SEND Senior Commissioner

We are working with a Gloucestershire County Council on a Senior Commissioning role within SEND services. This is to lead on project work within specialist placement and commissioning.

Location: Gloucestershire County Council

Set-up: Hybrid – ideally 1 days per week on-site (TBC)

Rate: £450/day via umbrella, inside IR35

Duration: Initial 6-month sign-off, likely extension

Hours: 3 days – Wednesday to Friday

Responsibilities include:

• To lead on the design, development and delivery of a range of service workstreams for families or children and young people which will secure good outcomes for all Gloucestershire residents and ensure services provide excellent value for money
• Workstreams will be driven by both local priorities and national policy reforms through the DfE SEND and Alternative Provision Change Programme. Specifically, to review Gloucestershire’s Universal banding system and maintain special school place planning

Requirements:

• To work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders and schools to successfully deliver a reviewed Universal banding system
• To ensure maintained special schools in the county have commissioning briefs appropriate to their current population, the needs of the county for 2025 and onwards
• Work with the Head of SEND, Specialist Commissioner, schools; finance and wider partnership stakeholders
• Review the financial impact of changing from the resource allocation model to the Universal banding system, and project forward the financial impact
• Review current commissioning briefs
• Determine current special school place population needs

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