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Starting £40,221 to £44,428 per annum


Job Title: SEND Casework Team Lead
Location: Main base - Stevenage or Hemel Hempstead
Starting salary: £ 40,221 to £44,428 per annum
Contract: Permanent, 37 hours per week

Things are changing in SEND for Hertfordshire County Council. We are making SEND everyone's business.

Do you want to make a positive impact and be part of that change? We're investing in our statutory SEND workforce.

What does the role involve?
We've got opportunities for SEND Casework Team Leaders within our School Age Reviews Team, and Resolutions Team.

School Age Reviews

You'll be overseeing EHC Coordinators, who are responsible for Education, Health, and Care Annual Reviews, for school age children. The team focuses on coordinating professionals across education, health and care and coproducing plans and provision with families of school age children.

You'll support your team to coproduce Education Health and Care plans in a person-centred way, maintaining excellent communication and quality standards. You'll keep an eye on the data and performance of the team, ensuring that we meet our statutory timescales.

You'll provide line management and supervision to the team, ensuring that every member of the team delivers our statutory SEND obligations and works to achieve the overall service targets and development plan. You'll support ongoing professional development, including induction, delivering training, and performance management processes for your team.

You will strive to maintain, develop and improve professional, supportive working relationships with education settings and parents in relation to EHC assessments and plans.

We are looking for you to have:
  • Excellent knowledge of experience of the Children and Families Act 2014, SEND Code of Practice and SEND Regulations 2014.
  • Experience of managing staff and delivering excellent service outcomes in a previous role is strongly desirable
  • Current driving license and access to a car to be able to travel to a range of work bases and schools and this role does require you to be in one of our offices regularly and some countywide travel.
  • Educated to degree level or have significant experience of a range of work within education.
  • Experience of working well under pressure and being extremely well organised
If you have an unrelenting drive to ensure excellent outcomes for children with special educational needs and disabilities, and you can motivate and manage a team to achieve this - this may be your perfect role!

Interview date: 6th November 2024 - Interviews will be held in our Apsley office

For an informal conversation about the School Age SEND role, please contact Rupinder.ahluwalia@hertfordshire.gov.uk

Benefits of working for us:
• Excellent Career Development
• Salary Exchange for Additional Benefits
• Excellent Pension Scheme with Employer Contributions
• Shopping Discounts
• Support Groups & Wellbeing Schemes

Disability Confident: We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

English Fluency: The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.

Safeguarding: Safeguarding children and adults is of utmost importance to Hertfordshire County Council. The Council requires employees to abide by legislation and best practice to enable Hertfordshire to achieve this. This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check. For more information Click Here

This job role is within the , level job profile. Please locate this via:

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How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Secondment
This position is open to secondments. If you work for HCC or any other Local Authority and would like to be considered as a Secondment contract, please ensure you complete the Secondment Form as part of your application. If you do not, your application will be considered as a Fixed Term Contract only.

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Driving required
You'll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.

Closing date: Sun 27/10/2024 at 01:00
Job reference: HCC25140
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