Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
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A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
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Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
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Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
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Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
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Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
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Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
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Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
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Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
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An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
We are looking to recruit a number of EHCP Casework Officers to join our dedicated Statutory Assessment Team (SAT). Opportunities are available across our Assessment Team, Review Team, and Complex Case Resolution Team, supporting mediation and SEND Tribunal activity. These roles are central to ensuring children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities receive timely, high-quality support through the Education, Health and Care (EHC) process. Whether coordinating new assessments, managing annual reviews, or resolving complex cases through mediation and legal processes, you will work closely with families, schools, settings and multi-agency professionals to secure the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Katy Blessett on 07483 400879 or via email: [email protected]
What will you be doing?
As an EHCP Casework Officer, you will manage a caseload of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, leading the statutory Education, Health and Care (EHC) assessment, annual review processes or appeals/mediations. You will work closely with families, schools and multi-agency professionals to develop high-quality, person-centred EHCPs, ensure provision meets identified needs, and support positive outcomes for children and young people. The role involves coordinating meetings, presenting cases to decision-making panels, negotiating placements and provision, resolving complex issues, and ensuring all statutory deadlines and legal requirements are met. You will play a key role in building effective partnerships, supporting informed decision-making, and helping to deliver high-quality SEND services across the county.
About you
We are looking for organised, resilient and solution-focused professionals who are passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. You will be an excellent communicator, able to build positive relationships with families, schools and multi-agency professionals, while confidently managing complex conversations and competing priorities. You will have strong analytical and written skills, enabling you to interpret professional advice, make informed recommendations and produce high-quality, person-centred EHCP documentation. Whether you have experience in SEND casework, education, health, social care or a related field, you will bring a commitment to delivering a responsive, child-centred service, meeting statutory deadlines and finding creative solutions to complex issues. We are particularly interested in candidates who can work collaboratively, think critically, and remain calm and professional when handling challenging cases and sensitive situations.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
