Teacher - Language and Communication Outreach - EAD

Job Requirement

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the specialist education provision available for children in East Dunbartonshire Council.

Based within the ASN Children’s Service in Kirkintilloch, your role will be to support children and young people across Early Years, Primary and Secondary within the estate, working in a peripatetic manner.

We are looking for someone who will help to support schools to provide educational opportunities and improve outcomes for our children. This will include both outreach work and working closely with mainstream schools and establishments to help ensure children with neuro‑diverse profiles and/or language and communication needs, are supported to remain in mainstream settings where possible.

We are looking for someone who will preferably have additional qualifications in additional support needs and has knowledge of approaches of supporting pupils with language and communication needs.

Please submit your application no later than 21:00 hours on the closing date. You will be asked to provide the names of two referees; these are not required. Print off the role profile and Head Teacher report and give them to your Head Teacher for completion. The Head Teacher report must be signed and emailed from the Head Teacher who has completed the report to martyn.cosh@.

The report should be in PDF format and include the (EAD) reference number of the post.

Individuals will be treated in a polite, friendly and welcoming manner.

Equalities monitoring will be conducted to ensure a fair and equitable process with screening being carried out to anonymise sensitive information such as age, gender and disability.

The information that we receive will be treated in confidence and with discretion. Only the relevant HR representative/team and the relevant service will see the application form.

We will encourage and welcome applications from applicants under the disability symbol. Where the essential criteria are met an interview will be offered to those applying under the disability symbol.

We will be pleased to make any reasonable adjustments to ensure accessibility at the interview.

We will advise you within reasonable time after the closing date if you have not met the interview criteria (normally within 4 weeks). We will advise you of meeting the criteria for interview normally within 3 weeks. We will advise you if you have been successful or unsuccessful at the interview stage as soon as practically possible.

The following criteria applies to all roles within East Dunbartonshire Council where PVG/Disclosure checks are essential criteria.

Where the post you are applying for is considered a Regulated Role under the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020, successful candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check, prior to confirmation of employment being made by East Dunbartonshire Council.

Please note, successful candidates will be expected to meet the cost of the relevant check which will be deducted from the successful candidate's first salary payment. Successful candidates who withdraw their application after the check process has started will be invoiced for the cost of the check.

In specific circumstances the payment could be deducted in instalments from an employee's wages following commencement of employment. Approval in such circumstances will be made by the HR &OD Manager.

Should an employee leave in advance of the payment being deducted, the full amount will be deducted from the employee's final salary.

The criteria outlined above will apply to existing employees of East Dunbartonshire Council who apply for roles for which a PVG/Disclosure check is required.

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