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Advisory Teacher (Visually Impaired)
Date: 18 Jun 2026
Job Location: Gloucestershire
Job Title: Advisory Teacher (Visually Impaired)
Job Location: Edinburgh House
Salary: MPS or UPR
Hours per Week: 1.0 FTE
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 28/09/2026
Job Requisition Number: 14137
Note: This post is not open to job share
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
Are you a QTVI with the knowledge and drive to ensure the very best outcomes for children and young people with visual impairments across Gloucestershire? If so, we would love to hear from you.
About The Role
A key element of the newly launched DfE Experts at Hand offer, our countywide Sensory Team delivers specialist support with compassion, innovation, and excellence. This is your opportunity as a QTVI to make a lasting impact whilst helping learners develop their independence, confidence, and the skills they need to succeed in education and beyond.
You will deliver high-quality, timely assessments and interventions, working collaboratively with families, educational settings, and health professionals to support children and young people with visual impairments.
Teaching specialist skills such as Braille, the use of assistive technologies, and independent living techniques, your role will be to promote high aspirations and support smooth transitions at key educational stages, including preparation for adulthood.
You will be part of a supportive, dynamic and highly skilled team, who are forward-thinking and collaborative in their approach. The role of advisory teacher is demanding, but also incredibly rewarding. You will be joining a service that is highly acclaimed and trusted by Gloucestershire schools and the families we serve.
About You
You are a Qualified Teacher and hold the mandatory QTVI qualification. You will bring experience working with children and young people (ages 0–25) with visual impairments and additional needs, and you will feel confident in assessing and recommending specialist equipment and technologies.
Your excellent communication, empathy, and interpersonal skills will help you build strong relationships, while your ability to manage a caseload means you can work both independently and collaboratively as part of our team.
You understand the Gloucestershire Graduated Pathway and SEND processes, and you will be committed to safeguarding, equality, and your own continuous professional development.
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A valid driving licence and access to a car for countywide travel will also be essential in this rewarding role.
This is more than a teaching role, it's a chance to be a champion for inclusion, independence, and opportunity. If you're passionate about making education accessible and meaningful for every learner, we’d love to hear from you.
About Us
STEPS (Specialist Teacher and Educational Psychology Service) offer advice, training and support in schools and educational settings so that staff develop inclusive practice and can support children and young people with special educational needs to meet their potential and achieve good outcomes.
We have bases across Gloucestershire. The Advisory Teaching Service offers support for CYP with a range of SEN including Communication & Interaction, Cognition & Learning and Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs. You would be part of our specialist team who support CYP with physical disabilities, vision, hearing and multi-sensory impairments. The Advisory Teachers work collaboratively with the Educational Psychology service.
To find out more about the team please visit the STEPS webpage here.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Nicholle Lennon via email at Nicholle.Lennon@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Short-listed candidates will be contacted by e-mail and invited to interview.
What’s in it for you?
You’ll be entitled to our full benefits package, including:
- Teachers pay and conditions
- Membership of a Local Government Pension Scheme
- Free offsite car parking
- Safe, supportive and positive working environment
- Regular formal and informal support
- Training and development opportunities
- Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
- Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network
- Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme and Cycle Scheme (T&C's apply)
- Cycle to Work Scheme
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How To Apply
Please write your application with consideration for the criteria in the Job Profile (see link below).
Your application should include examples of why you should be considered and cover the experience, skills and knowledge that you would bring to the post.
Closing date: 28/09/2026
Short-listed candidates will be contacted by e-mail and invited to interview.
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-
Qualified Teacher of the Visually Impaired - Job Profile
This Position is subject to a DBS check.
Applications from any Gloucestershire County Council's employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at shortlisting stage.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
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