Qualified Teacher of the Visually Impaired (QTVI)

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: Qualified Teacher (Upper Pay Scale)
Salary: £55,415 – £60,092 + 2SEN Allowance (£5,285)
Salary is Pro rata due to Part Time Hours
Contract Type: Part Time (0.6 FTE, 3 Days per week, 19.5 hours per week)
12 Month Fixed-Term Contract
Closing Date: Sunday 18th May 2025
Interview Date: Friday 23rd May 2025
Start Date: Monday 1st September 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture. Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established, successful, and supportive team – Haringey Sensory Support Team. The peripatetic role provides advice, information & support for children, young people, families, and professionals in a range of settings to ensure that all children and young people with a vision impairment (VI) are sensitively supported to reach their full potential. This is a peripatetic role.

About the Team

We are a small team of QTVIs and a Habilitation Specialist. We support children with a diagnosed vision impairment, both in the home and a variety of educational settings. We become involved with families and children from their diagnosis. Our work includes supporting and advising families/carers and professionals throughout the child’s developmental and educational journey into adulthood.

About You

We are looking for a qualified teacher of the visually impaired. You must be an enthusiastic, motivated, and passionate professional who is interested in developing their skills further. You will need to demonstrate considerable knowledge and successful experience of working with VI children and young people. This job will require you to work across the age range 0 – 25years. The role as a QTVI requires excellent interpersonal skills, flexibility, and the ability to work independently as well as contributing to the wider Education Inclusion Team. The ability to be well organised and to meet deadlines is essential.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are 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 of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.