Commissioning Officer

2 weeks ago

Huddersfield, Kirklees, United Kingdom Semester Full time
Please be aware this is a Long Term Temporary post to start ASAP.

In Kirklees, our ambition for our children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is the same as for all children and young people – that they achieve well in their early years, at school and in college and lead happy and fulfilled lives.

We expect our workforce to use a person-centred approach to support our children and young people with SEND and their parents and carers.

This means keeping them at the centre of all that we do, ensuring that their views and aspirations are listened to and respected and that they are actively involved in planning and decision making.

This role is central to improving outcomes for our children and young people with SEND and helping us to achieve our ambition.


You will need to be compliant with legislation, specifically within the legislative requirements of the Children and Families Act 2014 and the associated SEND Code of Practice: 0 to 25.

You will also need to adhere to local policy and practice.

This is a challenging and exciting role within a service that is central to improving outcomes for our children and young people with SEND.

You will have overall responsibility for a caseload, and you will work closely with children, young people, and parents/carers to ensure effective Education, Health and Care (EHC) needs assessment, planning and review, to include: –

  • Clear, concise, and accessible EHC Plans, which are person centred, clearly identify needs, have SMART outcomes, identify appropriate provision and support and are forward looking, with planning for key transition points.
  • Statutory compliance including local policy, practice, and timescales. Your casework will include visits to families to explain the statutory process, supporting high quality and timely EHC needs assessment and EHC Plans (as above), advice and guidance to schools and settings, ensuring robust annual review. You will be involved in robust quality assurance and monitoring against performance measures in order to support continuous improvement, ensuring appropriate and timely action including attending attend annual review meetings as appropriate.
  • Statutory work relating to EHC needs assessment, planning and review in accordance with legislative requirements and local policy and practice.
  • Work effectively within a culture of high performance, self-evaluation, and continuous improvement. Pro-actively involved in rigorous quality assurance and robust monitoring against performance measures.
  • Support the SEND Assessment & Commissioning Officer to ensure high quality and timely EHC needs assessment and planning, which may include assessment coordination, drafting EHC plans and facilitation of support planning meetings.
  • Robust scrutiny and quality assurance of annual review reports, making recommendations as appropriate.
  • Amending EHC Plans within statutory timescales following annual review.
  • Flexible and creative problem solving to ensure provision is effective in meeting identified special educational needs.
  • Develop and promote positive working relationships with parents, schools and practitioners across Education, Health and Care and positively represents the SEND Assessment & Commissioning Team through own practice.
  • Effectively support and utilise multi-agency/multi-disciplinary panel arrangements, to enable timely, transparent, and accountable decisions regarding EHC needs assessment and provision for children and young people.
  • A sound knowledge and understanding of statutory requirements and local policy and practice, applying this to casework when making recommendations i.e., Effective use of IT systems to ensure efficient and timely EHC needs assessment, planning and review.
Free on-going training opportunities upon registering as part of our commitment to you.
Competitive Rates of pay
In house payroll, providing weekly payments and support

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