Specialist Support Teacher

Job Number: LCC02693

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £25,714 - £41,604 per year

Closing date: 01-02-2021

The Role

An exciting opportunity for you to join a dedicated, peripatetic team of specialist teachers supporting pupils with SEND across Liverpool’s mainstream educational settings.

SENISS (Special Educational Needs Inclusion Support Service) are looking to recruit a dynamic, committed and hardworking specialist teacher, who is passionate about supporting, ambitious and developing the inclusion of pupils with SEND, and working within a team.

Applicants will be required to have a degree, qualified teacher status and additional relevant qualifications at post graduate level (e.g. Masters, PG Cert.) in the area of SEND, for example autism. You should have significant experience and expertise in teaching pupils with SEND in a mainstream nursery, primary, secondary and/or special school setting and/or resourced provision and experience of working in an advisory capacity within school or other relevant setting.

Please note: Interviews will be Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th February via a video conferencing platform.

SENISS have an office based in the Parklands Customer Focus Centre, Speke. You will be expected to travel between schools and the office within the working day with the option of Agile Working.

The salary is Main Pay Range £25,714 to Upper Pay Range £41,604 (September 2020) in addition to the salary the SEN Max allowance of £4,479 will also be paid.

This job is on teacher's pay and conditions so there is an expectation that the candidate will work within the expectations of any teacher. Therefore, weekly working hours will vary across each week depending on demands.

Liverpool City Council is committed to having a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve. We are an Equal Opportunities Employer and believe that the decision to appoint should be based upon whether an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, and abilities make them the most suitable candidate for the role. All applications for jobs in the service of the Authority will receive equal treatment irrespective of their race, gender, marital status, age, disability, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status.

We will ensure that disabled applicants are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

How to Apply

Your application is made up of two parts, Application Form and Supporting Statement. Your supporting statement must evidence in no more than 1,500 words how you meet the essential criteria on the Person Specification, the essential criteria is marked with *, all other criteria are desirable.

Liverpool City Council uses a scoring process for all applications received. You must address all of the essential criteria to be shortlisted for the post and you must score a minimum of 65%. Each essential criteria is scored from 0 to 3; the more you evidence the essential criteria, the higher the score you will receive i.e. giving clear examples. If you should score a 0 in any of the essential criteria you will not be shortlisted for interview. Therefore, it’s important that you ensure you justify how you meet each aspect of the criteria.

We operate an anonymous recruitment process therefore when you are writing your supporting statement it is important you do not include any information that can identify your race, gender, marital status, age, disability, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, educational establishment or socioeconomic status.

If you have previously applied for a Liverpool City Council vacancy within the last twelve months and have created a CHP, you will enter your user ID and password. If you are applying online for the first time, we recommend you create and activate a homepage by entering the details as required. Alternatively, you can skip the login and go straight to the application form, there will be no option to save and return to this.

Finally, take time to check your application to ensure that all sections have been completed and there are no spelling or grammatical mistakes. A link to the job description and person specification can be found within the advert and these provide information about the job for which you are applying. Read these documents carefully and ensure that your application details the ways in which you meet the requirements of the role.

The equal opportunities form you provide will assist us in monitoring the effects of our equal opportunities policy in recruitment and selection and will help us to develop and improve.

If you require any reasonable adjustments in line with the Equality Act 2010 such as the application form in a different format or additional time to complete your application, please contact the recruitment team on 0151 233 3003 or recruitment@liverpool.gov.uk