SEN Casework Officer
| Posting date: | 27 March 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 April 2025 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG8 3JP |
| Company: | Nottingham City Council |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 4917 |
Summary
Contract Type: 1 x permanent contract, 2 x 12 month fixed term contracts
Working Hours: 37
Worker Type: Hybrid (office, educational bases and home) - candidates must be able to undertake weekly work in Nottingham.
Salary: Starting Salary is £44,711 (Level one) rising to £47,754 (Level four) ‘pro rata for part-time’
Location: Woolsthorpe Depot, Bilborough, Nottingham, NG8 3JP
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.
About the Role
The role of an SEN Casework Officers requires you to manage casework and achieve effective outcomes for children and young people with the most significant complex special educational needs within a defined geographical area. Facilitate and lead a multi-agency approach according to the Children and Families Act 2014, with partner agencies. You will have the ability to devise, implement and monitor cost effective individual alternative education programmes for those children and young people with the most complex needs. A main focus of the role is to ensure that EHCPs are of a high quality and completed and issued within statutory timeframes defined within the Children and Families Act. Candidates will also be required to represent the LA at Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunals (SENDIST) and prepare and submit the LA’s Statement of Case.
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
- Experience of meeting the statutory duties relating to SEND EHCP processes
- Have exceptional organisations skills, with the ability to process large amounts of information and manage large and complex caseloads.
- The ability to negotiate with senior leaders to ensure pupils are included within mainstream educational placements
- Be resilient and have the ability to work in high pressure situations.
- A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
You can find the job description for this post here
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact Special.Needs@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.
Closing Date: 15th April 2025
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: TBC
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