Senior Ehc Caseworker

I am currently recruiting for an EHC caseworker to work in Haringey.

**ROLE PURPOSE**:
The Education Health and Care Plan Caseworker is the key professional in bringing together and identifying key information on children's special educational needs across professional groups and agencies and is responsible for writing the education healthand care plan for a child (EHCP) in collaboration with the parent and child.

The EHCP is a statutory document that must be written in a way that complies with local and national and local policies and approaches to SEND, in particular the 2014 Code of Practice. The EHCP Caseworker must identify appropriate outcomes and resourcingthat is then devolved to settings in order to support children and young people with SEND between the ages of 0-25 years. The educational health and care plan is a statutory document and the support must be delivered by the educational establishment, in theway described in the EHCP.

The purpose of the educational health and care plan should achieve the best outcomes for children with SEND and maximise their attainment in preparation for adult hood in the areas of:
Achieving good education/employment

Maximising independence

Community inclusion/participation

Good health

The EHCP must be written in a way that ensure these aspirations are recognised and achieved, within the resources available.

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**:
1.0 To work with children young people and families to identify their wishes, views and aspirations. As part of this the post holder must be able to work with key professionals to communicate with children and young people with SEND.

2.0 To be responsible for receiving and interpreting reports and advice for proposed education health and care plans for children with SEND

2.1 To work in a multidisciplinary way to identify needs, outcomes and proposed resourcing for the child's education health and care plan across health education and social care

2.2 To write the EHCP within national guidance and local guidance for education health and social care, and with detailed knowledge of the boroughs 'Local Offer', including awareness of teaching approaches and methods of differentiation and local schoolplaces and types

2.3 To be aware of thresholds for of resourcing, including personal budgets, and be able to assess and recommend indicative levels of personal budget in line with local policy if requested by the family and agreed by the relevant team manager

2.4 To independently meet with parents to discuss proposed EHCP's and parental response to EHCP's, negotiating and resolving and areas of disagreement, with an awareness of of local resource.

2.5 To maintain and update database in relation to all special educational needs processing and ensure statistical data is available to colleagues and others.