Head of Early Intervention

Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent.

Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.  

 In Bexley we are passionate about Early Intervention, multi-agency working and providing specialist advice to schools, early years settings and to parents and carers.

We are good at working collaboratively with other professionals and hold multi-disciplinary termly planning meetings with all our schools.

We work very closely with our health colleagues. We have established strong partnerships with Children’s Social Care, the Virtual School and our parent carer forum. 

We have recently been awarded 5 years of DfE funding to deliver additional Early Intervention programmes into our early years and school aged settings, using assistant psychologists and EP time.  

Please refer to the Job Description attached for more information. 

This is a fulltime position. 

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date. 

We are looking for a full-time Head of Service who is committed to making a difference for our children and young people, their parents, carers and our educational setting staff and who can lead and implement the strategic direction of the Service  
Specifically, we can offer you: 
 
A genuinely diverse team who have ongoing commitment to hiring a diverse workforce, and who consistently look at issues related to equality and diversity from a holistic lens to address conscious and unconscious bias.  

A friendly multi-disciplinary service that is highly valued by schools, families and other teams in the Local Authority 
A team that is committed to Early Intervention and evidence-based interventions, and that passionate about helping children with SEND achieve their goals.  
 
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)  

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.

The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.     

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Anticipated Interview Date: Beginning of June 2023 

Please note that the system has a one-hour time limit.

We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised and have your CV and/or Supporting statement ready to upload. 

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Additional Information 
As a disability confident employer Bexley welcomes applications from people with all disabilities, including hidden disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to any part of the recruitment process due to your disability, please contact us on  recruitment@bexley.gov.uk  

This role may be available as a development opportunity through secondment for the Council’s existing employees. 

The Council’s Secondment Scheme can be found here. If this option is of interest, please contact the recruiting manager.