What's involved with this role: Interim Senior SEND Commissioner Gloucestershire 5263197 Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role. Some home working during a working week is expected however candidates must be prepared to travel to Gloucestershire and surrounding areas. Full UK driving licence and access to own car is required. Key Requirements: Experience of managing statutory and non-statutory agreed processes. Excellent understanding of specialist placement commissioning. Excellent knowledge and experience of the SEN sector. Successful experience of multi-agency working across agency and professional boundaries. Experience of monitoring and managing budgets. Experience of developing and implementing Quality audit frameworks, monitoring, and reviewing practice. Experience of holistic assessment and planning for children including pooling resources. Experience of developing and reviewing systems and processes to allocate resources and to monitor and measure impact. Experience of managing a staff team. The overall purpose of this role is to ensure that children and young people with Education, Health and Care plans (EHCPs) achieve positive outcomes by accessing an education which is appropriate to meet their continuing needs. The role will provide daily operational management and ensure that the quality of SEND education provision is in line with commissioning practice and that the effective monitoring of quality is embedded across the SEND Services. The role is also responsible for managing and leading appropriate processes and policies, underpinned by best practice and child centred approaches. Key Responsibilities: Support the SEND Leadership Team in leading the development and implementation of change projects leading to improved integrated working and better outcomes for children. Deputise for the SEND Sufficiency Service Manager and facilitate the continued delivery of the service. Provide line management, supervision, and work oversight to the Specialist Commissioning Team. Support and develop key networks and relationships both internally and externally, including with other teams and agencies supporting children and families – to ensure services are working together to support children and young people. Work closely with education settings, legal services, and other practitioners on all aspects of quality assurance and sufficiency. Work with providers to provide constructive challenge and support to improve outcomes for children, including investigating complaints and contacts from parents and regulators Develop, manage and implement appropriate commissioning processes for Section 19 and EOTAS, including safeguarding oversight. Work in partnership with the internal education services and Altus school to develop specialist outreach support for children at risk of/or have been excluded. Develop and implement processes to reduce the number of children/young people with EHCPs who are currently or potentially children missing education (CME) and engage them in their learning. 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. 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. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. s Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please.