Vision Support Teacher Parks House

What you’ll be doing

As a confident Teacher, you’ll support children and young people with a vision impairment, including those with EHC plans, both in the home and in a range of mainstream/specialist settings. Using appropriate strategies and interventions, you’ll help develop the visual and communication skills of children and young people including providing direct support to babies with vision or multi-sensory needs. You’ll work closely with other professionals such as SENCOs, Teachers, Teaching Assistants and Health professionals, to provide advice and teach specialist skills, for example Braille, the use of specialist equipment and ICT.

As an enthusiastic and innovative teacher, you’ll have a proven record of good or outstanding teaching to children with SEND. Ideally, you’ll have the additional specialist qualification, or you’ll be willing and able to obtain the qualification within a three-year period. Applications are particularly welcome from teachers with the ability to work across phases and with special school/secondary experience. As a creative thinker, you’ll be able to provide high quality and engaging learning experiences for children and young people with a visual impairment.

With the ability to work both as part of team and independently, you’ll be able to manage your own workload, work under pressure and respond positively to potentially stressful situations.

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities.

In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly‑talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible.

To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.

If you’d like to have a chat before applying, feel free to contact Julie Speirs at j

Interviews will take place on Thursday 15th January 2026.