Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Practice Supervisor
| Posting date: | 12 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £45,718 to £50,788 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 July 2025 |
| Location: | Boston, Lincolnshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | Lincolnshire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Are you passionate about ensuring children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) are provided with high-quality education within their local community? The SEND Team are seeking a dedicated Practice Supervisor to oversee, manage and coordinate the Boston South Holland SEND Team.
About the Role
The Practice Supervisor role is an integral component for the SEND Team ensuring the needs to the locality area are met. The successful candidate will provide supervision of the caseworkers, ensuring standards are met and the team(s) runs efficiently and effectively. This role will cover the Boston and South Holland locality area along with providing support to other locality area SEND Teams as required.
The successful candidate will also contribute to the direction and development of the SEND strategy and planning, taking into account local and national policy and initiatives.
About the Team
Candidates will need to have extensive experience of working within the statutory framework of Special Educational Needs and Disability, across partners, with families and children/young people. Evidence of skills required to support a team of caseworkers and assistant caseworkers is essential. The team provide the production, oversight and administration of Education Health and Care assessments and Education Health and Care Plans. The team also ensures all statutory duties are met and that families and children/young people receive a high standard of service to ensure all partners are delivering the legally required support to meet the young persons' specials educational needs.
About You
Applications are encouraged from candidates with and without experience of being in a Practice Supervisor role. You will be required to lead, ensuring high quality of services are maintained. If you are solution focused, passionate about improving services for children and young people with SEND, have excellent communication skills and have a passion for strong customer service, then we would welcome your application.
In addition, the successful candidate will:
Hold a full professional qualification with extensive relevant post qualification experience. Or the knowledge and skills acquired from a degree at graduate/post graduate level, teaching qualification or equivalent, and extensive post-qualification experience in a relevant children's service environment.
Have significant experience of working with families, children and young people with complex SEN needs.
Demonstrate a high level of organisational skills and the ability to prioritise high demand, and excellent communication skills within the context of statutory SEND provision.
About Our Offer
Along with a competitive salary we are offering:
A Contributory pension
Comprehensive benefits package including excellent discount schemes and cycle to work
Flexible working policies
Career progression opportunities
A generous annual leave entitlement plus the option to buy more
Further details about the benefits of working for Lincolnshire County Council are available here: Rewards and benefits – Lincolnshire County Council
For more information on this role please contact Alison Charity, SEND Team Manager, alison.charity@lincolnshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion.
Applications close 6th July, interviews are due to take place 24th and 25th July.
Please be advised that this position may be subject to a criminal record check.
All candidates are advised to read the attached job information pack prior to making an application.
On occasion we receive significantly more applications than expected for some vacancies and under such circumstances we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of the advertisement. We therefore strongly advise you to apply for the role promptly to avoid disappointment should the closing date be brought forward.
We operate a talent pool scheme whereby candidates who are not successful on this occasion may be considered for a period of up to 3 months for equal positions.
Lincolnshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
A Smarter Working Employer
We have embraced new ways of working and hybrid working will be a feature of this role. You will be given a nominated contractual work base and you will be required to commute to this work base when necessary. Working arrangements regarding hybrid working will be discussed as part of the appointment process.
Our technology platform and equipment is very good enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We require that you have in place good connectivity, and we will discuss during the recruitment process if support with this is needed.
Fluency Duty
In accordance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 (Fluency Duty), the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.
About the Role
The Practice Supervisor role is an integral component for the SEND Team ensuring the needs to the locality area are met. The successful candidate will provide supervision of the caseworkers, ensuring standards are met and the team(s) runs efficiently and effectively. This role will cover the Boston and South Holland locality area along with providing support to other locality area SEND Teams as required.
The successful candidate will also contribute to the direction and development of the SEND strategy and planning, taking into account local and national policy and initiatives.
About the Team
Candidates will need to have extensive experience of working within the statutory framework of Special Educational Needs and Disability, across partners, with families and children/young people. Evidence of skills required to support a team of caseworkers and assistant caseworkers is essential. The team provide the production, oversight and administration of Education Health and Care assessments and Education Health and Care Plans. The team also ensures all statutory duties are met and that families and children/young people receive a high standard of service to ensure all partners are delivering the legally required support to meet the young persons' specials educational needs.
About You
Applications are encouraged from candidates with and without experience of being in a Practice Supervisor role. You will be required to lead, ensuring high quality of services are maintained. If you are solution focused, passionate about improving services for children and young people with SEND, have excellent communication skills and have a passion for strong customer service, then we would welcome your application.
In addition, the successful candidate will:
Hold a full professional qualification with extensive relevant post qualification experience. Or the knowledge and skills acquired from a degree at graduate/post graduate level, teaching qualification or equivalent, and extensive post-qualification experience in a relevant children's service environment.
Have significant experience of working with families, children and young people with complex SEN needs.
Demonstrate a high level of organisational skills and the ability to prioritise high demand, and excellent communication skills within the context of statutory SEND provision.
About Our Offer
Along with a competitive salary we are offering:
A Contributory pension
Comprehensive benefits package including excellent discount schemes and cycle to work
Flexible working policies
Career progression opportunities
A generous annual leave entitlement plus the option to buy more
Further details about the benefits of working for Lincolnshire County Council are available here: Rewards and benefits – Lincolnshire County Council
For more information on this role please contact Alison Charity, SEND Team Manager, alison.charity@lincolnshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion.
Applications close 6th July, interviews are due to take place 24th and 25th July.
Please be advised that this position may be subject to a criminal record check.
All candidates are advised to read the attached job information pack prior to making an application.
On occasion we receive significantly more applications than expected for some vacancies and under such circumstances we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of the advertisement. We therefore strongly advise you to apply for the role promptly to avoid disappointment should the closing date be brought forward.
We operate a talent pool scheme whereby candidates who are not successful on this occasion may be considered for a period of up to 3 months for equal positions.
Lincolnshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
A Smarter Working Employer
We have embraced new ways of working and hybrid working will be a feature of this role. You will be given a nominated contractual work base and you will be required to commute to this work base when necessary. Working arrangements regarding hybrid working will be discussed as part of the appointment process.
Our technology platform and equipment is very good enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We require that you have in place good connectivity, and we will discuss during the recruitment process if support with this is needed.
Fluency Duty
In accordance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 (Fluency Duty), the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.
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About Disability Confident
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