SEN Casework Officer Contract

SEN Casework Officer
Nottingham
Contract
£250 Per Day

We are currently looking for a SEN Casework Officer for a role in Nottingham. The postholder will rovide an efficient, effective and responsive Special Educational Needs Service to parents, schools and children in accordance with the aims and objectives of the Children and Adults Department.

The Majority of this role is fully remote however there will be occasions where you will be required to attend schools.

Principal duties and responsibilities:

• 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.

• Devise, implement and monitor cost effective individual alternative education programmes for those children and young people with the most complex needs.

• Work in partnership with all agencies to ensure that children and young people with special educational needs are effectively safeguarded.

• Chair the EHC Assessment decision making Panel which is a multi-agency group comprising senior officers from education, health and social care. The panel makes decisions on requests for statutory assessments.

• Ensure that EHCPs and Note in Lieu’s are of a high quality and completed and issued within statutory timeframes defined within the Children and Families Act.

• Represent the LA at Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunals (SENDIST) and prepare and submit the LA’s Statement of Case.

• Advise and negotiate with Head Teachers about their responsibilities for children with special educational needs, and to direct admissions to schools where necessary.

• Contribute to the work of the SEN Team in respect of specific projects related to special educational needs provision and policy development.

For more information please call Sam on 01616670021 or email