SEN Inclusion Case Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 24 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 24 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Cwmni: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 5563 |
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Children and Families Department
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £34,350 - £37,950 per annum
Working Hours: 37 Hours
Contract Type: Fixed term / Secondment
Closing Date: 10th July 2025
Interview Date(s): 31st July 2025
About the Role,
The SEN Inclusion case worker role is to ensure that all relevant and appropriate interventions have been put in place to enable Children and Young People (CYP) who require SEN support to achieve their expected learning outcomes.
To liaise effectively with parents and young people, schools, and other services to ensure appropriate interventions are in place, and to quality assure the effectiveness of the graduated response within schools and to raise awareness of, and signpost to, relevant local authority guidance.
The role involves:
- Meeting with families and schools to discuss the effectiveness of the SEN Support Plan and opportunities for any additional support, working alongside the Inclusion service, developing innovative and creative solutions to enable the child or young person to achieve their potential. The role involves proactively working with families, schools and agencies to ensure that children and young people are appropriately supported with SEN support.
- Working directly with families, schools and other agencies to determine whether an EHCP needs assessment request is appropriate and to assist with the collation of evidence towards the request.
- Considering cases at Request to Assess meetings and to complete any follow-up required to fully inform a decision.
- Under the guidance of the SEND Officer to consider, interpret and analyse requests for Education Health and Care needs assessment in line with legislation and local policy to ensure robust and consistent decisions are made.
- Providing advice to parents, schools and other agencies about SEN Assessment, EHCP processes, Annual Review and LA SEN Policy.
- Promoting Inclusion in all education settings and work in partnership with all agencies to ensure that children and young people with special educational needs are effectively safeguarded, and to take action to refer to appropriate services when necessary.
- Having a thorough understanding of and commitment to personalisation and person-centred approaches and a focus to preparing for adulthood
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
Please refer to the 7 point criteria giving examples of how you meet the criteria below
- NVQ Level 4 qualification in relevant subject or demonstrable experience within a special needs context or Local Authority.
- Evidence of ability to extract relevant information from a range of data/ variety of sources, and to present in different formats as appropriate.
- The ability to present information in clear written form for a variety of audiences and respond to changing demands.
- The ability to work in partnership with parents and staff from other agencies and enter dialogue and negotiation to ensure positive outcomes for children and young people with SEND.
- To be highly motivated, flexible, and able to use initiative, dependable and able to meet deadlines when under pressure.
- The ability to inspire confidence in the public and colleagues and be committed to providing high quality public service.
- To be able to work on own initiative and as part of a team and have a strong working knowledge of the SEN Code of Practice.
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:
Frances Shelbourne- Pathway Manager- Inclusion service
Telephone: 0116 305 0716
Email: Frances.shelbourne@leics.gov.uk
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.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.
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