2 Special Education Advisors

We are looking for a couple of permanent, full-time Special Education Advisors to join 2 of our teams based in the Whangārei office in Northland.

As a special education advisor, you will play a critical role in our region's learning support team by doing the following:

• Working collaboratively with a team around the child, including educators, parents, caregivers and whānau, to enhance understanding about the child and their behaviours.
• Collaboratively develop, implement, and monitor an effective personalised learning plan.
• Helping the adults around the child to make changes to the learning environment so that their behaviour can be more effectively managed, and the situation can be stabilised/made safer. This includes supporting the child to develop more pro-social ways of responding, and improve their participation, wellbeing and learning outcomes.
• Facilitating access to wider services and support, in response to individual needs, for example speech and language therapy and local agencies.
• Enhancing inclusive practices in schools and other educational settings.

You will also offer:

• demonstrable knowledge, experience, and skills in supporting children and young people with severe and challenging behaviours
• an ability and willingness to work in collaborative partnership with other professionals, agencies, families and the sector
• excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including an ability to sustain productive professional relationships
• a genuine commitment to evidence-based interventions, which demonstrate inclusive education practice and contribute to raising student achievement.
• Bachelor of Teaching or Postgraduate Diploma in Special Education or Educational Psychology
• sensitivity to cultural and ethnic diversity and a commitment to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi
• the ability and willingness to adhere to the Public Service Standards of Integrity and Conduct.