Ehcp And Fe Support Coordinator Senco

Job Title:EHCP and FE Support Coordinator (SENCO)

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £37,099 - £39,347 per annum - SS6.

Job type: Fixed-Term (Up to 12 Months), Full-time.

University College Birmingham works in partnership with the University of Warwick - Ranked eighth in the 2023 Guardian League Tables and 10th in the UK in the QS World University rankings 2023.

The Role:

UCB's highly experienced Disability Support team requires cover for its SENCO role. The successful candidate will be joining UCB during an exciting period of growth, including the development of world-class facilities, and our partnership with University of Warwick.

The SENCO coordinates support for Further Education (FE) students who have disclosed a disability or SpLD. This will require managing our Academic Support Worker team on a day-to-day basis, maintaining quality of support provision, and working closely with our wider curriculum teams and external agencies.

The successful candidate will have proven managerial experience in this area, in addition to experience of working with Education Health and Care Plans (supporting students with EHCPs from transition in to transition out) and being empathetic towards students with disabilities/SpLDs.

Further, the successful candidate will have excellent communication and organisational skills, a thorough understanding of the OFSTED EIF, and an in-depth knowledge of associated disability legislation, funding, and regulatory bodies.

Subject to pre-employment checks, this role has a start date of March 2023.

Benefits:

• Generous allocation of annual leave
  
  • 26 days' paid leave per year
  • 12 Bank Holidays & Concessionary Days
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme
  
  • Employer Contributions - 20.9%
• Subsidised private healthcare provided by Aviva including a Digital GP Service.
• Employee Assistance Programme inclusive of counselling services, financial wellbeing support and bereavement support
• Annual health MOTs with our Registered Nurse
• Excellent staff development opportunities including professional qualification sponsorship
• A variety of salary sacrifice schemes including car, technology and cycle.
• Heavily-subsidised on-site car parking in central Birmingham
• Hybrid working opportunities
• Free on-site gym membership

Extra Information:

All applicants for employment at the University will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the principles of Safeguarding and the PREVENT agenda in the context of further and higher education.

Closing Date - Friday 8th March 2024.

Interview Dates - TBC.

UCB is an equal opportunities employer.

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Candidates with experience of: Support Staff Lead, Academic Support Coordinator, Education Support Coordinator, Education Support, will be considered for this role.