Application Deadline: 16th May 2024

Shortlisting Date: 17th May 2024

Interview Date: 21st May 2024

Interview Type: Face to face

 

 

Required for September 2024, an enthusiastic and committed person to become part of the Sensory Support Service. We require a Specialist Teaching Assistant to support the development, learning, educational progress, independence and inclusion of children and young people who have vision impairment. 

 

 

The person appointed will work as part of a team within a peripatetic service providing support for children and young people aged 0-25 years. The person appointed will work as part of a supportive and friendly team under the guidance of the Head of Service/ Team leader and Qualified Specialist Teachers of Vision Impairment. The role is providing specialist support to children and young people with vision impairment in a range of educational settings across Stockport. The successful candidate will have effective skills, and ideally experience, in being able to support and working with children and young people with vision impairment both in and/or out of education. Excellent communication skills are essential, knowledge of Braille is desirable but not essential. Further professional development opportunities will be provided. 

 

 

Stockport Sensory Support Service are fully committed to the safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. 

 

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do. 

 

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

 

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