Early Years Specialist SEN Support Officer

7 days ago

Richmond, Greater London, United Kingdom Achieving for Children Full time

About the Role

The Early Years Special Educational Needs (SEND) Support Officer will play a crucial role in providing practical guidance to practitioners supporting children with complex needs across Kingston and Richmond. The post holder will be responsible for:

  • Implementing professionals' recommendations, teaching practitioners how to break these into small steps or SMART targets.
  • Demonstrating practical interaction and intervention strategies and monitoring their effectiveness in helping children learn and develop.
  • Demonstrating small group activities, showing how to use resources effectively and support SENCOs at networks and with training.
  • Supporting settings with statutory assessment paperwork, attending multi-agency meetings, or attending various panels or support SEND planning meetings as directed by the Senior Adviser Early Years SEND.
  • Providing significant scrutiny and 0-5 input into EHC Needs Assessment panels (fortnightly) and attending panels/scrutiny for EY and KS1 (bi-monthly).
  • Contributing significantly to pathway planning by completing specialist assessment paperwork for specialist panels.
  • Contributing to the development of SEN training and networks and delivering this programme as required.

About You

You will have a capacity for working respectfully and collaboratively with a range of professionals across schools, PVIs, health, social care and education and in partnership with parents/carers. This will include:

  • Communication and interpersonal skills that are open, honest, persuasive and pragmatic, including excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
  • Strong organisational abilities: time management, creative-thinking, problem-solving and multitasking, working independently with minimal management supervision.
  • Personal determination, drive, energy and ambition to achieve challenging objectives, celebrate success and deliver excellent outcomes for children using a strength based approach.
  • A willingness self-evaluate and develop your own professional practice, through engaging with a range of reflective practice, evidencing the impact of your own work.
  • Substantial experience of working in an early years or similar setting.
  • Direct experience of supporting children with a range of additional needs and disabilities.
  • Sound knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice 2015 and of the Local Offer.
  • Substantial experience of planning for children with a range of complex needs and adapting practice to meet identified needs and modelling intervention strategies to others.
  • Broad knowledge of interaction and intervention strategies to support learning and progress.

About Our Benefits

We are committed to creating a positive supportive environment, where you will have access to a wide range of resources, as well as a competitive salary and all the perks to enable hybrid working. In AfC, you will also have access to:

  • A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.
  • A range of staff benefits and discounts.
  • An excellent learning and development offer to support your career pathway.

Important Information

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

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