BSL Tutor and Practitioner - Hearing Support Team
BSL Tutor and Practitioner - Hearing Support Team
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Job Description
Children and Families Department
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Field based worker
Salary: Unqualified Teacher Scale(pro rata for part time)
Working Hours:0.53 FTE (3 days a week term time only)
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 15th June 2025
Interview Date(s): 26th June 2025
About the Role
The Hearing Support Team are seeking to recruit a dedicated professional to our BSL Tutor and Practitioner post to support the development of BSL (British Sign Language) and Deaf Awareness with Deaf children their families schools and settings. The post holder will work alongside our team ofQualified Teachers of the Deaf Educational Audiologist Hearing Support practitioners and Audiological Technician.
The successful applicant will work with children and young people across a wide age range from preschool in family homes and preschool settings up to and including school and Post-16 settings where relevant promoting their communication development. The role involves providing family sign language training for families alongside play activities to develop communication with the preschool child. The role involves planning and delivering BSL teaching to identified staff within schools and settings as well as developing BSL skills within the Team. The post holder may be working alongside support workers of Deaf children to model and promote the use of BSL where appropriate within the school. Part of the role will be to assess childrens use of BSL and advising on next steps.
We are looking for an enthusiastic competent signer and communicator with experience of working with Deaf children and young people. We are looking for someone who holds or is willing to work towards BSL Level 6. The successful applicant will need to be able to plan and prioritise their work work independently and be flexible in their working pattern to suit the needs of the post.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
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About You
To apply for this post you must:
- BSL Level 4 (NVQ L4) (BSL Level 6 desirable) with a willingness to complete Level 6 and / or undertake further qualifications and training as necessary
- Significant experience and understanding of meeting the needs of children and young people who are deaf and their families
- Ability to Teach BSL and assist with teaching deaf awareness to a range of people including deaf and hearing children families and professionals
- 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
- 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 within service requirements and access to a vehicle with the ability to travel to temporary bases such as schools touch-down bases etc
- A clear understanding of and commitment to Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding Children and the ability to apply this to strategic work and day-to-day situations
We are looking for an individual who celebrates equality diversity and inclusion challenging discrimination at every level together as a service and a Council. We warmly welcome those from all cultures ethnicities and beliefs including those whose own experience of disability can serve as an inspiration - this diversity is vital to our journey and is fundamental to our values and enriches the service we offer our Children and Families.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand 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 individuals 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 Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Pauline Wells Team Manager Hearing Support Team
Telephone:
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 Applysection 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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Employment Type
Full Time
