Job Introduction
Are you an experienced SEND Manager?
We have an exciting opportunity to lead a new district assessment and review team to meet the challenge of an unprecedented demand for Education, Health, Care, Needs Assessments (EHCNA). You'll lead the team too ensure that children, young people, families and schools experience a high quality, timely and relational assessment experience.
This opportunity offers you a high degree of flexible working and some office based activity. You will have great support from the Central SEND team and colleagues across the 8 Staffordshire Districts. You will also have the invaluable support of a designated SEND Legal team and SEND Tribunals team.
This is 12 months fixed term post.
Main Responsibility
You will manage and lead a team of EHC Coordinators to deliver our statutory duties with EHCNA and review. Above all, you will:
- know the children and young people your team are responsible for and ensure that their assessment and review process is proactively managed.
- ensure that your team are well supported and working efficiently and effectively, placing the child at the centre of their work.
- need to be able to build strong and positive relationships with professionals across the SEND Area Partnership, mainstream and special schools.
- ensure that you and your team communicate effectively with all stakeholders, particularly our families.
The Ideal Candidate
An experienced SEND Team Manager who has successfully led a team to deliver high quality and timely EHCNA assessment and review of EHCPs.
You'll also:
- have an exceptional understanding of SEND law, SEND regulations and other relevant legislations.
- be child and family focussed in your work whilst always ensuring the Local Authority discharges its statutory duties.
We are looking to shortlist and interview in the week of 7 April.
Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Dr Halit Hulusi, Head of SEND halit.hulusi@staffordshire.gov.uk
Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
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