Description
The job itself
This is an exciting opportunity to become part of our Special Educational Needs and Disability Assessment and Review Team (SENDART). We are passionate about promoting high aspirations and expectations for children and young people and we are now seeking two like-minded individuals to join our team to support the growing number of children and young people in the East Riding with SEND (0-25 years) and their families.
The Assistant Education, Health and Care Officer (AEHCO) posts support the statutory EHC plan annual review processes, ensuring that we can provide both a timely and quality service to help secure the best possible outcomes for children and young people with SEND. This is an exciting time to be joining us on our journey of development and be part of a team that is ambitious and aspiring to provide outstanding services to the children and young people of East Riding of Yorkshire and their families.
We are looking for two dedicated, organised, and resilient people with excellent communication skills to join SENDART as Assistant Education, Health and Care Officers (AEHCOs). You will join a busy, fast paced team working with Education Health Care Officers (EHCOs), educational settings, professionals and families of children and young people with SEND to ensure the effective delivery of EHC plan annual review processes against statutory timescales. Working closely with your area Senior EHCO, you will lead on the co-ordination of annual review activity within a given geographic area, ensuring that educational settings have the information and guidance they require to hold high quality EHC plan annual reviews. You will help to ensure that contributing information to annual reviews is high quality and meets statutory requirements to which the LA must adhere.
This is a challenging role that requires the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships therefore good people skills are essential. You will act with a degree of autonomy and be expected to take a proactive approach to problem solving and contributing towards service improvement, informed by the desire to help achieve the best possible outcomes for children and young people with SEND in East Riding.
We are looking for highly organised individuals with strong admin skills and excellent people skills. You will be educated to A Level standard or equivalent, preferably in a related field, and have experience of working with children, young people with SEND and their families and/or an awareness of the barriers and challenges that children with special educational needs may experience in their education. Ideally you will be familiar with Education Health and Care Plan processes and timescales and have an understanding of the SEND Code of Practice (2015).
The role is offered at Grade 5a. The posts will cover a given geographic area of the East Riding. We offer the opportunity for blended working, including working from home and some office-based working hours.