Special education advisor

Ministry of Education – Whangarei, North Island

We are looking for a permanent, full‑time special education advisor to join our team 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 :

All applications must be submitted online via the Ministry Careers Portal (see vacancy link).

Allison Rangi

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