Education Health Care Plan Coordinator

Lynx Employment Services are a professional recruitment company based in Sheffield. Established in 2001, we have provided temporary and permanent staff to many different public and private companies.

We are recruiting on behalf of our client, who is looking for **Education Health Care Plan Coordinator** to join their team.

**_Start Date: ASAP_**

**_Pay Rate: £17.00 per hour_**

**Purpose of the Role**:
To work within the Statutory Assessment and Review Team contributing to the performance and effective delivery of the Local Authority’s Special Educational Needs Service.

This includes:

- To be responsible for a caseload of pupils, supporting schools and other educational settings through the Education Health and Care Assessment Process.
- Attending annual reviews and transition reviews in schools and other educational settings ensuring a ‘person centred’ approach and parents/carers are fully involved throughout the process.
- To produce high quality EHCP’s for children and young peoples across the 0-25 age range ensuring compliance with the Children's and Families Act 2014 and the Equality Act 2010.
- To be responsible for co-ordinating and monitoring bespoke educational programmes for young people who benefit from an alternative educational programme.
- To monitor cases funded through personal budgets reviewing outcomes and value for money.

**Main Duties**:

- To be responsible for a caseload of children and young people from 0-25 years through a collaborative and solution focused approach; being proactive, inclusive and supportive, ensuring the voices of the child, young person and family are at the heart of decision-making processes, building the confidence of all stakeholders.
- To support and make decisions in a legislative compliant manner to referrals from parents/ educational settings for statutory assessments under the SEN Code of Practice, delivering effective communication to children/young people, parents and educational settings.
- To develop high quality ‘user friendly’ EHC Plans. To work with other members of the team to peer review the quality of EHCP’s.
- On a daily basis to direct the work of their link Education, Health and Care Plan Assistant ensuring they are meeting the administrative timelines for tracking new EHCP’s and annual reviews.
- To support processes for children and young people who have EHC Plans that are at risk of permanent exclusion or permanently excluded. Attending meetings where appropriate and assisting in arranging future educational placements.
- To identify and liaise with educational settings when consulting for suitable placements, paying particular attention to the needs of the child and the LA’s drive to keep children and young people in city where appropriate.
- To work with voluntary, statutory and private sector partners to ensure that services are meeting the needs of children and families appropriately, within the available resources. To ensure Annual Reviews are attended with close scrutiny of the quality of education, achievement of outcomes, appropriateness of placement/provision and safeguarding procedures in a legislative compliant manner.
- To ensure that staff in Coventry schools, Independent schools and other settings in relation to SEND are knowledgeable of Coventry’s processes.
- To respond professionally and communicate effectively with parents/young people in both face to face meetings and in written communication.
- To effectively utilise Capita and other recording systems to ensure statutory deadlines can be tracked and recording is accurate.
- To proactively work with arbitration services in relation to disagreements relating to Coventry’s SEND Provision working with legal, SENDIASS and mediation services taking appropriate action.
- To support Senior EHC Co-ordinators to prepare robust tribunal cases.
- To provide advice, support and challenge to Headteachers, staff, Governors, education services and contribute and deliver training for staff in Coventry schools/other settings in relation to SEND issues.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract

**Salary**: £17.00 per hour

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Reference ID: 378726