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Salary:£32,076 - £33,945
Hours per week:37 hours
Temporary/Fixed term:12 month contracts and 24 month contracts available
Interview date:Week beginning Monday 11 November 2024
Education and Skills - Building Bright Futures
Are you ready to make a meaningful impact as a SEND Lead Worker? Join our SEND and Inclusion service and help improve outcomes that bring positive changes to the lives of families and children/young people with SEND.
We take great pride in our passionate and enthusiastic approach, delivering high quality support tailored to the unique needs of every individual. Our focus is on preventive and early intervention, ensuring that our services are child, young person, and family-centred, always listening to and responding to their voices.
Main duties of the job
As a SEND Lead Worker, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating and facilitating the Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment and/or overseeing the review and monitoring process of Education, Health, and Care plans (EHCP). Your responsibilities will encompass efficiently managing administrative functions within these statutory processes and meeting crucial statutory deadlines.
In this role, you will identify when specialist involvement is necessary and establish the appropriate contacts. Additionally, you will be based at a locality hub for at least one day a week.
We are looking for passionate and dedicated individuals who are highly organised and possess extensive experience of working in partnership with children, young people, and their families, particularly those with SEND. You must hold a minimum of a level 4 recognised qualification and a minimum of two years of experience in early years, social care, health, or education.
About us
Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. Thats why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right.
Please download and read therole description and person specificationcarefully before you apply as well asOur Identity.
The council is committed to creating an environment of positive working relationships where everyone feels engaged, supported and able to thrive. Our Identity is a framework which sets out how we are all expected to lead, work and act to deliver our services. We will not tolerate discrimination, bullying or harassment of any kind. Everyone is expected to promote a culture of inclusion, dignity, trust and respect which is underpinned by our vision and Our Identity framework.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To act as the key point of contact for the young person and family, and to coordinate any activities
that are required to assess needs, meet any outcomes specified, and ensure the provision of holistic
care and support.
There will be a requirement to coordinate the Education, Health and Care Needs assessment
process, working with the child, young person and their families to identify outcomes and how these
can be met. The SEND lead worker will be the person who liaises with other professionals to ensure
that the child/young person and their family has an organised and coordinated approach in order to
meet their outcomes.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- Act as a single point of regular and consistent contact for children, young people with SEND
and their families, when being supported with a My Plan.
- The SEND lead worker will work with colleagues to support inclusion in mainstream and
universal settings.
- The SEND lead worker will ensure the appropriate arrangement of services and advice,
support and guidance.
- To provide advice and support for settings/services and families on SEND related matters
including when applying for statutory assessment for individual children.
- To work in close partnership with settings/services securing best outcomes for children and
young people with SEND.
- To promote the early identification of children and young people with SEND additional needs.
- Co-ordinate practitioners and services around the child, young person and their family. A key
role of the SEND lead worker will be to identify when specialist (Social workers, Educational
Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, other professionals etc.) involvement is required,
make the appropriate contacts and ensure effective liaison with the specialists. Arrange
person centred Team Around the Child meetings (Multidisciplinary and/or multiagency) as
required.
- Be proactive in promoting multi agency partnership working as best practice. To be
instrumental in developing pathways for joint working- including Every Child matters and the
National Service Framework.
- Co-ordinate and facilitate a joint Education, Health and Care Needs assessment process and
single holistic person centred plan that focuses on the child or young persons educational,
health and social care needs in line with the Education Act 2011 and when appropriate the
NHS and Community Care Act 1990 and other legislation and organisational policy and
reviews.
- Ensure that each need identified in the assessment is matched to an outcome in the plan.
The plan will be agreed with young people and their families.
- Responsible for drafting and finalising single plans, including those with statutory protections.
Ensure that the plan is reviewed as agreed.
- Enable young people and their families to identify and agree outcomes and how they can be
achieved, including discussing the option of a personal budget. It will be necessary at all
times to work to the key operating principles of the service to ensure that the young person
and their family have choice and control and that the services provided are cost effective and
that any risks are clearly identified. The SEND lead worker will apply criteria and when appropriate, the Fair Access to Care Criteria in relation to the provision of services. The
SEND lead worker will operate within and across the legislative frameworks for childrens
services and adult social care.
- Support children and young people to move between non statutory and statutory support as
required. When moving into statutory support they will be responsible for monitoring work
progress to ensure that national indicators and legislative deadlines are met.
