SEND Service Manager
SEND Service Manager
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Job Description
We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Tower Hamlets to assist with the appointment of a SEND Service Manager on a 5month contract likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.
Rate of Pay: 306.50 403.55 per day
Responsibilities:
- To manage and lead the SEN Service in the processing of the statutory assessment procedures for children and young people with education health and care needs under the terms of the Children and Families Act 2014 and the SEN Code of Practice 2014.
- To ensure the performance of the SEND teams meets statutory requirements and performance targets including the quality of EHCPs and Annual Reviews developing promoting and ensuring rigorous quality assurance processes.
- To take responsibility for liaising closely with parents schools and other professionals in order to manage the complex process of carrying out EHC assessments of children and to coproduce EHC Plans with families keeping the child at the centre of a personcentred approach and having regard to the voice of the child and the aspirations of the family at all times
- To manage the placement of children with EHCPs to deliver the targets of the High Needs Funding arrangements.
- To develop and maintain partnerships with colleagues from Education including schools Health and Social Care to ensure appropriate and costeffective provision is available for CYP with EHCPs.
- Ensure timely reporting of progress on service improvement targets to the Head of SEND.
Qualification:
- An extensive knowledge of the Children and Families Act 2014 and the associated SEND Code of Practice
- An uptodate understanding of proposed changes in developments in special needs
Please note:
- You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
- You should have right to work in U.K
- This role requires an enhanced DBS
Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary though assignments can be and often are extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
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Employment Type
Full Time
