomous decision-making and planning and organisational skill is required for this role. This is a peripatetic post which works citywide and post holders must be prepared to travel.

You will advise and support Service teaching and support staff to ensure that, through their own practice and/or their partnership with establishments, high quality teaching and learning is delivered with the aim of maximising attainment and achievement for all learners. You will be responsible for undertaking support and challenge roles within the Service and, as appropriate, with educational establishments and other service partners. These responsibilities may change over time to meet the developing needs of the service.
The Team Leader will be an active member of the service management team who will be responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of effective teaching and learning policies, practice, and procedures. There will be a need to remain aware of current theories and practice relating to effective teaching, developments in children's services and can ensure that appropriate implementation occurs as they focus on service, Council and National priorities.

MAJOR TASKS/JOB ACTIVITIES
* To support senior managers in the planning and strategic direction of support, accessibility, and health and wellbeing for deaf children and young people.

* To be responsible for the Deaf Support Team improvement plan and be accountable for its progress.

* To take a lead role at identified CAT/in-service sessions, staff meetings and in working groups.

* To be responsible for specialist pupil assessment relating to a deaf learners.

* To undertake a line management role for designated staff, as required.

* To be responsible for the professional review of staff, as required.

* To participate in the recruitment of staff, as required.

* To manage off site units, groups, and classes as appropriate.

* To take responsibility for health and safety in relation to groups and classes as appropriate.

* To allocate caseloads/ support and manage the associated systems and recording.

* To be responsible for the managing the provision of assistive listening equipment and advising on reasonable adjustments.

* To ensure that children and young people supported by the team experience effective transitions at all stages and achieve and sustain appropriate and positive post-school destinations.

* To lead and support the team to engage with and strengthen the capacity and confidence of families in supporting deaf children and young people.

* To contribute to the service's Quality Assurance processes.

* To promote and implement effective links with schools and third sector organisations to ensure effective support for children and young people with additional support for learning needs.

* To meet parents, partners, and specialist agencies, as necessary. To work collaboratively within and across service areas/teams.

Applicants wishing to apply for this role on a secondment basis should seek the approval of their line manager in the first instance.

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. 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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As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

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