Qualified Teacher of Children and Young People with Vision Impairment

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF SHOFA’S MARKET

Children’s Services in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where courageous and inspiring professionals bring everything to their work.

Sometimes this even includes heartbreak. Shofa is a shining example. Shofa’s brother suffered with his mental health and died tragically young. She uses his memory as motivation to give Westminster Youth Council members the opportunity to have a voice and get involved in decision making. This passion resulted in in her innovation: The Westminster Youth Market. Here local teenagers learn about entrepreneurship and develop their personal skills. This is an inclusive platform where everyone’s contribution and abilities are celebrated. Inspired by a promising life cut short, Shofa believes without vision there is no direction and every young person should be supported to realise their dreams.

Please view the extraordinary story of Shofa’s Market here.

As a Qualified Teacher of Children and Young People with Vision Impairment, you’ll make your own powerful contribution. Focusing on supporting the learning and emotional wellbeing of pupils with vision impairment, you’ll provide training and advice to schools and early years settings across Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster on the inclusion and education of pupils with vision impairment.

You’ll deliver specialised teacher support to pupils with vision impairment, advising the Local Authority on how to best support pupils, and collecting and analysing data to demonstrate the effectiveness of interventions and service delivery. Overall, you’ll work towards developing and embedding practice that is inclusive of children with vision impairment in educational settings.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

An established professional with a Mandatory Qualification for Teachers of Children and Young People with Vision Impairments, you’ll have an outstanding record as a classroom practitioner, and experience of assessing children with special educational needs. With the proven ability to evaluate programmes of support, and to maintain effective monitoring and reporting procedures, you’ll be comfortable working in a peripatetic manner.

On a personal level, you’ll be a natural communicator with excellent inter-personal skills and the ability to work flexibly. You’ll be organised and efficient, with a wide-ranging knowledge of teaching strategies for children with SEND. Most importantly, you’ll be a person passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people with vision impairments. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a vibrant and dynamic team putting pupils across Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster first, and to supercharge your career in the process.

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to over 250,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

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