Sen Case Officer

6 months ago

Reading, United Kingdom Reading Borough Council Full time

Job description

**SEN Case Officer**

**Brighter Futures for Children**
**Full time, Permanent post**

**About us**
Brighter Futures for Children is a not-for-profit company, owned by, but independent of, Reading Borough Council. Although we are independent, we are very much part of the Reading Family. Our people enjoy all of benefits as other Council employees including membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and continuous service.

We work closely with partners in the local community and key organisations including Reading Borough Council, policy, public health and voluntary groups. We are responsible for the delivery of children’s social care, early help & prevention, education services (including SEND). This also includes fostering and adoption, the Youth Justice Service and traded services with schools.

Our main aim is to protect and enhance the lives of the children of Reading. We help families find long-term solutions to ensure children lead happy, healthy and successful lives.

**About Team/role**
The position of SEN Case Officer is to co-ordinate Education, Health and Care (EHC) Assessments and plans for a caseload of children and young people (CYP) with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), leading to high quality outcome focused EHC Plans and working in collaboration with families and professionals throughout the process.

The job holder will lead and co-ordinate the casework required to meet Brighter Futures for Children’s (BFfC) statutory duties such as phased transfers, to ceasing, initiating, processing and maintaining EHC plans for Children and young people between the ages of 0 - 25 years old.

**Role responsibilities**
- Work in partnership with parents and ensure that children, young people and their families are fully involved in the assessment process and the plan builds upon the aspirations of children and young people.
- Ensure the Education, Health and Care assessment process is carried out efficiently, consistently and in line with the statutory requirements set out in the Children and Families Act and the SEN Code of Practice. This will include ensuring that we meet our Statutory timescales and manage the Statutory processes especially in relation to transition points, the ceasing, initiating, processing and maintaining of EHCPs. Lead on advising partners on the key SEN legislation and ensure the Code of Practice is implemented.
- Support effective multi-agency working to support the development of comprehensive Education, Health and Care Plan, Annual Reviews and positive multi-agency working relationships. This may include chasing assessment reports, facilitating multi-agency meetings and meetings with families.
- Chair the EHC Production meeting with family, school and other agencies, ensuring that it is conducted using person centred approaches and that the family are able to participate fully.
- Ensure that the EHC Production meeting addresses all aspects of the child’s development and facilitate the meeting in a way which encourages creative, personalised solutions to achieve the child’s outcomes.
- Draft high-quality Education, Health and Care Plans, which are clear, accessible and outcome focused and in line with the legal and statutory requirements described in the Children and Family’s Act and SEN Code of Practice.
- To ensure that parents, educational psychologists, head teachers and others, as appropriate, are fully consulted in the assessment of an individual child and that they are kept fully informed as to the reasons for the decisions made by the LA.
- Discuss the completed assessments with parents, including clarifying assessment content to aid understanding and present a summary to the SEND Panel for allocation of resources.
- Work with the family, and other agencies as required, if an EHC Assessment is refused or if an EHC Assessment does not result in a statutory EHC Plan, in order to plan a way forward.
- Represent BFFC at admissions panels for maintained special schools and resource units and be responsible for communicating the outcomes of panel meetings to parents and other authorities.
- Be a named Officer for a number of identified schools, both within and outside of the authority (mainstream and special) and special resources.
- Manage and maintain a designated caseload of children/young people with special educational needs ensuring that BFfC’s statutory obligations are met. This will include co-ordination of EHC needs assessment, monitoring the agreed Education, Health and Care Plans and ensuring that a review is held at least annually, attending where possible, and that the plan continues to meet the identified needs of the child and young person.
- Ensure Education, Health and Care plans are amended following annual reviews within statutory timescales.
- Create and maintain up to date records ensuring the relevant databases are updated. Collate and write reports as required for meetings such as the SEN Panel, fundi

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