Special Educational Needs Placement and Finance Officer

**Salary**

£41,442 - £44,331 per annum.

**Package**

Permanent, Full-Time, 36 hours per week.

**Job category/type**

Children's Social Care

**Date posted**

25/02/2025

**Job reference**

R0006852

**About us at Hounslow**

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

**About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

**Our Benefits**

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

**About The Role**

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Joint Commissioning Team as a Special Educational Needs Placement and Finance Officer. As a key member of our Children’s Commissioning team, you will be instrumental in the implementation and maintenance of financial and statistical procedures to enable effective budget management of the High Needs Block and support the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) teams to meet its statutory duties in relation to pupils with Education, Health and Care Plans.

In addition to the this, you will ensure the Children and Young People with Special Needs and or Disabilities have access to good quality education placements and you will work closely with local education settings, our SEN department and a range of other teams including Finance.

**About The Team You’ll Be Working In**

**Key Responsibilities for the Joint Commissioning Team include**:
1. Close Collaboration with Lifelong Learning, Skills and Employment: You will work closely with the Council’s SEN and Finance Teams to ensure children are placed in education settings that meet their needs.

2. Strong Local Partnerships: You will have a portfolio of schools and education settings and work in partnership with local health services.

3. Good Practice Accounting: You will take the lead on good quality accounting for your element of the High Needs Budget and for providing up to date data and financial projections for Children with Special Needs and or Disabilities.

**About You**

1. You bring experience of working in accounting with a strong track record of finance systems.

2. You have an understanding of the education sector, ideally with an understanding of Local Authority Education budgets.

3. You will be organised and have the ability to work well under pressure and meet multiple deadlines.

4. You have the ability to build trusting relationships with colleagues, both internally and externally, and can communicate clearly and effectively at all levels.

5. You will be working for Children’s Joint Commissioning, reporting directly to the Senior Placements and Monitoring Officer.

**Essential for The Role**:
Basic DBS

**Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.**

**When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact**

The key information you need about the role should be in the Role Profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact Sally Hewett.

***Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 24th March 2025.