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SEND Consultant
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 Mawrth 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £38,968 i £43,976 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,968 - £43,976 pa (£48,710- £54,971 pa FTE) |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 07 Ebrill 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Reading, Berkshire |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 3 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Reading Borough Council |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | BFC0825 |
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Brighter Futures for Children
RISE (Reading Inclusion Support in Education) Team
Maternity Cover for 12 months
Part time, 29.6 hours
About the role
The SEND Consultant will be working within the already established RISE service, part of Brighter Futures for Children’s SEND team and part of the wider Education team. This SEND Consultant will lead on liaising with our local secondary schools.
The SEND Consultant (reporting to the Senior Educational Psychologist/RISE Service Lead) will provide management in the wider RISE/SEND Team. They will provide expert advice to schools, working at a school/group/individual level.
The roles and responsibilities include:
• To support the further development of high-quality inclusive practice within Reading schools so that children and young people with SEND have their needs met in an effective, timely and sustainable manner.
• Coordination and provision of advice, support and guidance relating to SEND for all schools within the postholder’s allocated group.
• Co-ordination of Reading’s SENCo Forum, to include scheduling, creating agendas for and chairing SENCo Forum meetings, ensuring that attendee lists are kept up to date.
• Work with colleagues to coordinate and deliver a calendar of induction sessions for newly appointed SENCos with related programme of training and support including input from other teams or external agencies as appropriate.
• To provide professional leadership and guidance to the Reading SENCo network and ensure that it is closely linked with SEND policy and initiatives.
• To co-ordinate and chair panel meetings for Reading’s ‘Additionally Resourced Provisions’ (ARPs),
• To work with colleagues in the school effectiveness team to quality assure the provision made for children with SEND in Reading ARPs, and to provide support and robust professional feedback where necessary.
• To provide robust and effective advice, support and challenge to school staff in identifying and supporting children with SEND to improve outcomes and ensure their understanding of the graduated support framework and the ordinarily available drawing upon the guidance set out in Reading’s ‘Ordinarily Available Provision’ document.
• Improve the quality of requests for assessment and increase the proportion of appropriate referrals. Coordinate the feedback processes following unsuccessful EHCP requests. Ensure that feedback is provided on applications including signposting to suitable training opportunities.
• Working with the RISE Data analyst and Community Engagement and Research Officer to contribute towards gathering data regarding evidence of changes in local needs, analysing gaps in local services, and assessing the impact of existing services, to help inform the commissioning cycle and supporting colleagues in commissioning in ensuring Reading’s SEND Local Offer reflects the local context and is effective in meeting needs.
• To work in close partnership with the Head of SEND, the Educational Psychology Service and the School Effectiveness Service to ensure a consistent and sustainable model of service delivery across the area among colleagues in Children’s Services, parents and carers, schools including specialist provisions attached to mainstream and special schools, local health services, specialist hospitals and centres of assessment, out of area placements for children and young people with SEND, voluntary organisations, and services in other areas,
• To actively contribute to the improvement of Reading’s ‘Ordinarily Available Provision’ and ‘Graduated Response’ documents in a manner that is consistent with:
o The aims of RISE,
o Brighter Future’s commitment to inclusive and trauma informed practice and,
o Co-produced with all key stakeholders, both internal and external.
• To take reasonable care of your own health and safety and co-operate with management, so far is necessary, to enable compliance with the company’s health and safety rules and legislative requirements.
Brighter Futures for Children is a dynamic organisation which recognises the need to respond flexibly to changing demands and circumstances. While this job description provides a summary of functions and responsibilities of the post, this may need to be adapted or adjusted to meet changing circumstances. Such changes would be commensurate with the grading of the post.
For more information about the role, please read the job description and person specification.
Inclusion and Diversity
We want Brighter Futures for Children to be a great place to work and to ensure that our children, young people and families are represented in leadership roles and positions of power. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our children, young people and families so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.
Asking for Adjustments
Brighter Futures for Children is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions.
