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PT SEND Senior Case Manager
| Posting date: | 18 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £311.97 to £311.97 per day |
| Additional salary information: | per day PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 July 2024 |
| Location: | REIGATE, RH2 8EF |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Surrey 95091 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Interim PT SEND Senior Case Manager
Reference no: Surrey 95091
Pay Rate: £311.97 per day PAYE
18 Monday – Friday, (tbc)
This opening assignment is for 4 months
City: REIGATE
Manage a team of area SEND case officers to ensure effective delivery of statutory SEN services, ensuring the effective and efficient use of resources in consultation with the SEND Area Team Manager. Hold a caseload working with children, young people, parents and carers, educational providers and partner agencies so that the statutory duties and responsibilities as set out in DFE guidance and Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) 2014 legislation are implemented and completed accordingly.
Supervise an area based SEN case worker team ensuring service delivery meets agreed performance targets and is in accordance with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) 2014 legislation and DFE requirements. Support the Area SEN manager and Area Lead for Psychology and Assessment with the deployment of resources (Individual Pupil Support budget, School Agency placements and associated budget, human resources and buildings) using monitoring.
Key responsibilities:
Identify opportunities and risks associated with the service and escalate / report to management.
May undertake the role of expert practice lead, managing highly complex cases and leading consistency and standards of practice in a defined geographical area.
Conduct assessments in complex or high risk circumstances ensuring appropriate actions are taken in response to identified safeguarding/wellbeing issues to increase the protection of vulnerable people.
Contribute towards developing professional policy, standards and procedure and / or developing and implementing team plans and monitoring and reviewing of services to enhance quality of service.
Manage the planning and delivery of services and caseload or projects for own area involving some specialist knowledge or assessment.
Contribute to service plans and plan staff resources to maintain operational delivery of services. Finance/Resource Management
Assist with budget/resource/funding management in accordance with the council policies and procedures.
Liaise, communicate and build relationships with other internal departments, partner organisations, agencies and/or contractors to share knowledge or best practice and ensure quality, integrated service delivery.
Work in partnership with service users, their families/carers.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
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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.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles
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:
and/or appropriate support for service users. • Relevant professional qualification and relevant registration where required and experience, or considerable experience of working within the service area.
Knowledge:
High level working knowledge of relevant legislation and procedural frameworks and practice standards
Detailed knowledge of special educational needs legislative framework and government policy and initiatives.
Understanding of the principles of confidentiality and information governance and how these apply to social care.
Experience:
Demonstrable experience in successful recruiting, managing, coaching and developing of staff.
Experience of SEN casework and statutory processes
Proven track record of managing a range of responsibilities and co-ordinating service delivery in a multi-disciplinary environment.
Skills & Abilities:
Proven written and oral communication and interpersonal skills with good negotiation and influencing skills, and the ability to maintain effective working relationships at all levels.
High level problem solving skills with the capacity to devise and implement innovative solutions.
Excellent advocacy, time management and organisation skills.
Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to develop effective and positive collaborative working relationships with a range of colleagues, and members of the public.
Ability to communicate with compassion and authority in challenging situations and with resistant individuals, be able to effectively engage with people in complex situations both short-term and building relationships over time
Able to plan and carry out specialist assessments and deliver and oversee programmes or packages of care and support
Competent in a range of IT tools including MS Office and database management systems
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Job Ref: Surrey 95091
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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