Job Title: EHC (Education, Health and Care) Coordinator for School Age Statutory SEND team
Purpose of the Job
The Education, Health and Care (EHC) assessment and review team are responsible for delivering high quality casework in line with the statutory requirements in the SEND Code of Practice 2015 and Children and Families Act 2014. Statutory responsibilities include coordinating multi-agency assessments of education, health and care and ensuring that Education, Health and Care Plans are up to date and reflect the needs of the child and the provision they require.
The post-holder will coordinate statutory EHC needs assessments and plan processes. EHC coordinators will be aligned to one of several functional teams supporting either assessment processes, review processes or resolution and reconciliation processes. The role delivers casework that coordinates professionals across education, health and care as well as the family, to deliver EHC assessments, plans and reviews to time and high quality, with a focus on improving outcomes for children and adolescent people.
Main Areas of Responsibility
The post holders main areas of responsibility will include:
- Develop and secure the highest standards of achievement and inclusion for children and adolescent people with SEN through effective casework within the policy and budget framework, ensuring a focus on preparing for adulthood from the earliest ages.
- Take responsibility for the preparation of information for parents, children, adolescent people and schools, which provides the right information at the appropriate time, in a simple to use way, which engages partners in understanding what our responsibility is to children, families and schools.
- Manage and process statutory casework within legal and internal timelines
- To work collaboratively with professionals across education, health and care services to ensure effective case management, integrated working practice and successful outcomes for children.
- To participate in resource decisions, taking the lead where appropriate, for example decision making processes relating to whether assessment or plans are written, or whether specialist provision is agreed, ensuring that resource decisions are in line with local authority policies, procedures and eligibility criteria. This could include chairing or attending panel meetings.
- To participate, as required, in a range of meetings with other professionals and parents/carers in relation to individual children with complex needs, including representing Children's Services at annual review, chairing reviews, attending and chairing multi-agency meetings as appropriate.
- Contribute to the development of policy, procedures and provision for children with SEN children's needs, which includes maintaining an up to date knowledge relating to SEN casework, changes to national legislation and departmental policies, and supporting induction/training and support to all team members.
- To input and maintain accurate and comprehensive database records as required, and participate in the Local Authority's systems for monitoring and quality assurance for children and adolescent people known to the EHC assessment and review team.
- Line manager responsibility over the performance of team members to enable the successful delivery of work.
The duties and responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present. The post holder is expected to accept any reasonable alterations that may from time to time be necessary.
The ideal post holder will demonstrate:
- Educated to a minimum of A level standard or equivalent
- Additional experience reflecting knowledge of SEND
- Previous experience of working within complex systems and processes, preferably in a children's services or education setting
- Previous experience of working with families or adolescent people.
- Exceptional skill in building and maintaining relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders
- Knowledge of law and procedures governing statutory assessment including the Children and Families Act 2014, SEN Code of Practice 2014 and the Equalities Act 2010
- Excellent organisation skills including an ability to work unsupervised, systematically and an ability to manage constraints and conflicting demands and work to tight deadlines
- Excellent customer service skills using verbal and written communication methods
- Excellent IT skills including the ability to compile reports, analyse data and ensure the respective database is used to plan and monitor to meet statutory deadlines.
- For Post 14 roles specifically - Experience of working in a multi-agency environment and partnership working, particularly with Adult Social Care Services and Vocational Pathways.
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