If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please let us know.
Closing date: Monday 7 April 2025
Interview date: Friday 11 April 2025
We look forward to hearing from you!
RISE (Reading Inclusion Support in Education) Team
Maternity Cover for 12 months
Part time, 29.6 hours
About the role
The SEND Consultant will be working within the already established RISE service, part of Brighter Futures for Children’s SEND team and part of the wider Education team. This SEND Consultant will lead on liaising with our local secondary schools.
The SEND Consultant (reporting to the Senior Educational Psychologist/RISE Service Lead) will provide management in the wider RISE/SEND Team. They will provide expert advice to schools, working at a school/group/individual level.
The roles and responsibilities include:
• To support the further development of high-quality inclusive practice within Reading schools so that children and young people with SEND have their needs met in an effective, timely and sustainable manner.
• Coordination and provision of advice, support and guidance relating to SEND for all schools within the postholder’s allocated group.
• Co-ordination of Reading’s SENCo Forum, to include scheduling, creating agendas for and chairing SENCo Forum meetings, ensuring that attendee lists are kept up to date.
• Work with colleagues to coordinate and deliver a calendar of induction sessions for newly appointed SENCos with related programme of training and support including input from other teams or external agencies as appropriate.
• To provide professional leadership and guidance to the Reading SENCo network and ensure that it is closely linked with SEND policy and initiatives.
• To co-ordinate and chair panel meetings for Reading’s ‘Additionally Resourced Provisions’ (ARPs),
• To work with colleagues in the school effectiveness team to quality assure the provision made for children with SEND in Reading ARPs, and to provide support and robust professional feedback where necessary.
• To provide robust and effective advice, support and challenge to school staff in identifying and supporting children with SEND to improve outcomes and ensure their understanding of the graduated support framework and the ordinarily available drawing upon the guidance set out in Reading’s ‘Ordinarily Available Provision’ document.
• Improve the quality of requests for assessment and increase the proportion of appropriate referrals. Coordinate the feedback processes following unsuccessful EHCP requests. Ensure that feedback is provided on applications including signposting to suitable training opportunities.
• Working with the RISE Data analyst and Community Engagement and Research Officer to contribute towards gathering data regarding evidence of changes in local needs, analysing gaps in local services, and assessing the impact of existing services, to help inform the commissioning cycle and supporting colleagues in commissioning in ensuring Reading’s SEND Local Offer reflects the local context and is effective in meeting needs.
• To work in close partnership with the Head of SEND, the Educational Psychology Service and the School Effectiveness Service to ensure a consistent and sustainable model of service delivery across the area among colleagues in Children’s Services, parents and carers, schools including specialist provisions attached to mainstream and special schools, local health services, specialist hospitals and centres of assessment, out of area placements for children and young people with SEND, voluntary organisations, and services in other areas,
• To actively contribute to the improvement of Reading’s ‘Ordinarily Available Provision’ and ‘Graduated Response’ documents in a manner that is consistent with:
o The aims of RISE,
o Brighter Future’s commitment to inclusive and trauma informed practice and,
o Co-produced with all key stakeholders, both internal and external.
• To take reasonable care of your own health and safety and co-operate with management, so far is necessary, to enable compliance with the company’s health and safety rules and legislative requirements.
Brighter Futures for Children is a dynamic organisation which recognises the need to respond flexibly to changing demands and circumstances. While this job description provides a summary of functions and responsibilities of the post, this may need to be adapted or adjusted to meet changing circumstances. Such changes would be commensurate with the grading of the post.
For more information about the role, please read the job description and person specification.
Inclusion and Diversity
We want Brighter Futures for Children to be a great place to work and to ensure that our children, young people and families are represented in leadership roles and positions of power. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our children, young people and families so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.
Asking for Adjustments
Brighter Futures for Children is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions.
If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please let us know.
Closing date: Monday 7 April 2025
Interview date: Friday 11 April 2025
We look forward to hearing from you!
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