Meadow House, Littleworth Road, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 2TB
Department: Children and Families
Interview date: 28 January 2025
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The ICDS EHC Assessment Team is responsible for facilitating the statutory Education, Health & Care Plan (EHCP) assessment process and for maintaining all EHCPs on behalf of the Local Authority. Currently, we are maintaining approximately 5350 EHCPs and are receiving an average of 40 plus new EHC Needs Assessment requests per week.
The SEND Education Pathway Officer is an exciting but critical role within the statutory EHC Needs Assessment process and in progressing our service improvements.
We are currently recruiting a 0.6 (22.2hrs) SEND Education Pathway Officer (SEPO) to join our SEPO team and to support us on our improvement journey.
Responsibilities
You will be required to:
* Act as lead professional in decision making regarding EHC Needs Assessment Requests and support the implementation of the graduated approach and provision of SEN Support for children and young people with SEND across a range of education settings including early years, mainstream, and post 16 settings.
* Act as the interface between the LA and education settings, ensuring that the graduated approach to supporting CYP with SEND across a range of settings has been applied and is fully understood when requests for EHC needs assessments are received by the LA.
* Work in partnership with professionals, children, young people, and their parents/carers, embedding co-production while using person-centred approaches.
* Manage requests for EHC Needs Assessment within the statutory timescales for Education, Health, and Care assessment requests in accordance with the SEND Code of Practice 2015 and improve the quality of decision making.
* Provide appropriate challenge and support to education leadership teams and other professionals to support the development of inclusive practice and the universal adoption of the graduated approach.
* Have an excellent working knowledge and application of the Children and Families Act 2014, SEND Regulations 2015, and SEND Code of Practice 2014.
* Contribute and analyse information that is required where there is a SEND appeal to Mediation and First Tier Tribunals.
* Arrange and facilitate next steps meetings with settings and families following a 'no to assess' decision.
* Demonstrate a high level of personal drive and commitment, and the ability to set an example to others.
* Have knowledge and experience of using a range of case management systems and IT programmes including Microsoft Office, Teams, Outlook, Excel, etc.
* Work under pressure and meet deadlines.
The Person
We are looking for a highly motivated, resilient worker with the ability to work under pressure. You will need to demonstrate your enthusiasm to improve services for children and young people with additional needs and be able to organise and manage your work within set statutory timescales. You will be highly skilled in communication and negotiation with experience in working effectively with young people with additional needs, their parents/carers, as well as a range of Education, Health, and Social Care agencies and professionals. Above all else, you will demonstrate an ambition to support our young people in reaching their aspirations.
This post is also available as a secondment opportunity to existing Nottinghamshire County Council employees. You must seek approval from your line manager before applying.
Appointment to this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Disabled applicants who meet the essential shortlisting requirements will be guaranteed an interview. A job share scheme is available for all full-time posts: both permanent and temporary, unless otherwise stated. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment and undergo appropriate checks.
Nottinghamshire County Council strives to ensure that it goes beyond the requirements of the Equalities Act and prides itself on being accredited as a Disability Confident Leader Organisation.
Therefore, the County Council encourages applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, religion, belief, pregnancy and maternity status, age, or sexual orientation.
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