Early Years SEND Inclusion Advisor
| Posting date: | 03 February 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 March 2025 |
| Location: | leicestershire, LE3 8RF |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4565 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield LE3 8RF
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Leadership 1-2 teacher £49.781 -£51.027 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Working Hours: 22.4 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 16th February 2025
Interview Date(s): 20th February 2025
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Early Years, Inclusion and Childcare Service as an Early Years SEND Inclusion Advisor
About the Role
The post will allow you the opportunity to join and work with a highly skilled, enthusiastic team. We work with children from birth to school entry who have identified additional needs. You will ensure children have the right support at the right time. Part of your role is to ensure children access the highest quality inclusive provision in their local mainstream provision. You will have the opportunity to work in partnership with other services in the department including health to ensure children reach their full potential.
The service supports children who are at risk of exclusion and have a successful relationship with schools and settings ensuring children maintain their placements. We also support our youngest children through our Portage Practitioners.
- Advise and support parents and professionals in meeting the special educational needs of early years children (birth to reception age).
- Provide advice, support and guidance to private, voluntary independent providers so that they can identify any additional needs of children and develop appropriate initiatives to meet their needs.
- Develop high quality inclusive provision across the childcare sector
- Give strategies to providers so that they can embed the principles of the SEND code of practice into their practice
- Offer guidance and support to the settings across the 0-5 sector to ensure children at risk of exclusion of a result of their SEND needs are supported in their provision
- To work collaboratively with other internal local authority and external partners and providers to improve outcomes for children with SEND
- Work closely with children and families and be able to travel to children both in their homes and in early years provision.
If you are passionate about supporting our youngest children with additional needs this is the perfect job for you.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- To be qualified teacher status with evidence of further training leading to specialist qualification in working with SEND and leadership and management experience in early years or SEND
- To have excellent early years practice and experience of working with early years SEND children and families and other agencies to support children with SEND and to offer guidance and support to the settings across the 0-5 sector to ensure children at risk of exclusion of a result of their SEND needs are supported in their provision
- To champion the needs of children, promoting equality and inclusion, ensuring that children and their families can access high quality early education and childcare by removing barriers of access to early education.
- To have experience of making home visits, offering advisory support to parents and carers and providing a teaching programme appropriate to the child’s abilities and needs. This support may include delivering a teaching programme.
- To provide advice and support to facilitate the smooth transition of a child between settings and school and to promote equality and inclusive practice by removing barriers of access to early education and childcare and to assist settings in the monitoring of special educational needs policy and provision.
- To provide advice on the identification and assessment of individual children with special educational needs. Supporting the provider to use the graduated approach to assess, plan, do review. Signposting and facilitate contact with other appropriate services.
- To develop high quality materials for the childcare sector and partners to use to develop their practice using self-serve web-based materials.
Our main aim is to improve outcomes for children of Leicestershire. If you are successful, you will be supported by the Extended Leadership team to be creative and solution focused as well as having access to a variety of professional development opportunities. People who work in our service say that we are a caring, approachable, friendly service who work well together and with other professionals. Staff are made to feel valued and that they are making a difference.
As a Children and Family department we are committed to our vision of becoming a trauma informed responsive department. We will strive to create a safe, compassionate environment demonstrated through relationships based on trust, respect, hope and empathy. We will achieve this through a spirit of curiosity, by nurturing connections through relationships, making a deliberate effort to know and understand people.
We have an Inclusion and Diversity working party that meets regularly, and the local authority has other supportive groups where you will have the opportunity to learn and connect with others.
We operate on a fully inclusive employment policy and therefore welcome without exceptions candidates who have protected characteristics. Our one prerequisite is that you are the best at what you do.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Ruth Melluish - Team Manager
Email: Ruth.melluish@leics.gov.uk
We look forward to receiving and reading your application form
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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