Visual Impairment Teaching Assistant
| Posting date: | 19 September 2025 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 October 2025 |
| Location: | Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 6PZ |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 19f60b6f-aee9-48cb-99b8-80785ac84420 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
The main purpose of the job is to work, under the instruction of senior staff, to undertake support programmes which enable access to learning for students and to assist the teacher in the management of students and the classroom. Work may be carried out in the classroom or outside the main teaching area. An excellent opportunity for someone with an aspiration to teach.
Applications welcomed from both applicants with a grade 2 braille qualification or those applicants willing and with a capacity to learn Brailling to a Grade 2 standard.
What the school offers its staff
Our school is ‘Good’ (Ofsted 2023), being one of the most popular and successful 11-16 mixed comprehensive schools in the Preston Park area of Brighton, consistently over-subscribed.
Our curriculum is broad and balanced and offers many exciting opportunities for all students, both in school and out. There are tremendous extra-curricular opportunities at Dorothy Stringer through sport, performing arts, the Junior Leadership Team, the Duke of Edinburgh award, as well as a number of other trips. In short, we believe there is something for everyone at the school.
Commitment to safeguarding
Dorothy Stringer is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and comply with the Department of Education Statutory Guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’.
The main purpose of the job is to work, under the instruction of senior staff, to undertake support programmes which enable access to learning for students and to assist the teacher in the management of students and the classroom. Work may be carried out in the classroom or outside the main teaching area. An excellent opportunity for someone with an aspiration to teach.
Applications welcomed from both applicants with a grade 2 braille qualification or those applicants willing and with a capacity to learn Brailling to a Grade 2 standard.
What the school offers its staff
Our school is ‘Good’ (Ofsted 2023), being one of the most popular and successful 11-16 mixed comprehensive schools in the Preston Park area of Brighton, consistently over-subscribed.
Our curriculum is broad and balanced and offers many exciting opportunities for all students, both in school and out. There are tremendous extra-curricular opportunities at Dorothy Stringer through sport, performing arts, the Junior Leadership Team, the Duke of Edinburgh award, as well as a number of other trips. In short, we believe there is something for everyone at the school.
Commitment to safeguarding
Dorothy Stringer is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and comply with the Department of Education Statutory Guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’.