Teacher in Charge – Primary Resourced Provision for Children with Vision Impairment

Department of Children’s Services

Education and Learning – Specialist Teaching & Support Service (STaSS)

Children’s Sensory and Physical Needs Service

Teacher in Charge – Primary Resourced Provision for Children with Vision Impairment

Salary: MPS/UPS + 2 SEN (qualified) / 1 SEN (unqualified) +TLR 2

This post will initially be based at Grove House Primary School.

“Our vision is to provide high quality support for all Bradford children and young people using a collaborative approach through transformational learning experiences so that they can flourish, make excellent holistic progress and successfully transition to responsible citizens”.

Are you an outstanding teacher with a passion and commitment to make a difference to children’s lives?

We are seeking to recruit a creative, innovative and experienced Qualified Teacher of the Vision Impaired who can lead a team of professionals who work with vision impaired pupils across the Children’s Sensory and Physical Needs Service in the Local Authority Led Resourced Provisions (LARP). 

As the Teacher in Charge, you will lead effective and efficient provision for children with vision impairment at Grove House Primary School, Local Authority Led Resourced Provision to:

• Provide strong and outstanding leadership, supervision and line management for a range of teaching and non-teaching staff and work with the service leadership team in all matters arising from policy, families, staffing, finance and administration and multi-agency working.
• Work with the school and other professionals to secure and sustain effective teaching and learning for children and young people who are vision impaired, raising awareness of the needs and rights of these children and young people.
• Ensure that a cohesive, flexible and responsive service is able to deliver efficient and effective outcomes to meet the individual needs of all pupils for whom the service has responsibility at Grove House Primary School

We would be happy to consider applications from outstanding teachers with experience of leadership, who wish to train as a Teacher of Children and Young People with Vision Impairment.

Start Date: 1st September 2023

We can offer:

• An opportunity to work within a dedicated, skilled and supportive team.
• Planned continuous professional development (CPD) relevant to your role.
• Access to wellbeing support and resources and other employee benefits.

Bradford Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

An enhanced DBS check and children’s barred list check will be undertaken for these posts and all mandatory pre employed checks will be carried out.

Responsibilities of the post include ensuring that the safety and welfare of children and young people is paramount by implementing the relevant safeguarding practice and policies and liaising with other council colleagues including the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) where appropriate. Further details can be found within the job description.

The post includes engaging in regulated activity with children and young people. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, Section 4(2) by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA 1974). It is the applicant’s duty to disclose any offences which fall outside of the protected offences list prior to any recruitment. Failure to disclose this information could lead to withdrawal of the application or dismissal.

The Code of Practice on the English language requirement for public sector workers, Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 requires that Councils ensure that all candidates applying for customer facing posts must be assessed in order to establish their fluency in English.

The criteria under special knowledge and experience on the job profile which is shown in this advert outlines what level of fluency you will be expected to demonstrate. Therefore, it is essential that you provide examples in your application.

If you would like an informal discussion about this post then please contact Karen Turner, Deaf and MSI Children Service Manager, karen.turner@bradford.gov.uk

Closing Date: 30th June 2023