Teacher of the Deaf
Roding Primary School, Woodford Green, Essex, IG8 8NPThis job expired on 20 September 2019 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 January 2020
Closing date
20 September 2019 at 1am
Date listed
7 August 2019
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £27,597 to £43,347
Additional allowances
Salary: MPS/UPS + 1 or 2 SEN points depending on experience and qualifications
We can offer you:
• A very friendly and supportive staff and children who love to learn
• A well-resourced working environmentSigning skills or a willingness to train, would be a requirement.
Teacher of the Deaf job summary
Purpose of job:
To be responsible for the educational care and development of groups of deaf children, working either within Roding Primary School or supporting children with hearing needs within their local mainstream primary school, with an emphasis on Teaching, assessing and monitoring to ensure their full academic and social inclusion within their class/school group.
To promote a deaf-friendly environment and culture of equality of opportunity with peers across the school and LEA.
Responsible to: Headteacher
Line managed by: Inclusion Manager
KEY TASKS TO BE UNDERTAKEN
Promoting inclusion and well-being
• Ensuring that the pupils are given the same learning/social opportunities and experiences as their hearing peers in all aspects of the school day, whilst ensuring their individual hearing needs are fully catered for.
• Creating opportunities with the class teacher for deaf pupils to play a full role in the wider social context of mixed groups, the class and school.
• Teaching, assessment and/or monitoring, support and advice to schools with regard to the needs of children with hearing needs.
• To prepare and deliver training to schools and other settings to promote inclusive practices and to aid the effective teaching of pupils with hearing needs.
• To provide high quality advice and support to parents, including those who may be vulnerable following the diagnosis of their child’s hearing loss.
Achievement and Standards
• To ensure the individual needs of identified children are met within an inclusive environment ensuring full access to the national curriculum which should be delivered in the way most appropriate to the child’s learning style and communication needs.
• Ensuring high standards are set and maintained for all aspects of teaching and learning.
• Ensuring that each deaf pupil’s individual needs are known and understood by all relevant staff
• Ensuring that appropriate support staff are deployed most effectively to meet the individual needs of the deaf pupils throughout the school day.
• Consulting with the pupil, parents, class teacher and TA, to set intervention profiles which accurately reflect the current individual needs of each child.
• Ensuring appropriately differentiated work is delivered to deaf pupils taking into account their individual needs; the terms of their Statement and intervention profiles; the requirements of the National Curriculum, and in consultation with the class teacher.
• Ensuring that appropriate specialist individual assessment processes for targeted areas are established and implemented regularly by all staff working with each child.
• To monitor the identification of appropriate attainment and/or achievement targets to promote progress and next step learning
• To monitor the effectiveness of assessment and teaching through observation, record keeping, reports, regular team meetings and provision management systems.
• Ensuring that individual targets are reviewed termly.
• Taking the lead in the Statutory Annual Review process for designated pupils, ensuring that school procedures are followed.
• Ensuring that assessment files which highlight progress of individual targets are maintained by the appropriate person.
• Monitoring the records of work which highlight progress of individual targets.
• Writing or contributing to the end of year school reports in consultation with the class teacher.
• Ensuring you have a detailed knowledge of progress and attainment of all supported children within your caseload.
• To play a full part in the family group sessions at Roding.
• To play a full and active part in Deaf Awareness week at Roding, encouraging families to participate and providing support when necessary.
Whole school
• Playing a full part in the life of the school, including attendance at staff meetings as required, briefings, INSET, assemblies, liaising with key stakeholders and contributing to policymaking.
• Participating fully in the school self-evaluation process including lesson observations, and other appropriate evaluative activities (such as work and planning samples, moderation etc).
• Being available from 8.30 am each morning for supervising the arrival and collection of pupils from the buses.
• Ensuring that at the end of each day pupils are prepared to leave, and supervising them onto the buses.
• Ensuring high standards of behaviour of the pupils in school, and promoting a calm and positive ethos.
Professional relationships and Continuing Professional Development
• Adopting a co-operative and constructive team approach to working.
• Directing and co-ordinating support timetables and the work of the Teaching Assistants, in consultation with the class teacher.
• Liaising effectively with all appropriate staff.
• Taking responsibility for own professional growth and development through participation in the school’s CPD programme and in line with the school’s policy on Threshold Standards.
• Liaising with outside agencies in support of pupil needs e.g. Outreach, SALT, LA audiological services and external audiological providers where necessary.
Resources
• Using ICT to support the raising of standards whenever possible.
• Ensuring that all audiological equipment is working effectively and encouraging pupils to be independent with their equipment.
• Ensuring that the deaf pupils have access to an appropriate range of visual aids to support their learning.
• Maintaining a well-organised, tidy and stimulating teaching base.
Parent and governor partnership
• Promoting a positive partnership with colleagues, parents and the wider community.
• Making home visits as necessary.
• Meeting and informing parents of their children’s progress, attitudes, attainment and targets through termly meetings.
• Supporting the work of the governors through formal monitoring arrangements and informal meetings.
Other
• To undertake any other particular duty reasonably assigned by the head teacher from time to time.
Commitment to safeguarding
We believe that every member of the Roding community has responsibility for ensuring the safety and well being of every child at all times. The school follows the London Borough of Redbridge guidelines & has its own policy. Staff receive safeguarding training on a regular basis through annual level 1 training sessions and regular updates throughout the year. Members of staff, who include the Head Teacher will receive regular Level 2 training. Regular volunteers and visitors will also recieve safeguarding training. All staff have a duty of care and are expected to be proactive with reporting matters.
About Roding Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 432 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Roding Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- nilesh.pandya@rodingprimary.co.uk
Roding Primary School is a non-denominational, co-educational primary school in Woodford Green, North East of London. The school also has a Nursery unit, and a special provision for children affected by deafness.
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