Starting Well Special Educational Needs

**Main area**
- Starting Well Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Practitioner

**Grade**

Band 4

**Contract**

Permanent: Part Time

**Hours**

Part time - 22.5 hours per week (9am - 5pm Monday to Friday (work pattern to be agreed))

**Job ref**

373-CYP1430

**Site**
- Ellesmere Port and Neston District

**Town**

Ellesmere Port and Neston

**Salary**

£26,530 - £29,114 Per annum pro-rata

**Salary period**

Yearly

**Closing**

27/06/2025 23:59

**Job overview**:
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 Ellesmere Port and Neston District.

**Main duties of the job**:
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.

**Working for our organisation**:
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

We also offer up to three weeks’ induction, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you hit the ground running with CWP.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

If you have a disability that 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 inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

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 £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- NVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care or Equivalent

**Desirable criteria**:

- Coaching
- Our Ways of Working

**Knowledge & Expertise**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Understanding of Local Authority SEND pathways
- Awareness of trauma informed; strength based approach
- Understanding of Healthy Child Programme
- Understanding of Early Years Foundation Stage and Children’s Centre Core Offer
- Understanding of Early Help and Prevention pathway in relation to Children’s services and Continuum of Need
- Knowledge of Child Protection workings and practice

**Desirable criteria**:

- Understanding of SEND parenting support
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