About the role
The 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 to recruit someone to ensure 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 a regional and national level. The new manager will be responsible for ensuring that the service:-
- SEND Advisers continue to deliver high quality information, advice, and support.
- Continues to contribute and act as a critical friend to Cambridgeshire’s and Peterborough’s strategic SEND development and operational services.
- Remains active in feeding back to each authority the SEND issues of importance to the parents, carers, and young people it supports.
- Maintains its regional and national voice.
The service has continued to deliver an improving offer of information, advice and support since it merged, and the new manager will be responsible for continuing this process with the support of the service's stakeholder steering group.
Given the acknowledged problems in the SEND system, you will need to be a positive and experienced manager with the ability to motivate staff and work collaboratively across a wide range of voluntary, specialist and statutory services. You will need to be a strong leader with the confidence when necessary to be a critical friend to education, health, and social care leaders in ensuring that children, young people and families have access to the support they are legally entitled to.
For more detailed information please contact Alan Sapsford, email - alan.sapsford@gmail.com, mobile 07902 219376.
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 firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
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