Advisory Teacher - Language & Communication (Local Impact Teams) - 2 Posts

Advisory Teacher - Language & Communication (Local Impact Teams) - 2 posts Education Authority
• Ballymena, Antrim

The language and communication Advisory Teacher will work within the Education Authority) Local Impact Teams. The role of the language and communication Advisory Teacher is to deliver training, to offer advice and support to school staff and parents/carers, and to work directly with children and young people. This may involve working with school staff and pupils in preschool, nursery, primary post-primary settings, within mainstream, specialist settings attached to mainstream and Special Schools.

The Advisory Teacher will liaise with other EA Officers and with other professionals in other agencies.

Within the guidance of Local Impact Team manager;

Contribute as required to the development and delivery of a language and communication training programme for educational professionals to promote the capacity building of staff in educational settings.

Liaise with staff in EA services and other agencies, particularly Health Trust Speech and Language Therapists, Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, and RISE NI staff regarding delivery of training to maximise the quality and consistency of training offered to professionals supporting children with special educational needs.

Promote and develop effective partnerships with parents to support their children’s learning, achievement, and development by contributing to the development of training/ information sessions for parents as required.

Contribute to the development and delivery of the EA Local Impact Team action plan, and the wider SEND Transformation Plan.

Support Language Intervention Officers and Language Assistants in delivering their role as required.

Contribute to the development of an excellent support service within which all staff acknowledge that they are accountable for the success of the service.

Contribute to the quality monitoring and evaluation of aspects of the EA Local IMPACT team in promoting positive outcomes for service users.

Collaborate with staff in educational settings, with parents to provide assessment, intervention and progress monitoring for staff and children in educational settings. Provide and facilitate the delivery of a range of interventions that are deemed to be appropriate to meet the needs of the individual child/young person.

Maintain a key role in relation to some children who require more specific support to include the development and implementation of an individualised based support programme.

Support the transition of children with SEN, including those with language, and communication needs/Developmental Language Disorder.

Maintain reports of involvement, assessment, and progress for each child/young person on an allocated caseload and any child/young person receiving advice and support.

Liaise with parents to encourage their involvement, particularly the importance of attendance at speech and language therapy appointments in Health Trust clinics; and to offer advice and support as to how they might assist their child at home.

Facilitate parent support groups and training as required.

Encourage and demonstrate liaison between home and educational setting to maximise consistency in relation to effective strategies that are being implemented to meet the needs of an individual child.

Provide a ‘link’ role to allocated educational setting establishing a key relationship on behalf of the and facilitating an efficient and effective use of the service resource.

Signpost to Language and Communication and other relevant SEN training for educational setting professionals in developing knowledge and skills in supporting children with SEN.

Provide advice to staff in educational settings (including leaders and practitioners) regarding the educational implications of the children’s SEN including language and Communication needs/Developmental Language Disorder and the use of appropriate support strategies and…