Overview
Salary: Soulbury EIP 9-12, £52,711 to £56,871 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: 37 hours per week, full-time, Monday to Friday
Location: County Hall Chichester, with hybrid working
Closing date: Sunday 28 September 2025
Interview date: Thursday 09 and Friday 10 October 2025
Do you have a good knowledge of SEND and EHCPs? Are you passionate about leading a team that supports children\'s learning? This is an exciting time to join the Special Educational Needs Assessment Team (SENAT) as an Associate Advisor, helping to shape and influence the team through a time of change. As an Associate Advisor, you will report directly into the Service Manager. You will be pivotal in the design and impact of service delivery, where you will lead and guide a team of Advisory Teachers and Special Needs Officers (SNO). The team provides advice and guidance to support children with special educational needs (SEN), working closely with families, early years providers, schools, colleges, and external agencies. This includes Educational Psychology Services, Health Services, and Social Care. You will plan, deliver, and manage appropriate training and consultancy, in relation to meeting the needs of learners with SEN, with a specific focus on EHC Needs Assessment and EHCPs (Education, Health, and Care Plan).
Responsibilities
* Ensuring effective support is provided to schools to enable best inclusive practice for children with special educational needs.
* Delivering on planned and coordinated support for identified children with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities).
* Providing guidance and advice around statutory and LA policies, modelling best practice.
* Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of Education Legislation, the SEND Code of Practice, and Ofsted Inspection Framework.
* Assisting school staff in implementing the Annual Review process for pupils with EHCPs.
* Using data and soft intelligence to assess and support the team to optimise service delivery, the offer to schools, and SENAT.
About You
We are looking for someone who can engage and motivate their team with integrity and openness, who will actively seek out partnership working with a drive to develop strong relationships in all areas of work. You will have experience of teaching, SEND, and EHCPs, with strong organisational and leadership skills. You will need strong personal values and emotional resilience due to the nature of this role. If you can challenge existing practice, influence others, find innovative solutions, and understand the skills in the developmental and learning needs of children, we would love to hear from you.
Key Skills / Qualifications
* Ability to communicate effectively: to persuade, negotiate and influence within or outside the organisation.
* Strong leadership skills including integrity and openness, with the ability to engage with and motivate a team.
* Excellent organisational, interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
* Ability to work collaboratively with the SEN Assessment Team, settings, partner agencies and parents.
* Good knowledge of SEND including understanding of national and curriculum developments in education and ability to advise on EHCPs.
* Provide high quality and efficient support for pupils, parents and staff in maintained schools.
* Anticipate problems, plan solutions and make informed decisions.
* Interpret the statutory regulations and Special Educational Needs Code of Practice to advise SEND Officers and parents how they relate to individual pupils.
* Ability to use expertise for legal processes such as Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal.
* Commitment to continuous professional development.
* Creative, innovative and forward thinking.
* Commitment to driving excellence within the SEN Assessment Team as an integral part of the Children, Young People and Learning (CYPL) Directorate.
* Contribute to the development and implementation of CYPL policies and working practices.
* Ability to collaborate and work with others across multi-agency teams.
* Educated to degree level with QTS.
* Specialist SEN qualification or equivalent experience.
* Further qualifications and/or experience in an advisory role.
* Recent successful teaching experience.
* Experience of managing and leading a team.
* Experience of pursuing individual learning targets and monitoring progress for pupils with EHCPs.
* Experience of working with children with SEND.
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