Ehcp Coordinator

**Job Number**

LBC03192

**Contract Type**

Maternity Cover

**Posting End Date**

19 June 2024

**Job Area**

Education (not schools)

**About the job**:
**Salary: £30,825 - £33,945 per year pro rata**
**Hours per week: 37**
**Contract type: Maternity Cover up to 1 year**

We have a rewarding opportunity to work within Our Special Educational Needs Assessment Service, were you’ll be responsible for delivery of high quality casework in line with the statutory requirements in the SEND Code of Practice 2015 and the Children and Families Act 2014.

You’ll coordinate multi-agency assessments of education, health and care and ensure that Education, Health and Care plans are issued within statutory timescales, up to date and reflect the needs for the young person and the provision that they require.

You’ll organise and coordinate statutory EHC needs assessments and plan (EHCNA and EHCP) processes. You will have an allocated caseload and be aligned to one of the two teams supporting assessment, review, phase transfer processes reconciliation and resolution. You’ll work with professionals across education, health and care as well as the young person and their family with a focus of improving outcomes for children and young people.

Please note this role does not attract sponsorship.

**About you**:
To be successful in this role, you must have the ability to follow procedures and guidelines, assimilate complex information and communicate this to others appropriately as well as have excellent verbal and written communication skills and a high level of literacy to support good case recording and high quality EHC plans.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop on your existing skills by working on own initiative and organise own workload to meet competing targets and deadlines.

We do ask that you are Educated to A level or equivalent to support good case recording and quality EHC plans.

Applicants for this role will need to be able to have demonstrable understanding of the Education, Health and Care needs assessment Process as well as being willing to adjust working arrangements to meet service demands.

This is a public facing role so you’ll need to show off your fluency in speaking and writing English

**About us**:
Our ambitious **Luton 2040 Vision** - that no-one in Luton will have to live in poverty - is at the heart of everything we do. We recognise that our people are remarkable, talented, committed and passionate about serving our residents.

The people of Luton depend heavily on this council - and that means our workforce Are you ready to realise the remarkable and help us deliver our vision?

**Application Process**:
**Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.**

**Benefits**:
We offer a range of excellent staff benefits which include:

- From 25 to 32 days’ annual leave: linked to length of service and grade
- Buying annual leave scheme: buy up to 20 days additional annual leave
- Career Pathways: step up in your career or move into a specialist area
- Pension scheme: with generous employer contributions of up to 20.2 per cent (at July 2023) and 3x salary death in service grant
- Employee Assistance Programme: a free, 24/7 confidential counselling and wellbeing support service available to all employees, their partner or spouse and dependent children over 16 still living at home
- Work/life balance: flexible working options including working from home where possible. We welcome requests for flexible working arrangements including part-time hours and alternative working patterns
- Training and support: unlimited access to development courses, mentoring and support and clear career pathways
- Staff offers: includes discounts on your MOT, gym and fitness, restaurants and salons
- Arriva Travel Club: great value savings on local bus travel

**How to apply**: