Job Posting Title: Support Coordinator - SEND
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2024
City: Gloucester
Country: United Kingdom
Working time: Full-time
Description & Requirements
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Maximus is a global organisation that specialises in providing health and employment services to millions of people every year. Here in the UK we employ around 5,000 people across the country to deliver services that have a profound impact on people’s lives. From assessments and health services to employability programmes and specialist support, we do work that matters with people who care.
The role will be working with children or young people with special educational needs and disabilities on our weight management programmes. They will be supporting complex families and communities to make sustained behaviour change and tailor their approach to meet individual needs.
1. To support individual children, young people and families on our programmes
2. To work with communities to empower them to support children with SEND
3. To support delivery of the BZ Families programme across Gloucestershire
4. To help develop and implement high quality learning resources to support individual needs
5. To work collaboratively with other internal and external stakeholders
6. To support with administrative tasks including participant sign-up, data capture and reporting
7. To support Triage across BeeZee Bodies programmes
Qualifications
1. A relevant qualification in youth/community/wellbeing/health/education/social care/counselling
2. Lived experience of living/working with people with special educational needs and/or disabilities
Experience
Essential:
1. Experience of working with children and young people
2. Experience of working with people living with disabilities or those with complex needs
3. Experience of working on events involving young people
Desirable:
1. Experience of designing and delivering engaging sessions for young people with SEND
2. Experience of working in a health, education or social care environment or good understanding of supporting others to maintain a healthy lifestyle
3. Experience of managing safeguarding cases
Individual Competencies
1. Empathy combined with a genuine desire and commitment to improve the quality of the lives of the young people
2. A personable, non-judgemental and sensitive approach to communicating with the public
3. Excellent communication skills with the ability and confidence to establish positive relationships with young people and motivate them to participate in activities and projects
4. IT literate especially excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office
5. Excellent data processing and data management system skills
6. Excellent organizational skills to manage and prioritise workload, anticipate needs and work on own initiative and as part of a high functioning team
7. Able to carry out your roles and responsibilities whilst holding a complex caseload
8. Fluent and clear in English speaking
9. Confident, self-motivated, passionate, flexible, adaptable and creative
10. Attention to detail
11. Able to respond positively to new situations
12. Methodical with the ability to understand and meet targets and deadlines, able to learn and assimilate new information
13. Ability to reflect and appraise own performance and that of others
14. Drive and have own car
Key Business Priorities
Internal:
1. Line managed by Contract Manager of BeeZee Bodies Gloucestershire Contract.
2. Will form part of the BeeZee Bodies Gloucestershire team, working together to deliver weight management services to CYP and their families.
External:
1. Will work closely with community organisations, partners and families for excellent delivery in Gloucestershire, providing feedback to partners and community organisations on the development of the programmes.
2. Will likely feedback to Gloucestershire CYP Clinical MDT on individual cases
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