About the role
Are you looking for a new challenge and want to make a difference for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disability in North Northamptonshire?
The Education Health and Care (EHC) Team are looking to recruit an EHC Officer to work with, and on behalf of, children, young people, and their families, working closely with relevant professionals, enabling the Local Authority to fulfil its statutory duty in respect of children/young people with special educational needs. The EHC Officer will manage Caseworkers and Caseworker Assistants for an area of responsibility ensuring that statutory deadlines are adhered to. They will take an active role in implementing the local strategy for SEN and, where appropriate, to undertake research and development activities which contribute to the development of the EHC team’s processes. The EHC Officer will also play a significant role in monitoring pupil progress and to contribute towards the strategic development of the County SEN provision.
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity 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 worked in the office.
For informal enquiries, please contact Sarah. Johnson-mcmahon@northnorthants.gov.uk
Shortlisting will take place week commencing 14th April 2025
Interviews will take place on week commencing 21st April 2025.
What will you be doing?
Be part of the EHC Management Team and, have management and reporting responsibility for an area of work.
Attend meetings to contribute to the governance of the EHC Statutory processes in line with SEND Code of Practice 2015.
Have line management responsibility for a team consisting of Caseworkers and Caseworker Assistants.
Be responsible, in consultation with the Caseworkers for the accuracy of statutory SEN documentation and be the authorised officer to sign them, in addition to ensuring reviews of children’s statutory documents are carried out at least annually and agree those that require amending or discontinuing.
Be point of contact for children, young people, their families and other parties relevant to the EHC processes managing difficult conversations and complex situations.
Contribute ideas and embrace change as systems and processes develop to improve service delivery.
About you
Successful applicants will have experience of working with families, children and young people in a professional capacity, being a point of contact for service users as well as being able to manage difficult conversations and manage complex situations.
They will have working knowledge of statutory processes and the ability manage and engage with statutory systems ie decision making functions.
They will have the ability to manage a number of staff with regards to motivating and focusing the team to meet statutory deadlines.
The successful applicant will also be able to work in a pressurised environment.
Our benefits
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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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