SEND Case Officer
| Posting date: | 19 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £187.18 per day |
| Additional salary information: | per day PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2024 |
| Location: | REIGATE, RH2 8EF |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Surrey TCL 92313 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Interim SEND Case Officer
Reference no: Surrey TCL 92313
Pay Rate: £187.18 per day PAYE
35-37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: REIGATE
The role holder is responsble for development and maintenance of Education Health and Care Plans from initial application and assessment to the annual review process. Will work with families of children with Special Needs and Disability in a highly person centred retational approach, and coordinate service provision across education, health and care to ensure holistic delivery plan for individual child and family.
Work collaboratively with families, schools and other key partners agencies for individual children and young people with SEND to ensure children and young people are educated and are in receipt of appropriate provision that is inline wiht their holistic needs. Work closely with and facilitate engagement with educational settings and relevant practitioners to support, advise and monitor the local offer and to work with schools on individual cases as needed. Plan production and the experience of families, carers, children and young people should be high quality. Caseworkers should take a reflective approach to their practice in order to drive improvement. The use of data and feedback by the role holder should also drive quality improvements. Role holders are part of a graduated response and continum of need and should work with a team around the child approach. Timeliness of planning, quality of assessments and plans and impact of annual reviews will be important measures of success
Key Responsibilities
Identify opportunities and risks associated with the service and escalate / report to management. Assess and manage risk associated with assigned cases/service delivery.
Contribute to the regular monitoring and review of services established to facilitate service improvement.
Provide specialist/professional advice and recommendations within defined policy and procedures to support informed decision making.
Undertake care planning and manage complex cases and / or take a lead on development and project work, assisting in development and improvement of services and practice in own area.
Make recommendations for the provision of services in line with the budget determined according to assessment of needs, and advises less experienced staff on budget and costs of services.
Liaise, communicate and build relationships with other internal departments, partner organisations, agencies and/or contractors on operational issues to share knowledge or best practice and deliver service in partnership.
Work in partnership with service users, their families/carers.
Allocate work and monitor the standard of team performance and ensure resolution of any issues, and / or may take on a coordinating and supervisory role with more junior staff as directed by their manager.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Educated to A level minimum / equivalent training / experience of SEN knowledge and experience, namely Code of Practice and Children and Families Act 14.
Knowledge:
Good knowledge of Surrey’s SEND policy and practice, national guidance and legislation.
Good knowledge of SCC’s Local Offer and that of its mainstream and special schools or a willingness to acquire such knowledge.
Good knowledge of educational settings and a willingness to develop this across the 0-25 age range.
Knowledge of evidence based effective intervention and able to articulate well within report writing
Experience:
Demonstrable experience of working in a collaborative way with children/young people and parents to ensure families views are heard and applied.
Significant experience of working with vulnerable children/young people, especially those with SEND
Skills & Abilities:
Excellent team working skills
Ability to take ownership for writing and maintaining the EHC, and to present to partnership resource allocation forum as and when required.
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Job Ref: Surrey TCL 92313
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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