Education Health Care Plan - Assistant Coordinator Bristol, England
Job description
How you'll make a difference
This is a new role within the Education, Learning and Skills department at South Gloucestershire Council. As an Assistant Co-ordinator, you will work within a small cluster team with two Education Health Care Plan Co-ordinators and a Senior Education Health Care Plan Co-ordinator. Your role will be crucial in supporting the smooth running of the team.
We provide high quality, coordinated child, young person and family-centred services which respond to needs and adopt a preventative and early help approach. Whenever and wherever possible services will be provided at a mainstream universal level (within communities) and barriers to this will be removed.
As part of our ongoing commitment to improve the outcomes of children and young adults with Special Educational Needs and Disability we have created 7 new roles to support these services.
What will you be doing?
- You will, on a rota basis, staff the duty line/inbox, offering support, advice and guidance to the SEND community
- You will develop strong relationships with schools and relevant professionals involved in annual reviews and new assessments, ensuring reports and information are received in a timely way.
- You will provide essential support to the cluster team with the preparation, upload and dissemination of documents as necessary
- You will be responsible for ensuring that the work of the cluster team is on track. You will do this by monitoring timescales, updating progress spreadsheets and ensuring that everyone is informed about possible delays/missed deadlines
- You will attend annual review meetings, amending and finalising EHCPs as a result while liaising with parent/carers and professionals in order to produce an improved and updated plan that meets our Quality Assurance standards.
- You will actively follow up with students who are no longer in education, employment or training and ensuring that they have the correct advice and support. Ceasing EHCPs where appropriate.
What we need from you
- You will have experience in a relevant area of statutory or voluntary sector work in the health, education or social care field.
- You will have an understanding of the needs of service users and excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You should also have the ability to carry out assessments and communicate findings and risks to service users, families, carers.
- You will have experience of working with a broad range of people including families, education, social care and health care professionals.
- You will have a relevant qualification e.g. NVQ Level 3 or relevant experience in health or social care or equivalent.
- It is essential you possess excellent IT skills both in Office 365 and to use client database.
- You will have experience and understanding of, or be prepared to work in accordance with the Council’s safeguarding policies and procedures.
- You must be able to travel to various locations across South Gloucestershire.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different
We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of
- We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life
- We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.
We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
