About this role
The City of Edinburgh Council
About Us
Are you keen to shape the future of Scotland’s capital city? The City of Edinburgh Council is looking for dedicated and enthusiastic individuals to work with us and deliver key services across our capital city. We’re the second largest local authority in Scotland with a workforce of over 19,000 who all play a crucial role in maintaining and supporting vital services to over 500,000 residents. We offer an incredible variety of career opportunities across a broad range of sectors. Join us and you’ll find a role where you can make a difference and grow your career.
Our Culture
Our Behaviours, respect, integrity, and flexibility guide everything that we do, and we strive to make sure all colleagues feel valued and have a sense of belonging in the workplace. We want to make sure that we bring people into our roles who demonstrate Our Behaviours and are dedicated and committed to our purpose of serving our community. We are focused on delivering excellent customer service to meet citizens needs and make the city a better place.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We recognise the benefits that diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds bring to our organisation, and we’re committed to employing a workforce that represents the population of the city we serve. We particularly encourage applicants from under-represented groups including women, LGBT+ people, racially minoritised groups, people with disabilities and people who are neurodivergent.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we're delighted to announce that we have extended our guaranteed interview scheme to include all applicants who are or have been care experienced, and who meet the essential criteria for the post. This extends our current arrangements of being a Disability Confident Employer, that guarantee an interview to applicants who meet the criteria for the post and who declare a disability.
Happy to talk flexible working.
Colleague Support and Wellbeing
As outlined in our People Strategy 2024-27, we aim to nurture a healthy workforce where we can all thrive. We offer regular events, initiatives and learning opportunities covering a range of different health and wellbeing topics.
We’re committed to supporting employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. There are several policies in place to support this ranging from flexible work options to career breaks. Our full suite of employment policies can be found here.
We have a range of support options available including access to counselling, a mental health support service, an occupational health service, speak up supporters and a colleague listening service.
Reasonable Adjustments
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible experience at work for all our colleagues and we’ll work hard to ensure that we meet the changing needs of colleagues throughout their time with us. We’re also geared up to support all candidates who may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Candidates invited for interview, should let the hiring manager know what they need, and they will do everything they can to accommodate your request.
Team Leader - Deaf Support Team
Citywide
Salary: £66,759
Hours: 35 hours per week
The City of Edinburgh Council’s Sensory and Complex Needs Service is committed to providing high-quality inclusive educational experiences and improved outcomes for children and young people who are deaf, partially sighted/blind or are unable/require additional support to attend school due to ill health.
A unique opportunity has arisen for an experienced teacher to undertake an exciting and varied promoted role. This additional full-time Team Leader will job share the Deaf Support Team Leader role, undertaking a line management role for designated staff within the growing team of teachers and support staff.
The Deaf Support Team is a citywide peripatetic team working with families at home, with staff and deaf children in early years establishments, mainstream and special schools. They provide knowledge and expertise with regards to the impact of deafness on development and access to learning. They assess, plan and implement supports at universal, targeted and intensive levels in collaboration with the team around the child. This includes providing Deaf Awareness training and signposting appropriate resources, contributing to individual education planning as well as direct teaching/support to develop the skills and confidence to overcome barriers to learning. They work collaboratively with NHS and third sector partners.
In addition to the shared tasks pertaining to the Deaf Support Team, the post holder will support the service manager with wider accessibility, health, and wellbeing priorities. This will include contributing to the development and implementation of procedures with regards to healthcare planning and adaptations and assisting in the development and coordination of the professional learning offer the service provides to education staff.
While the special requirements of this post stated in the job profile indicate experience and additional qualifications are required for the Deaf Support Team Leader role, we would also welcome applications from experienced teachers with evidence of a commitment to inclusive practice and supporting additional support needs who meet the essential criteria in the employee specification. Opportunities for professional development in the specialist area of deaf education will be provided.
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.
We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
Find out more about our commitment to equalities https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/inclusive-edinburgh/4
As part of our goal to improve organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure we're recruiting the best people. We’re interested not only in your skills and experience but also in your approach to work. Therefore, part of our interview process will be an assessment of how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council
Happy to talk flexible working.
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