About the role
We are looking to appoint an Early Years SEND Advisor to provide support to the Early Years SEND team on a fixed term basis until 31 August 2024.
The Early Years SEND team promotes high quality inclusive practice across the Early Years sector. The team provides a comprehensive SEND offer and supports childcare providers in Cambridgeshire to work with children with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities.
We are a small, friendly team and your role would be to support the development of Early Years settings to increase their capacity to provide inclusive and appropriate education for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. (SEND).
This is an exciting opportunity to work effectively in collaboration with all agencies involved in services for early years and childcare, children and families to support effective SEND practice and promote and support EY practitioners in partnership working, where a multiagency approach is required for a child and family.
For more details, please see the job description and person specification attached. If you have any questions or would like to chat about the role, please contact the Early Years SEND team: ey.send@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
The closing date for applications is the 19th March 2023 and interviews are scheduled for 29th March 2023.
What will you be doing?
Liaising with Early Support and the SEND Business Coordinator, you will contribute to the administration and decision making of the Early Support Pathway and SEN Inclusion funding (SENIF), monitoring and making recommendations on how to use the funding in the best way to support the child.
This will include support to Early Years Settings and may include visits.
About you
The successful candidate will have experience and skills working with children and in the early years with SEND. You will have excellent interpersonal skills combined with the ability to represent the service in a positive and professional manner, including communicating with a wide range of internal and external customers. You will ideally have good working knowledge of Windows and Microsoft packages (although training can be provided).
This role would suit someone who is working within the early years sector with experience of meeting the needs of children with special educational needs and disabilities.
Please evidence on your supporting statement how you meet the essential criteria of the person specification.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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