About the role
This is an exciting time for SEND in Cambridgeshire with a number of key transformation initiatives being implemented in accordance with our SEND Strategy.
We are seeking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated professional who has the passion, knowledge and ability to lead our statutory assessment team in Cambridgeshire. This role oversees all assessment and placement activity relating to the statutory education health and care process for all of our children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. This role is an extremely important part of our SEND leadership team, and will be instrumental in the implementation of some of our key elements of our exciting transformation work.
If you would like to have an informal conversation about this role, please contact:
Kirsten Branigan – Interim Head of SEND on Kirsten.branigan@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Or
Fran Cox – Assistant Director on fran.cox@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
The role is advertised at P4 Grade, and a market supplement would be considered for exceptional candidates.
Interviews will be held week beginning 16 October 2023
What will you be doing?
You will lead on the co-ordination and delivery of SEND statutory processes ensuring we comply with all relevant legislation and regulations. You will model and ensure robust, child focused decision making, and ensure that children, young people and their families are at the heart of everything we do through this service.
You will lead by example a team of highly trained, committed professionals and ensure effective delivery of high-quality practice. This will include the line management of two deputies, and oversight of the Additional Needs Team.
You will promote in all you do, the ethos of co-production and multiagency working across all sectors that interface with the statutory processes including health and social care. You will play a lead role alongside the Head of SEND in the partnership working with our parent carer forum.
About you
You will be a highly skilled, experienced SEND professional who has had experience leading the statutory assessment function within a local authority setting successfully. You will be a natural leader with the ability to make positive relationships quickly with both internal and external colleagues. You will be confident in your decision making against the SEND Code of Practice (2015) and have experience of working within the Tribunal framework. You will have evidenced experience of resilience within a demanding workspace and be able to show examples of occasions where you have successfully changed processes to improve the working environment for a team.
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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