Qualified Teacher of Children and Young People with Vision Impairment

Priority Candidates will be considered in the first instance

Wigan Life Centre South

Salary: Teachers mainscale to UPS3 + 2SEN dependent on qualifications and experience.

Full Time Teacher

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Your role:

To provide specialist teaching support to children and young people, their families, schools, early years settings and in the home.

To contribute to the monitoring of appropriate and effective use of resources allocated to children with a Vision loss.

To work within the Specialist Sensory Education Team (SSET) to develop the council’s response to the inclusion of children and young people with vision loss within mainstream schools, early years and specialist settings and the home to promote equality of opportunity and experience for these children and young people.

To improve the educational outcomes for students with vision loss.

To provide advisory, training and teaching support to enable schools and early years settings to meet the needs of children and young people with vision loss.

To work as part of an identified team whilst sharing expertise and working jointly with colleagues to promote better working practices.

To advise and support parents to meet the needs of a child with a vision loss.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

About you:

• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• Mandatory Qualification of Children and Young People with Vision Impairment (QTVI) or willing to undertake the mandatory qualification within 2/3 years
• Experience of teaching children and young people with a Visual Impairment
• Competence in the use of ICT in the education of children and young people with VI.
• Experience of supporting a range of visually impaired pupils, both with VI as the primary need and those with complex additional needs.
• Experience of monitoring and evaluating outcomes for children and young people with VI and using these to inform practice.
• Commitment to continuous professional development, service improvement and improving pupil outcomes.
• Excellent knowledge of Safeguarding children.

About us:

Wigan Council has been voted ‘Overall Council of the Year’ at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.

The Progress with Unity plan is a place movement for change for the next decade, bringing a new era for Wigan Borough. It draws on the strengths of our individual organisations, recognising that together we can achieve much more for our communities by delivering on our 2 place missions; create fair opportunities for all children, families, residents and businesses and make our towns and neighbourhoods flourish for those who live and work in them.

Teachers of Vision, Hearing and Multi-Sensory Impairment working across the Wigan Borough in a peripatetic way. We are highly regarded by both families and other professionals.

Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home, the office, or the community. We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for #TeamWigan.

To be appointed to this role you must be able to prove your right to work in the UK, and you must maintain a valid (active) right to work. Please note, at present we are not a licenced sponsor. Please visit the link below to check you qualify to apply. Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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Please contact Liz Cumbo e.cumbo@wigan.gov.uk SSET team manager for any further information

Interview dates: 14.07.26

This position is subject to Enhanced Disclosure Procedures plus child barred list check

The employer is committed to safeguarding

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