Fife Council
Access Officer
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Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 17 August 2026
Closing Date: Sunday 9 August 2026
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: FC9 £47,604.34 to £57,196.54
Working Pattern: 36 hours per week
Location: Will be required to work across Fife, based in Glenrothes
Purpose and Values of Education Directorate
The Education Directorate is committed to Improving Life Chances for All through a wide range of direct services which support our children, young people, families and the wider Fife community. Our approach to improvement is rooted in our core values: Compassion, Ambition, Respect and Equity which reflect the ethos, culture and practice principles of all staff across the directorate. We strive to ensure that our attitudes and behaviour reflect these core values in all our dealings with children, young people, their families, and the wider community in partnership with those who support them.
Supporting Statement
As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply [https://www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/how-to-apply] section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement [http://www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement].
Please consider and demonstrate the following when completing your Supporting Statement:
- Ways in which you believe you have modelled Fife Council’s How We Work Matters framework, focusing on how you have taken ownership in a managerial role and delivered results.
- How you have used your financial acumen, skills, and experience to manage budgets with limited financial resources.
- Describe your ability to build strong working relationships and build capacity through inspiring and motivating others.
- Ways in which you have demonstrated your ability to embrace technology and information to influence and make improvements.
- Demonstrate how you have led strategic change to bring about an improvement which has benefited the organisation.
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Job Details
The Education Service is required to ensure that children with significant additional support needs can access mainstream educational opportunities. The postholder will assist with this remit by recommending appropriate provision to ensure that children with disabilities are included in all aspects of school life. This will include the co-ordination of a team of staff and other resources available to identify and implement appropriate interventions and thus enable individuals to achieve maximum independence.
- Carry out assessments of children with additional support needs within school environment and to record access needs to assist with forward planning and prioritisation.
- Recommend and co-ordinate access solutions for individual children with additional support needs.
- Provide consultancy/training for postural management and manual handling.
- Responsibility for an identified equipment procurement and equipment servicing budget are a primary task of the postholder.
- To lead on the procurement and implementation of service contracts for specialist equipment used in schools under the Provision and Use of Working Equipment Regulations and the Manual Handling Operations regulations.
- To provide consultancy in relation to access solutions and make specialist equipment/design recommendations in educational environments.
- Work in partnership with young people and parents to ensure access for pupils and recommend appropriate support.
Qualification, Registration and Skill Requirements
- Educated to SCQF level 9 which includes a degree, or equivalent, in Occupational Therapy.
- Registration with Health and Care Professions council (HCPC).
- Significant relevant post qualification experience with evidence of transferable skills.
- A recognised post-qualifying award.
- Evidence of capacity to use expert clinical reasoning to; make independent decisions; accept responsibility for actions and use initiative within parameters of responsibility.
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Further Information
- Role Profile - When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile
- How We Work Matters - Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our How We Work Matters behaviour framework for more information.
- Employee Benefits - Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services.
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For further information please contact: Neil.Finnie@fife.gov.uk
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