Autism Outreach Specialist Teacher
| Posting date: | 07 March 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 April 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RF |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4827 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8RF
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: Main Pay Scale 5 - UPS3 £40,084- £49,084 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) Plus SEN Allowance £2,679-£5,285
Working Hours: 32.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 24th March 2025
Interview Date(s): Tuesday 3rd April 2025
About the Role
Due to an increase in team capacity, an exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and committed specialist teachers to join the Autism Outreach Team. The advert is for 2 full time teachers and one 0.8 FTE.
The Autism Outreach Team is a well-regarded and welcoming team, consisting of specialist teachers and practitioners with a wealth of knowledge and experience and a passion for Inclusion. We work with mainstream education settings across Leicestershire to support positive outcomes for autistic pupils in EYFS, and Key Stages 1-5.
We are committed to understanding autism as difference rather than deficit and as part of Specialist Teaching Service, we aim to improve opportunities, outcomes and experiences for children and young people with SEND in partnership with families, educational settings and organisations.
The successful applicant will have a caseload responsibility, which will focus on enabling schools to implement a range of teaching and learning strategies to support the progress and inclusion of pupils with a diagnosis of autism or communication and interaction needs. You will be confident in providing support and advice for children and young people with a diagnosis of autism or communication and interaction needs, their families/carers and educational settings within a multi-agency context.
The role involves maintaining thorough records of work undertaken and contributing to Education, Health and Care Plan assessments and annual reviews. In addition, you will engage with ongoing professional development to identify, develop and deliver resources that promote curriculum access for autistic learners.
You will work with children and young people, their parents / carers and school staff to identify both the strengths and challenges the child or young person is experiencing. Using this knowledge, you will then provide advice and information to identify provision which builds on their strengths and meets their identified needs. This will involve working collaboratively with Specialist Teachers, Educational Psychologists and other agencies where appropriate. Therefore, we welcome applications from highly motivated, creative practitioners, who enjoy working in a collaborative, solution-focussed way.
LCC’s Autism Outreach Team is the East Midlands’ Autism Education Trust’s regional partner and, as such, developing and delivering training to a range of audiences is a key part of the role.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Degree level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status, with evidence of further training and development in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
- Substantial experience of working directly with pupils with a diagnosis of Autism or communication and interaction needs, including knowledge of effective teaching and learning approaches and resources to support the attainment and inclusion of autistic pupils
- Experience of delivering of training, including in-service training to teachers
- Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to relate positively to children, young people, parents and other professionals and establish effective working relationships with colleagues, educational settings and partner agencies
- Significant experience of working appropriately in accordance with relevant statutory and local policies and procedures for SEND and the ability carry out all duties in line with LCC Safeguarding policies and procedures and fulfil relevant safeguarding competencies
- Ability to actively demonstrate the values of the authority: Positivity; Trust and respect; Flexibility; Openness and Transparency
- Must be able to perform all duties and tasks with reasonable adjustment, where appropriate, in accordance with the provisions of the Equality Act 2010. This will include requirements to work flexibly around holiday periods in line with the service requirements and access to a vehicle with the ability to travel to temporary bases such as schools, touch-down bases etc
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Angela Shipley - Autism Outreach Team Manager Or Vanessa Foulds, Specialist Teaching Service Manager
Email: angela.shipley@leics.gov.uk Or vanessa.foulds@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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