Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and nearly over 1000+ reviews have an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced SEN CASE Officer to work in Westminster, Greater London.
Pay Rate: £20.99 per hour
Hybrid model: Two days a week in an office in Middlesbrough and 3 days at home, however you may be required to travel to educational settings to attend meetings with professionals and families.
About the Team:
The SEND Assessment and Review Team in Middlesbrough has statutory responsibility for completing EHC Needs Assessments and overseeing Annual Reviews for the existing 2000 EHC Plans for children and young people who live in Middlesbrough
Key Responsibilities of the SEN Case Officer:
- To act as named person to whom parents, children, young people, Adult Services and their carers can relate whilst the above procedures are being completed.
- To attend meetings/case conferences, as appropriate, in order to resolve conflicts of opinion between all parties including service users.
- To prepare Education, Health and Care Plans, both in their proposed and substantive form using person centred approaches and the “Asset Model” approach, ensuring parents, children and young people, wherever possible, sit at the heart of the process, resolving any outstanding issues as required.
- To manage a caseload of cases.
- To deal with the day to day queries that arise from case work.
- To assist, where necessary, in the preparation of the Local Authority’s case to be made before the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal.
- To support the attendance at meetings with Judicial Reviews and Coroner’s Court and other Professionals to ensure that there is a multi-agency approach to addressing pupils’ needs, ensuring person centred approaches are used at all times.
- To oversee the arrangements for the annual review of all Education, Health, Care and LDD Reviews.
Applicant Requirements of the SEN Case Officer:
- Qualifications: N/A.
- Experience: 1+ year of experience working within a SEN Case Officer/similar. Must be familiary with SEND and EHCP processes and systems.
- Compliance: Proof of ability to work and live in the UK. Current DBS and 2 x references.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced candidates who meet these requirements for this SEN Case Officer role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work.
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