SEND Case Office – Education

What's involved with this role:
Interim SEND Case Office – Education
Job Ref: Surrey TCL 88306
Pay Rate: £171.58 per day PAYE
Hours per week: 35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: Woking, Surrey
A DBS disclosure is listed as a requirement for this role; however, the level of disclosure has not been specified by the client.
The SEND case worker will be responsible for managing a case load of children and young people with SEND acting as a key point of contact. this includes engagement with families, children, young people, schools, colleges and other partners where a statutory assessment request has been made. Or responding to change in circumstances.
The post holder will be required to travel to and attend meetings at education settings across Surrey and on occasion outside Surrey. The role holder should undertake their work with due regard to the equitable use of resources and to drive the sustainability of services financially, underpinning the SEND Transformation through their individual practice and supporting the development of others.
Key Responsibilities:
Work with families of children with Special Needs and Disability and coordinate service provision across education, health and care to ensure holistic delivery plan for individual child and family.
Work collaboratively with families, schools and other key partners agencies for individual children and young people with SEND to ensure children and young people are educated and are in receipt of appropriate provision that is inline with their holistic needs.
Work closely with and facilitate engagement with educational settings and relevant practitioners to support, advise and monitor the local offer and to work with schools on individual cases as needed. Plan production and the experience of families, carers, children and young people should be high quality.
Identify opportunities and risks associated with the service and escalate / report to management.
Assess and manage risk associated with assigned cases/service delivery.
Contribute to the regular monitoring and review of services established to facilitate service improvement.
Provide specialist/professional advice and recommendations within defined policy and procedures to support informed decision making.
Make recommendations for the provision of services in line with the budget determined according to assessment of needs, and advises less experienced staff on budget and costs of services.
Allocate work and monitor the standard of team performance and ensure resolution of any issues, and / or may take on a coordinating and supervisory role with more junior staff as directed by their manager.
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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:
Full UK driving licence required.
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.
Qualifications:
Educated to A level minimum / equivalent training / experience of SEN knowledge and experience, namely Code of Practice and Children and Families Act 14.
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Good knowledge of SEND policy and practice, national guidance and legislation.
Good knowledge of SCC’s Local Offer and that of its mainstream and special schools or a willingness to acquire such knowledge.
Good knowledge of educational settings and a willingness to develop this across the 0-25 age range.
Knowledge of evidence based effective intervention and able to articulate well within report writing.
Ability to take ownership for writing and maintaining the EHC, and to present to partnership resource allocation forum as and when required.
Demonstrable experience of working in a collaborative way with children/young people and parents to ensure families views are heard and applied.
Significant experience of working with vulnerable children/young people, especially those with SEND.
Practical knowledge of relevant legislation, processes and procedures and issues relating to the service user group with ability to apply this in challenging situations
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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Job Ref: Surrey TCL 88306
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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