Send Team Manager

Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a Send Team Manager for our client a local government organisation in Bournemouth.

The successful candidate will improve the quality of life for the people by ensuring that children and young people with high-level special educational needs and disabilities have their needs assessed so that they receive the right support at the right school or college to meet those needs.

This role is initially a 6 month contract with the possibility to extend. This role is hybrid working.

Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:

• Manage a team to ensure the effective delivery of high- quality practice, which delivers positive outcomes for vulnerable children.
• The nature of management includes high quality supervision to team members which strengthens practice and ensures the team are supported to deliver consistency in accordance with legislation and good practice models.
• Lead the co-ordination and delivery of SEND statutory processes for the organisation, ensuring compliance with regulations; tactical and strategic application of the regulations in order to secure outcomes compatible with the legal guidance and the council’s performance targets; robust decision making; rigorous analysis and synthesis of written information.
• Promote local and national policies on inclusion, taking specific account of local initiatives, e.g. reduction in Out of Authority and/or independent sector placements.
• Work with managers and professionals in other services to ensure effective collaborative planning and the organisation of structured sets of arrangements, especially at times of transition between stages of education, for example for preschool children and those moving from school to Post 16 and/or Post 19 provision.
• Support and develop the delivery of assessment, preventative interventions, and statutory processes related to LA provision for children and young people aged 0-25 with high level SEND, promoting local and national policies on inclusion.
• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of changing caselaw, and legal change in SEND; supporting the production and updating of written guidance and procedures relating to statutory assessment and decision making.
• Working under the direction of the Head of SEND Assessment and Review and working collaboratively with other managers within the service, ensuring that statutory assessment processes, and decisions on Education, Health and Care Plans and placement of children with Education, Health and Care Plans support and compliment policy and support and promote inclusive education in the organisation.

Personal Requirements:

• Appropriate professional qualification (law/public administration/education/social care/health).
• Management qualification or commitment to undertake management training.
• A qualification in SEND or evidence of significant and extensive experience.
• Evidence of significant and extensive SEND experience.
• Experience of supervising staff.
• Participation in Recruitment and Selection of all staff.
• Relevant legislation/guidance: Detailed knowledge and understanding of relevant legislative and regulatory framework for SEND and Government initiatives relating to SEND, and working knowledge of related regulations (eg exclusions and admissions).
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of mechanisms to support schools and other settings to meet the educational needs of children and young people with SEND.
• Enhanced DBS check.

Working Hours: 37hrs / 9:00am - 17:00pm / Monday to Friday

Pay: £640.20 per day

Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.