As Education, Health and Care Assessment and Review Coordinator, you too can make a powerful contribution. You’ll be joining and helping to improve one of the best SEND services in the country. Our Westminster Local Area Ofsted 2020 SEND inspection was really positive, and the 2022 inspection for Kensington and Chelsea built on that success. As we’re a bi-borough team, you’ll be supporting children across the two.
As the EHC Assessment and Review Coordinator, you’ll be the primary, face-to-face contact for children, young people and their families. You’ll complete an EHC Needs Assessment and a review of EHCP processes. As part of our Annual Review team, you’ll also provide amends to existing EHC plans, consulting for placements and processing phased transfers. We want to ensure that all educational transitions are well managed. Your approach will be person centred and outcome focused, with transparency and respect both being key. You’ll aim to ensure that children, young people and families are treated as equal partners in the assessment and planning process.
For your caseload, you’ll set up and maintain positive and professional working relationships with families, education, social care and health services – all while keeping compliance responsibilities in mind. While you’ll facilitate a multi-agency approach, the drawing up of a consistent, joined-up plan will sit with you. Where appropriate, you’ll assist the family with making decisions about how to best use their budget.
You’ll provide effective, efficient commissioning of suitable educational provision and school placement for children and young people with an EHCP, focusing on accountability for outcomes. To strengthen children’s links with the community, you’ll develop initiatives and partnerships. As well as this, you’ll challenge providers when outcomes are not achieved and find the best course of action.
Plus, you’ll work with the SEN Team Manager or Senior EHC Coordinator to prepare and follow up on tribunal cases, making sure all actions are completed on time.
We’d like you to be a champion for technology – using it for case management, tracking and monitoring. Also, you’ll ensure that systems are clearly and consistently updated with all relevant information in a timely manner.
We work mostly school hours and are in the locality at least twice a week. We’re an incredibly busy, dedicated team, handling high pressure situations often. Still, we’ve found that the reward of making a genuine positive difference counterbalances the challenges that we face.
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