SEND SfYP EHCP Coordinator

Job Title: SEND SfYP EHCP Coordinator
Starting Salary: £33,366 pa with the opportunity to progress to £36,124 per annum
Location: Stevenage - with travel
Hours: 37 per week
Contract: Permanent

Things are changing in SEND for Hertfordshire County Council. We are making SEND everyone's business.

Do you want to make a positive impact and be part of that change? We’re continuing to invest in our statutory SEND workforce.

About the team

EHC coordinators are aligned to one of several functional teams and we have an opportunity for you to specialise in:

Services for Young People: responsible for young people age 16 and over with an EHCP: who attend a college (or other further education settings), who are completing an apprenticeship, are in training or a supported internship or who are not in education, employment or training. Also support care leavers age 18 and over with an EHCP.

We are looking for an experienced EHC Co-ordinator to lead on our year 11+ Phase Transfer activities for the coming year, to support our Statutory SEND Teams to ensure that young people have a suitable provision named in their EHCP by the 31 March deadline. Successful candidate will need to understand college and other post-16 FE and be able to negotiate with providers.

About the role

The Education Health & Care Coordinator (EHC Coordinator) role is highly process-driven. The role involves managing and processing EHC plans within a complex legal framework to tight timescales. It involves implementing legal requirements as part of a meticulous review of documents, then creating, reviewing and amending plans. Whilst the role does involve communication and ongoing dialogue with practitioners, parents and carers, this is primarily related to statutory processes. The role involves virtually no direct interaction with children or young people.

Being an EHC Coordinator, you’ll be delivering casework that coordinates professionals across education, health and care as well as the family, to deliver EHC assessments, plans and reviews to time and high quality, with a focus on improving outcomes for children and young people.​ This includes:

• Developing the highest standards of achievement and inclusion for children and young people with SEN through effective casework within the policy and budget framework of the Council, ensuring a focus on preparing for adulthood from the earliest ages.​
• Taking responsibility for the preparation of information for parents, children, young people and schools, which provides the right information at the appropriate time, in a simple to use way, which engages partners in understanding what our responsibility is to children, families and schools. ​
• Managing and processing statutory casework within legal and internal timelines ​
• Working collaboratively with professionals across education, health and care services​
• Ensuring effective case management, integrated working practice and successful outcomes for children.​
• Participating in resource decisions, taking the lead where appropriate, for example decision making processes relating to whether or not assessment or plans are written, or whether specialist provision is agreed, ensuring that resource decisions are in line with local authority policies, procedures and eligibility criteria. This could include chairing or attending panel meetings.​
• Participating, as required, in a range of meetings with other professionals and​parents/carers in relation to individual children with complex needs, including representing Children’s Services at annual review, chairing reviews, attending and chairing multi-agency meetings as appropriate.​​
• Contributing to the development of policy, procedures and provision for children with SEN children’s needs, which includes maintaining an up-to-date knowledge relating to SEN casework, changes to national legislation and departmental policies, and supporting induction/training and support to all team members.​​
• Inputting and maintaining accurate and comprehensive database records as required and participate in the Local Authority’s systems for monitoring and quality assurance for children and young people known to the EHC assessment and review team.

About you

Essential:

• Extensive knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice and the Children and Families Act 2014
• Experience working with post-16 SEND young people in colleges
• Educated to A level or equivalent
• Ability to negotiate with providers
• Excellent communication skills
• The ability to work to deadlines and under pressure
• High level of literacy to support good case recording and quality EHC plans.
• Hold a current driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work

Desirable:

• Previous experience with casework management

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

This job role is within the Health and Social Care Family, level HSC9 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles - Health and social care

To hear more about this opportunity please contact Tracy Noble - tracy.noble@hertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.

Benefits of working for us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Additional information

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Driving required
You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.