Starting Well Special Educational Needs

The SEND Practitioner will work collaboratively to support families with additional needs in relation to SEND. They will provide effective, needs led family support for children with SEND or additional needs in relation to their health and development.

Ensuring children with emerging/complex needs receive the right support at the right time. Working under delegation from a Health Visitor, the SEND Practitioner will contact families and explore the outcome of any intervention. The SEND Practitioner role will be supporting families and their additional needs, this may include discreet pieces of work within family homes.

This vacancy is across Northwich and Winsford districts.

To assess and co-ordinate needs led support for children and families with SEND. Using the early help and prevention model to support improved outcomes for Children and Young People.

The post holder will work under a model of delegation from the SEND Nurse, Health Visitors and Operational Leads within the Service to ensure individualised support in preparation for school.

The post holder will be a point of contact for delegated families to ensure effective communication with the service. This role will form a pivotal part of the Starting Well team through engagement with families to offer specific SEND support and interventions at the earliest time using a Think Family approach.

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We have been recognised by the Health Service Journal as one of the top places to work in the health service for the last two years running. CWP also scored the highest in the north west (among mental health, learning disability and community Trusts) for staff “recommending CWP as a place to work” in the NHS Staff Survey 2020.

We have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool - and provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

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Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification)andvalues.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

If your disability meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’ Please also inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

All new clinical support staff will be required to have completed or working towards the Care Certificate (CWP In-house 2 day training to be completed within 6 months of start date).

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

CWP encourages and supports all staff to become vaccinated against COVID-19.