Senior SEND Key Workers

4 weeks ago

Tamworth, Staffordshire, United Kingdom Staffordshire County Council Full time

Are you a Special Educational Need & Disabilities (SEND) Key Worker who wants to develop their professional practice and career in the complex, challenging and rewarding world of SEND?

If so, come join us These roles have been created after listening to the SEND teams and careful reflection on what works to drive high quality and timely practice. These roles are based in either our Tamworth or our East Staffordshire team.

Main Responsibilities

You will :

  • Carry out duties of a current SEND Key Worker role with the additional responsibilities below
  • Implement the district SEND Team Quality Assurance plan for Education Health and Care (EHC) Plans for both new assessments and/or Annual Reviews.
  • Act as a keyworker for adults and children with special educational needs & disability, co-ordinate and call on the support of qualified Social work, Educational Psychology, Health professionals
  • Ensure collaborative relationships with individuals with special educational needs and a disability of all ages, and their families.
  • Identify and explore, with the individual and their family, innovative and appropriate actions to support their individual agreed, outcomes, facilitating individuals making informed choices.
  • Maintain appropriate professional records of all key discussions, investigations, findings, assessments, opinions (including factual basis) and decisions, including electronic client records and necessary performances data, in line with policies and procedures.
  • Undertake performance, quality assurance processes, including peer and reflective supervision, analysis of performance data, learning from complaints and compliments, personal development and continuing professional development.
  • Ensure all practice including referrals are consistent and compliant with the Staffordshire Inter-agency Adult Protection and Child Protection Procedures.
  • Deputise for the Family Practitioner Lead in their absence at weekly panels.
  • Oversee and provide professional guidance and support for the SEND Keyworker team on a core areas of SEND statutory responsibility within a district (e.g. assessment or review, Children in Care, Tribunals, Phase Transfers). Provide regular reports on performance, key trends and solution find in this area of responsibility.
The Ideal Candidate

You will:

  • Be a SEND professional, with experience of leading or are ready to take a lead in an area of SEND professional practice for a team.
  • Be child and family focussed but also ready to focus on performance and quality in both your own work whilst driving performance and quality in a specific area of practice for your team.
  • You will be expected to provide support to your colleagues in these specific areas of practice.

Interviews are likely to be held w/c 19/08/24

For more information, please contact - Mandy Baggott, Family Practitioner Lead:

We're happy to talk flexible working

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you'll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that's why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.

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