Job Role: SEND Team Manager
Job Location: Remote Working
12-month ongoing contract
Job Overview
* To manage a team to ensure the effective delivery of high- quality practice, which delivers positive outcomes for vulnerable children.
* The nature of management includes high quality supervision to team members which strengthens practice and ensures the team are supported to deliver consistency in accordance with legislation and good practice models.
* To lead the co-ordination and delivery of SEND statutory processes for BCP, ensuring compliance with regulations; tactical and strategic application of the regulations in order to secure outcomes compatible with the legal guidance and the council’s performance targets; robust decision making; rigorous analysis and synthesis of written information.
Key Responsibilities
* Working under the direction of the Head of SEND Assessment and Review and working collaboratively with other managers within the service, ensuring that statutory assessment processes, and decisions on Education, Health and Care Plans and placement of children with Education, Health and Care Plans support and compliment policy and support and promote inclusive education in BCP.
* In the oversight and leadership of the EHC assessment process, apply rigorous decision making so that unnecessary EHC assessments are avoided. Through methodical planning and monitoring of casework, identify predictable risks to the potential to complete statutory processes on time.
* Ensure that the statutory Annual Review process is effectively co-ordinated and monitored, within statutory timelines and in partnership with provider schools, settings and organisations.
Specific Qualifications and Experience
* Appropriate professional qualification (law/public administration/education/social care/health)
* Management qualification or commitment to undertake management training
* Evidence of significant and extensive SEND experience
* Experience of supervising staff
* Participation in Recruitment and Selection of all staff
* Degree Level or equivalent qualification
* Decision making within statutory frameworks, with financial implications and where decisions are subject to legal challenge.
Right to work requirements
* Passport
* BRP
* Share code