SEND Transport Entitlement Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Awst 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £31,537.00 i £33,699.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £31537.00 - £33699.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 24 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Trowbridge, BA14 8JN |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | F0041-5360 |
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The Transport Entitlement Officer will work across SEN boundaries to ensure that childrens travel is provided in the most effective and cost efficient manner. Specific duties and responsibilities include To provide guidance on entitlement and interpret changes to law on all aspects of the SEND transport policy to colleagues within the authority, parents, headteachers and other stakeholders. To manage the entitlement and make day to day decisions about SEND transport provision for all pupils with SENDs. This includes the management of the post 16transport scheme and implementing and overseeing the procedures for the collection of income. To work closely with the Principal Officer, SEND Transport in PTU to provide transport services in the most cost effective manner in order to contribute to ongoing corporate savings. To make day to day operational decisions about any necessary changes to arrangements to respond to incidents and to health and safety issues and to monitor the effects on the budget. To undertake risk assessments for all new young people requiring transport to make decisions about allocation of individual passenger assistants (escorts) for pupils with SENs and to review the arrangements as necessary. This includes the implementation of individual health care plans to ensure that pupils with complex medical needs as transported as safely as possible. To provide accurate information regarding individual children and young peoples needs to ensure that the most appropriate transport is provided and to liaise with schools & parents about this, as appropriate. This includes making decisions about the type of transport appropriate for the needs of the pupil. To co-ordinate and monitor the Independent Travel Training Schemes in place in order to increase the numbers of young people accessing mainstream transport services and to secure long term savings to the budget. To carry out all tasks and responsibilities in accordance with legal requirements across education, including identifying if a vulnerable child or young person may be at risk. To contribute to the development of the SEND service, to respond to operational needs by initiating, developing and implementing innovative solutions.