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 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

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.

(Consider your skills and experiences and demonstrate how you personally made a positive impact and the role you played.)

How you have used your financial acumen, skills, and experience to manage budgets with limited financial resources.

(Consider and demonstrate, how you ensured the delivery of accurate, timely and insightful financial information and analysis to manage budgets for managers and external customers.)

Describe your ability to build strong working relationships and build capacity through inspiring and motivating others.

(Consider and demonstrate your ability to lead, manage and support staff, including utilising policies including change management/workforce change, learning and development and absence management.)

Ways in which you have demonstrated your ability to embrace technology and information to influence and make improvements

(Consider how you have encouraged new ideas, used technology to enhance delivery of outcomes or streamlines processes.)

Demonstrate how you have led strategic change to bring about an improvement which has benefited the organisation

(Consider what skills and knowledge you used to lead a change initiative and the role you played.)

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

Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.

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