Job Description
4Recruitment Services are seeking a SEND Specialist Outreach Worker to work for our client based in Halifax.
The purpose of the SEND Specialist Outreach Worker role is to enable a Local Authority
(LA) to:
* Promote and sustain the inclusion of children and young people (CYP) with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in their local, mainstream schools and educational settings
* Build capacity within educational settings to ensure that CYP with SEND have their needs identified and assessed as early as possible
* Enable schools and settings to implement a high-quality graduated cycle of assessment, planning, doing, and reviewing their support.
* Ensure a continuum of provision for CYP with and SEND across the borough so that they have access to the right support, at the right time and in the right way.
* Uphold the legal obligations and principles enshrined in equalities law so that all CYP with SEND are free from discrimination and can live their best lives
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
1. Provide ongoing, flexible casework to monitor the extent and quality to which schools and educational settings have implemented and embedded recommendations for CYP with vision or multisensory impairments (VI/MSI) and SEND.
2. Establish and sustain positive working relationships with schools and educational settings acro...