SEND EHC Casework Assistant

Job Title: SEND EHC Casework Assistant
Starting Salary: £26,835- £30,060 pa
Hours: 37
Location: Stevenage
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Childrens Services

About the team

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.

The Statutory SEND Assessment Team focus on working with families and professionals whilst undertaking the statutory assessment process.

About the role

The role of the Casework Assistant is to be responsible for supporting the statutory assessment process, ensuring that families have relevant and purposeful information and advice from weeks 0 to 20. Statutory responsibilities include coordinating multi-agency assessments of education, health and care and ensuring that Education, Health and Care Plans are up to date and reflect the needs of the child and the provision they require.

The Case Assistant needs to engage with professionals across education, health and care to support the decision making and assessment process, including:

• Supporting the EHC coordinator with a range of casework activities, including Supporting casework relating to placement - which could include research, contacting schools to discuss cases, amendments and finalising of EHC plans
• To input and maintain accurate and comprehensive database records as required, and participate in the Local Authority's systems for monitoring and quality assurance for children and young people with EHC plans.
• To work collaboratively with professionals across education, health and care services to ensure effective case management, integrated working practice and successful outcomes for children.
• To participate occasionally in a range of meetings with other professionals and parents/carers in relation to individual children.
• Contribute to the development of policy, procedures and provision for children with SEN children's needs, which includes maintaining an up to date knowledge relating to SEN casework, changes to national legislation and departmental policies, and supporting induction/training and support to all team members.

About you

Essential:

• Basic knowledge of SEND and experience of working with families
• Excellent organisation skills including an ability to work independently, systematically and work with conflicting demands
• Excellent customer service skills using verbal and written communication methods.
  
• The ability to undertake a variety of administrative tasks, operating within departmental policies and procedures
  
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team. Together with self-motivation and the ability to work unsupervised.
  
• Some travel to meetings may be necessary.

This is a high pressure, interesting and varied role where you have to juggle daily with competing demands and priorities. Working closely with parents, families and professionals to ensure children and young people's special educational needs are understood and well supported.

Desirable:

• A good understanding and experience of SEND of working with families

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

This job role is within the Health and Social Care, level 7 job profile. Please locate this via: Job profiles - Health and social care

To hear more about this opportunity please contact Lauren Irons lauren.irons@hertfordshire.gov.uk and Claudine Tavner claudine.tavner@hertfordshire.gov.uk f or an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: 22nd and 23rd April

Benefits of working for us

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.

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.

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.