About the role
Are you looking for a new challenge?
Can you make a difference for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disability?
The Education Health and Care Team (EHC) are looking to recruit an EHC Annual Review Caseworker to work with, and on behalf of children, young people and their families in North Northamptonshire, working closely with relevant professionals, through statutory SEND processes.
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity and want to make a real difference to young people and families in North Northants we look forward to receiving your application.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be required to attend an interview and complete a short task.
This position will be a hybrid of office and remote working with the expectation that at least one day will be worked in the office at Tithe Barn Road, Wellingborough.
For informal enquiries, please contact Sarah Johnson-McMahon via email at sarah.johnson-mcmahon@northnorthants.gov.uk.
Shortlisting will be on the 2nd January 2024.
Interviews will be on 9th January 2024.
What will you be doing?
The Caseworker role focuses on generating outstanding and effective Education Health and Care Plans to support children and young people with their education and preparing for adulthood
This is a diverse and engaging role with Caseworkers carrying responsibility for progressing individual cases in partnership with lead professionals and other agencies. Duties may include:
- Coordinating the collection of the assessments required to support SEND processes for new requests for assessment and Annual Reviews and producing high quality EHCP’s. You will be responsible for writing and amending EHC Plans.
- Liaising with a variety of services, agencies and providers to gather information in order to support the family to make well-informed choices, including parent support services.
Please refer to the attached Job description for full details of job responsibilities
About you
Successful applicants will have experience of working with families, children and young people in a professional capacity and will need to evidence that they have worked as an effective team member, and have the skills to empathise, mediate and support families with complex processes. You will need to be able to interpret professional advice and complete the written documentation to a high standard.
Please refer to the attached person specification for full details of the essential and desirable qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities required for this role.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our Key Commitments
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.
We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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