Assessment and Training Officer

The Travel Assessment & Training Team provides a vital service supporting children and young people with Special Educational Needs/Disabilities (SEND), ensuring they are supported as needed to access their education.

The role includes training young people with additional needs to safely travel from home to school/college independently, and also to consider the eligibility of applications for travel support.

We are looking for someone to join the team, who is highly motivated, committed and a valuable team member. The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to support and challenge, experience of working under pressure and achieving deadlines, and you must be competent on all Microsoft Word applications and generally IT literate.

Accredited external training will be provided around the independent travel training, and on-the-job training will support the work around applications for travel support.

Responsibilities include:

• To prepare and develop individual travel plans for children and young people appropriate to their individual needs and levels of vulnerability and contributing to their overall education, health and care plans.
• To programme training and instructional sessions for children and young people and to deliver them, creating a positive learning environment in a range of occasionally challenging circumstances and behaviours
• To initiate and conduct detailed and specific risk assessments relating to safe travel arrangements comprising all environmental factors and potential behaviours

Note: the active training aspects of the role are primarily outdoors, and involve walking and the use of public transport. Bus passes and waterproof clothes are provided.

The Travel Assessment & Training Team is based at Howden House (Union Street, S1), but flexibility is available to also work from home.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

Informal contact: Jill Siddall 01142053542