EHCP Locality Lead

What's involved with this role:
Interim EHCP Locality Lead
Reference no: Gloucestershire 5243556
Pay rate: £411.64 per day PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 09:00-17:30
This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: GLOUCESTER, Gloucestershire
Enhanced DBS required for this role
An EHCP Locality Lead is required to lead a team of EHCP tribunal and mediation officers and ensure development and improvement to service delivery in this area. To ensure that children and young people with Education, Health & Care plans (EHCPs) within a specific locality achieve positive outcomes by accessing an education which is appropriate to meet their continuing needs. Candidates will need to be experienced in managing and developing teams and have significant experience in EHCP tribunals and mediation and working on complex cases as well as an excellent understanding of the legal processes.
Key responsibilities:
Effectively manage an Area team to ensure that children and young people with EHCPs, their families and other professionals receive the support they need to achieve the best outcomes and that statutory duties are met.
Support and develop key networks and relationships both internally and externally, including with other teams and agencies supporting children and young people to provide a holistic approach to meeting needs.
Work closely with schools and other educational settings (pre-school, mainstream, academies, special schools and attached centres) on all aspects of SEND provision.
Manage, monitor and evaluate the quality of SEND casework with regard to statutory requirements and timeframes, addressing any issues of compliance and ensuring services are child and family centred and outcome focused, regardless of internal or partnership structures.
Audit provision in schools to inform the development, implementation and moderation of funding systems for allocating resources.
Lead in some aspects of project and strategic development work.
Monitor and contribute to reviewing the effective delegation of SEND resources.
Lead, develop and monitor processes relating to assessment and provision; for children and young people aged 0-25.
Ensure effective and transparent decision making is in place and is quality assured including chairing panel meetings.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
Qualified Teacher Status or equivalent, with further wide experience on all aspects of SEN.
Evidence of continuous professional development.
Experience:
Experienced in managing and developing teams.
Significant experience in EHCP tribunals and mediation and working on complex cases.
An excellent understanding of the legal processes.
Experience of managing statutory processes.
Excellent knowledge and experience of SEND.
Experience in identifying potential concerns regarding the delivery of SEN provision including observation, evaluation and report writing.
Experience of working in partnership with parent carers.
Successful experience of multi agency working across agency and professional boundaries.
Experience of monitoring and managing budgets.
Experience within an Education Department/as a SENCO/within a specialist school or educational setting desirable.
Skills & Abilities:
Proven skills in effective involvement and partnership work with stakeholders, (including parents, young people, families, voluntary and private sectors and partner services) to develop and improve service provision.
Ability to identify quality educational provision and offer appropriate support/challenge to drive change.
Ability to lead/support projects.
Ability to work effectively with parents, children and young people.
Ability to develop productive working relationships with people at all levels.
Ability to work under pressure with changing patterns of work demands.
Negotiation and influence skills.
Ability to use initiative and be proactive.
Ability to build credible and effective relationships with schools.
Excellent interpersonal skills, able to work independently and as part of a team.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
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Job Ref: Gloucestershire 5243556
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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