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**Hours: 37 per week**

**Contract Type: Permanent**

**Service Area: Children’s Services and Education**

**Department: Education, Inclusion and Safeguarding**

Bath and North East Somerset Council is looking to recruit a new Head of SEND to build on the council's excellent work and reputation in supporting children with SEND pupils in schools and settings across Bath & North East Somerset.

As a Head of Service, you will lead our SEND team and be responsible for the timely and efficient delivery of our Education Health Care Plans. This active role requires a talented and experienced individual who can work across numerous professional boundaries in Education, Health and Social Care. You will have experience of managing teams, complex budgets and overseeing good performance management arrangements.

This is an exciting time to join the service area as we begin our efforts to respond to the DFE SEND Implementation plan and deploy our capital and resource SEND strategy. This position, alongside parents and carers, will be pivotal in shaping SEND service delivery and improving the educational outcome of our children and young people with SEND.

In turn, you will join an experienced Education and Safeguarding Directorate that is supportive and enabling and a council that is caring and ambitious for the children and young people in Bath & North East Somerset.

Your main place of work will be the award-winning, modern Civic Centre in Keynsham, halfway between Bath and Bristol, easily accessible via car or public transport, with a train station 5 minutes’ walk away.

**Why B&NES Council?**

We offer a wide range of benefits, to ensure that you are paid fairly for your work, have the flexibility to enjoy a great work/life balance, and have the support you need. These include:

- A competitive salary package
- A range of flexible working and hybrid working options, including flexi-time, four regional offices and home-working, dependent on service requirements
- A generous holiday allowance and special leave provisions
- The Local Government Pension Scheme
- A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme - whatever life throws at you; we are committed to supporting you and your well-being at work and home
- Professional and personal development including in-house training and accredited qualifications including Aspiring Manager and Leadership Development
- Discount scheme including the VECTIS card that offers numerous local discounts including cycle to work and free entry to numerous local attractions with B&NES

**Interested to find out more?**

If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Chris Wilford, Director of Education & Safeguarding on 01225 477109 or 07977228124.

**To apply**

Bath & North East Somerset Council has one overriding purpose - to improve people’s lives. We have four core values which shape every aspect of our working life and how we look to the future. These values are to be **Bold, Empowered, Supportive **and** Transparent**.

**As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.**

**Interview Date**: Wednesday 17th May 2023.

**Safeguarding Statement**:
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.

As this post involves working within one of these groups, we will require a Disclosure & Barring Service check and/or subscription to the DBS online service. The suitability of all prospective employees or volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment.