Placements Manager – North East Location: Regional – remote/home base with regular travel across the North East Salary: £32k to 40k, + competitive performance related bonus (OTE up to c.£47,500 with unlimited enhanced scheme for over-achievement of targets) Hours: Full time 40 hours per week The Aurora Group We’re one of the largest providers of SEND educational and care services in the country, supporting over 1,200 children, young people and adults, and employing over 1,500 staff spread across 27 services around England. Due to our continuing growth; we’re currently looking for a Placements Manager for our North East, to work with our schools to coordinate and progress all work relating to the placements process.
Key Responsibilities: Working closely with our Business Development Managers and our Senior Leaders; the placements manager is key to the relationship management and referral functions of our Group. Your main focus will be working with our services to coordinate and progress all work relating to referrals – including running an efficient referrals process and maximising opportunities for placement conversion across the Group. Key to driving referral generation, progression and conversion will be your ability to build and maintain good relationships with key stakeholders including internal admissions teams and parents to ensure that Aurora is both seen as, and demonstrating that it is, an excellent service provider Your role is positioned as the central source of information regarding placements data for all schools, colleges and care homes, using databases to ensure all the latest information is accessible and accurate to inform the wider and Executive Team.
Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate these essential criteria: Experience of working in a similar role Experience of working in the specialist education/learning and care sector- children’s and/or adults A highly organised approach, strong administrative experience and aptitude for working through processes Excellent communication skills and able to forge and maintain positive relationship skills with stakeholders, especially parents Excellent reporting and analytical skills Ability to support parents through appeal and tribunals in partnership with service staff Ability to coordinate and manage tender and framework referral submissions Access to your own car and able to occasionally travel across the UK with the occasional overnight stay Experience of working in a Customer Service environment
Desirable Knowledge of EHCP and appeal/tribunal processes and SEN code of practice
What’s on offer? Training and Development - Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career. Save money on your bills!! - With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme. Competitive Pay and Reward - Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to ensure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Enhanced Pension Scheme and Life Assurance. UK Health Cash Plan - This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you. Employee Assistance Programme - Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7. Refer a friend for £1,000 - We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)
How to Apply: You can apply online by completing our online application form. Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer. This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.