Job Description & Person Specification >
Our special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) team is looking for someone to join them as a SEND Casework Officer.
The successful candidate will oversee the Education, Health and Care (EHC) needs assessment, planning and review and implementation processes for children and young people from 0 to 25.
The case work role is to work with children and young people and monitor the Section F of the EHCP and its implementation. You will work across schools, colleges, as well as alongside health and social care teams. Your role is to champion the child or young person and work in co-produced and restorative manner.
Experience of working with children and young people with a range of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families, and a good working knowledge of current and emerging SEND-related legislation and the SEND Code of Practice will be essential, as well as a good knowledge of Preparing for Adulthood. A key task will be to ensure that for every child and young person, the EHC needs assessment and planning process runs efficiently and statutory deadlines are met, but alongside this you will manage a group of allocated children and young people who are at risk of school or college placement breakdown or not having their needs met.
The post-holder will need to be able to work under pressure, to meet deadlines and to identify priorities when faced with competing demands, and bring excellent verbal and written communication skills to this role.
This post will be carrying out Regulated Activity. As such the post will require an Enhanced Criminal Record Check plus an additional Barred List Check. The check will reveal any spent and unspent convictions and adult cautions (which have not been filtered), any local Police information and a check of either the Adult, Child or Adult and Child Barred Lists.
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For an informal chat please contact Grace Beer on 07769 160110 or [email protected].
Interviews are expected to be conducted during the week commencing 27th July 2026.
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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