Team Leader (Vision Impairment)

Team Leader (Vision Impairment)
Hearing & Vision Specialist Service
Teachers Leadership point 6 10 (£58,569 - £64,691)
32.5 Hours, Full Time
Permanent, Term Time Only
Office base: Hearing and Vision Specialist Service, Hardman Centre Stockport SK3 0BJ

Application Deadline: 29th May 2026 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 2nd June 2026
Interview Date: 5th June 2026
Interview Type: Face to Face

Join us at Stockport Council MJ Local Authority of the Year 2025

Your Role

For a September 2026 start, we are seeking a motivated, inclusive, and committed Team Leader (VI-vision impairment) to join our stable and well-respected specialist service for children and young people (C&YP) aged 0-25 years.

This is a key operational leadership role, providing day-to-day oversight of the vision impairment specialist team and the Qualified Teacher of Multi-Sensory Impairment (QTMSI). The role contributes to the delivery of high-quality statutory provision for C&YP who have vision impairment, and their families.

Working closely with the Head of Service, the Team Leader for the deaf C&YP team and the QTMSI, you will support your team, families, and partners to achieve positive outcomes for C&YP across a wide range of settings and through strong multi-agency collaboration and working.

You will combine leadership responsibilities with a VI specialist teaching and advisory caseload, providing expert assessment, intervention, training, and guidance across a range of settings and contribute to service development.

You will also deputise for the Head of Service when required.

The role is well suited to VI-qualified and experienced candidates who are passionate about inclusive practice, development, and leadership.

About You

An essential requirement is that you must be a mandatory Qualified Teacher of Vision Impairment (QTVI) with substantial experience.

You will be a confident and organised professional with experience of working in SEND, education, or specialist support services.

Additionally, you should have:

• Experience of supporting statutory SEND processes, including EHCP related work
• An understanding of safeguarding responsibilities within education / children’s services
• Ability to support and guide teaching and non-teaching colleagues, ideally across multiple settings and key stages.
• Effective communication and relationship building skills, solution focused, with the ability to lead, support and inspire others
• A commitment to inclusive, collaborative, and restorative ways of working

You will share Stockport Council’s values and place children, young people, and families at the heart of your practice.

About Us

The post is based at the service office, located in central Stockport. Our team and you will work peripatetically across the borough, in homes and educational settings. You would be supported in your role within a dynamic and friendly team.

More information about the service can be found here: Hearing and Vision Specialist Service - Stockport Council.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Sam Taylor on sam.taylor@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.

Hearing and Vision Specialist Service is committed to safeguarding children and young people. The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.

Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application. Please also email recruitment@stockport.gov.uk.

Privacy Notice

Eligible at-risk employees are entitled to have their applications considered ahead of internal employees in line with the Council’s Recruitment and Selection Policy. At risk employees are either employees in the last three months of their fixed term contract, or those who have been notified in writing that they are at risk by Human Resources following an employee consultation meeting. Employees wishing to be considered as an at-risk applicant are requested to email recruitment@stockport.gov.uk to inform Human Resources. At risk applications are only permitted for opportunities at the employees’ current grade or grades below.