Principal Teacher

1 month ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom City of Edinburgh Council Full time
Job Description

Children, Education & Justice Services

Principal Teacher - Deaf Support Team - Fixed term until 30/6/2025
East Neighbourhood Centre

Salary: £61,686 per year
Hours: 35 per week

The Additional Support for Learning Service provides targeted interventions to support children and young people (0 -18 years), in the home, early years establishments, primary, secondary, and special schools.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Qualified Teacher of Deaf Children and Young People to lead a growing staff team of teaching and support staff.

This is a full-time post which requires an experienced educational leader with extensive experience of successfully working within a multi-agency team and delivering improved outcomes for learners with significant levels of additional support need. A high level of autonomous decision-making and planning and organisational skill is required for this role.

This is a peripatetic post and post holders must be prepared to travel.

Please read the additional information provided regarding the remit of this role.

Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions of Service for Teaching Staff in School Education.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

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