Principal Teacher – Hearing Impaired

Job title:

Principal Teacher – Hearing Impaired

Company:

Fife Council

Job description

Job Description:Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 19 August 2024Closing Date: Sunday 4 August 2024Contract Type: PermanentSalary: PT1 £52,896.00 (Subject to Job Sizing)Working Pattern: 35 hours per weekLocation: Auchmuty High School, GlenrothesPurpose and Values of Education & Children’s Services DirectorateThe Education & Children’s Services Directorate is committed to Improving Life Chances for All through a wide range of direct services which support our children, young people, families and the wider Fife community. Our approach to improvement is rooted in our core values: Compassion, Ambition, Respect and Equity which reflect the ethos, culture and practice principles of all staff across the directorate. We strive to ensure that our attitudes and behaviour reflect these core values in all our dealings with children, young people, their families, and the wider community in partnership with those who support them.Supporting StatementAs part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at .Please consider and demonstrate the following when completing your Supporting Statement:

• Ways you have modelled and promoted the GTCS Professional Values (social justice, trust, respect and integrity) and Professional Commitment in your current and previous roles.

(Consider the following: how you have ensured equity of opportunity for all; how you have developed relationships built on trust and respect that enable others to take responsibility; how your moral and ethical principles inform your practice and how your own professional learning underpins your development as a leader and the development of others.)

• How have you demonstrated your knowledge, skills and understanding when contributing to the leadership of change?

(Consider the following: how have you developed and promoted an informed and critical stance which focusses on improvements in curriculum and pedagogy; how have you promoted and enhanced collaboration and leadership at all levels; how have you promoted and modelled the school’s vision, values and aims.)

• How you have supported and sustained colleagues in creating a positive environment for all learners?

(Consider the following: how have you inspired and motivated others to have high expectations within a safe, caring and purposeful learning environment which is welcoming and inclusive, well managed and well organised; how have you encouraged and facilitated learner participation in planning and deciding about their own learning and the wider decision making within the learning community.)

• Ways in which you have you built and developed approaches to increase and promote positive partnerships.

(Consider the following: how you have contributed to change at classroom, department and school level.)

• Ways in which you have used self-evaluation to make changes at classrooms, department or school level.

(Consider the following: how have you used self-evaluation to improve approaches to learning, teaching and assessment; how have you supported the professional learning of others, how have you ensured a wide variety of stakeholders are involved in decision-making processes and how have you made best use of resources to support the development of the curriculum, pedagogy, people and teams.)Job DetailsWe are looking for a highly-skilled Principal Teacher who is passionate about improving life chances for deaf learners through a professional commitment to leading change and improvement that ensures positives outcomes for our deaf children and young people.The role of the Principal Teacher is to develop, improve and manage and support the Resourced Base provision/wider Deaf Support Service to the benefit of the pupils, their parents, and the community we serve, through pursuing the objectives and implementing policies set by the Educational Audiologist Manager and Fife Council Education Children’s’ service, under the overall direction of the Executive Director of Education and Children’s service.Qualification, Registration and Skill RequirementsYou are required to have a postgraduate qualification in deaf education (Teacher of the Deaf qualification) as well as BSL Level 2.You are required to demonstrate a commitment to your own professional learning as a practitioner through career-long professional learning activity and to be able to show how this has impacted on your practice.You are required to be fully registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) and to model all behaviour expected of a Teacher in Scotland in line with the relevant Professional Standards.Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.Further Information

• Role Profile – When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria
• How We Work Matters – Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our

behaviour framework for more information. * Employee Benefits – Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services.

• Directorate Information –
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For further information please contact: Dr Brian Shannan –

Expected salary

£52896 per year

Location

Glenrothes, Fife

Job date

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:11:26 GMT

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