- Raise the quality and effectiveness of inclusive practice - to develop and deliver training in
response to government initiatives and identified needs, for example in keyworking, working
in partnership and person centred thinking.
- Understand, and deliver on, departmental priorities for high quality services, aiming for good
results in Key Performance Indicators.
- Be responsible for collecting and recording relevant data that will inform strategic planning
and commissioning, as requested.
- Management of own caseload - prioritising work and tasks appropriately and using effective
time management skills. Working within guidelines and using own discretion
- To carry out all tasks and responsibilities in accordance with legal requirements across
education, health and social care, including identifying if a vulnerable child/young person may
be at risk
- To contribute to the development of the SEND service, to respond to operational needs by
initiating, developing and implementing innovate solutions.
- May deputise for a Senior SEND lead worker, as and when required
Job description
Job responsibilities
To act as the key point of contact for the young person and family, and to coordinate any activities
that are required to assess needs, meet any outcomes specified, and ensure the provision of holistic
care and support.
There will be a requirement to coordinate the Education, Health and Care Needs assessment
process, working with the child, young person and their families to identify outcomes and how these
can be met. The SEND lead worker will be the person who liaises with other professionals to ensure
that the child/young person and their family has an organised and coordinated approach in order to
meet their outcomes.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- Act as a single point of regular and consistent contact for children, young people with SEND
and their families, when being supported with a My Plan.
- The SEND lead worker will work with colleagues to support inclusion in mainstream and
universal settings.
- The SEND lead worker will ensure the appropriate arrangement of services and advice,
support and guidance.
- To provide advice and support for settings/services and families on SEND related matters
including when applying for statutory assessment for individual children.
- To work in close partnership with settings/services securing best outcomes for children and
young people with SEND.
- To promote the early identification of children and young people with SEND additional needs.
- Co-ordinate practitioners and services around the child, young person and their family. A key
role of the SEND lead worker will be to identify when specialist (Social workers, Educational
Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, other professionals etc.) involvement is required,
make the appropriate contacts and ensure effective liaison with the specialists. Arrange
person centred Team Around the Child meetings (Multidisciplinary and/or multiagency) as
required.
- Be proactive in promoting multi agency partnership working as best practice. To be
instrumental in developing pathways for joint working- including Every Child matters and the
National Service Framework.
- Co-ordinate and facilitate a joint Education, Health and Care Needs assessment process and
single holistic person centred plan that focuses on the child or young persons educational,
health and social care needs in line with the Education Act 2011 and when appropriate the
NHS and Community Care Act 1990 and other legislation and organisational policy and
reviews.
- Ensure that each need identified in the assessment is matched to an outcome in the plan.
The plan will be agreed with young people and their families.
- Responsible for drafting and finalising single plans, including those with statutory protections.
Ensure that the plan is reviewed as agreed.
- Enable young people and their families to identify and agree outcomes and how they can be
achieved, including discussing the option of a personal budget. It will be necessary at all
times to work to the key operating principles of the service to ensure that the young person
and their family have choice and control and that the services provided are cost effective and
that any risks are clearly identified. The SEND lead worker will apply criteria and when appropriate, the Fair Access to Care Criteria in relation to the provision of services. The
SEND lead worker will operate within and across the legislative frameworks for childrens
services and adult social care.
- Support children and young people to move between non statutory and statutory support as
required. When moving into statutory support they will be responsible for monitoring work
progress to ensure that national indicators and legislative deadlines are met.
- Raise the quality and effectiveness of inclusive practice - to develop and deliver training in
response to government initiatives and identified needs, for example in keyworking, working
in partnership and person centred thinking.
- Understand, and deliver on, departmental priorities for high quality services, aiming for good
results in Key Performance Indicators.
- Be responsible for collecting and recording relevant data that will inform strategic planning
and commissioning, as requested.
- Management of own caseload - prioritising work and tasks appropriately and using effective
time management skills. Working within guidelines and using own discretion
- To carry out all tasks and responsibilities in accordance with legal requirements across
education, health and social care, including identifying if a vulnerable child/young person may
be at risk
- To contribute to the development of the SEND service, to respond to operational needs by
initiating, developing and implementing innovate solutions.
- May deputise for a Senior SEND lead worker, as and when required
Person Specification
Experience
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Desirable
Qualifications
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Desirable
Person Specification
Experience
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Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
