About the role
The joint Cambridgeshire and Peterborough SENDIASS is a new service following the merger of each authority’s SENDIAS service last year. As a result of the retirement of the manager we are looking for someone with the drive and skills needed to ensure that this small close-knit team continues to ‘punch well above its weight’ as a former SEND Director noted. The service exceeds many of the national benchmarks as well as being active on regional and national levels.
You will be responsible for ensuring the service:
- SEND Advisers continue to deliver high quality information, advice, and support to parents, carers, children and young people.
- continues to contribute and act as a critical friend to Cambridgeshire’s and Peterborough’s strategic SEND development and operational delivery of support services.
- remains active in providing clear feedback to each authority on SEND issues and concerns experienced by the parents, carers, and young people it supports.
- maintains its regional and national voice.
The service has delivered an improving offer of information, advice, and support since it merged, and you will be responsible for continuing this process. We comfortably meet national minimum standards but with the support of a well-established Stakeholder Steering group you will be responsible for continuing the process of improvement and service accountability.
Given the acknowledged pressures on the SEND system, we are looking for an experienced and positive professional who can motivate staff and instil confidence in service-users and partner agencies. You will have detailed knowledge of SEND legislation and experience of mediation and engagement with schools and other service providers in education, health and social care settings.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Bob Wilson 0771 725 8100
What will you be doing?
Ensuring the service continues to provide a high quality Information, Advice and Support (IAS) service that is confidential and impartial and meets the national minimum standards.
Ensure the services staff continue to provide a consistently high quality IAS across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough about education, health, social care and voluntary sector provision/
Ensure up to date and high quality management information is produced to report to the services commissioners and help with the effective management of the service.
Contribute to strategic development across relevant areas promoting collaborative working
and maintain ongoing dialogue with statutory and voluntary organisations across
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough using information gained from parents, carers, young people and children.
Ensure the service provides relevant SEND related information to service users and practitioners in education, health, social care and the voluntary sector.
About you
You will need to be passionate about supporting parents, carers, young people and children to access the correct provision and ensure their views and needs are recognised and shape the support they receive.
Self motivation and motivating those around you is a key requirement while at the same time continually re-prioritising your own work load based on constantly changing needs and calls on your time.
You will need to able to keep up to date on national and local changes to SEND to ensure the IAS provided by the service and your own contributions to SEND policy and practice with partner organisations is based on the latest legal position.
You will need the ability to work both at strategic levels while at the same time ensuring you are aware of developments and trends at service user level.
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.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
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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