Watford (On-Site)
Permanent, Full time
Starting £40,221 to £44,428 per annum
Job Title: SEND EHCP Casework Team Lead
Location: Main base - Stevenage or Hemel Hempstead
Starting salary: £41,511 to £45,718 per annum
Contract: Permanent, 37 hours per week
Things are changing in SEND for Hertfordshire County Council. We are making SEND everyone's business.
Do you want to make a positive impact and be part of that change? We're investing in our statutory SEND workforce.
What does the role involve?
We've got opportunities for SEND Casework Team Leaders within our School Age Reviews Team.
You'll be overseeing EHC Coordinators, who are responsible for Education, Health, and Care Annual Reviews, for school age children. The team focuses on coordinating professionals across education, health and care and coproducing plans and provision with families of school age children.
You'll support your team to coproduce Education Health and Care plans in a person-centred way, maintaining excellent communication and quality standards. You'll keep an eye on the data and performance of the team, ensuring that we meet our statutory timescales.
You'll provide line management and supervision to the team, ensuring that every member of the team delivers our statutory SEND obligations and works to achieve the overall service targets and development plan. You'll support ongoing professional development, including induction, delivering training, and performance management processes for your team.
You will strive to maintain, develop and improve professional, supportive working relationships with education settings and parents in relation to EHC assessments and plans.
We are looking for you to have:
Interviews: Tuesday May 27th online or Tuesday June 3rd in person at Apsley
For an informal conversation please contact Rupinder.ahluwalia@hertfordshire.gov.uk
This job role is level 11 - Please locate the job profile via: Job profiles - Health and social car e
Benefits of working for us
How to apply
As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.
Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.
Driving required
You'll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.
English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.
Location: Main base - Stevenage or Hemel Hempstead
Starting salary: £41,511 to £45,718 per annum
Contract: Permanent, 37 hours per week
Things are changing in SEND for Hertfordshire County Council. We are making SEND everyone's business.
Do you want to make a positive impact and be part of that change? We're investing in our statutory SEND workforce.
What does the role involve?
We've got opportunities for SEND Casework Team Leaders within our School Age Reviews Team.
You'll be overseeing EHC Coordinators, who are responsible for Education, Health, and Care Annual Reviews, for school age children. The team focuses on coordinating professionals across education, health and care and coproducing plans and provision with families of school age children.
You'll support your team to coproduce Education Health and Care plans in a person-centred way, maintaining excellent communication and quality standards. You'll keep an eye on the data and performance of the team, ensuring that we meet our statutory timescales.
You'll provide line management and supervision to the team, ensuring that every member of the team delivers our statutory SEND obligations and works to achieve the overall service targets and development plan. You'll support ongoing professional development, including induction, delivering training, and performance management processes for your team.
You will strive to maintain, develop and improve professional, supportive working relationships with education settings and parents in relation to EHC assessments and plans.
We are looking for you to have:
- Comprehensive up to date knowledge and experience of the Children and Families Act 2014, SEND Code of Practice and SEND Regulations 2014.
- Experience of managing staff and delivering excellent service outcomes in a previous role is strongly desirable
- Current driving license and access to a car to be able to travel to a range of work bases and schools and this role does require you to be in one of our offices regularly and some countywide travel.
- Educated to degree level or have significant experience of a range of work within education.
- Experience of working well under pressure and being extremely well organised
Interviews: Tuesday May 27th online or Tuesday June 3rd in person at Apsley
For an informal conversation please contact Rupinder.ahluwalia@hertfordshire.gov.uk
This job role is level 11 - Please locate the job profile via: Job profiles - Health and social car e
Benefits of working for us
How to apply
As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.
Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.
Driving required
You'll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.
English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.
Closing date: Mon 19/05/2025 at 01:00
Job reference: HCC25140