Job Description

Job Purpose

• Based within the SEND Service to ensure the development and maintaining of compliant, high quality and effective SEND practices in Dudley MBC. To be a link to Centre of Professional Practice (CPP) to ensure CPP supports in the maintenance of high quality and effective SEND practices are sustained in children social care.

• You will lead and develop the SEND professional practice of other colleagues, and model and facilitate reflective practice incorporating peer review and other associated learning and established best practice.

• An exemplary practitioner, you will provide constructive challenges to enhance SEND practices, procedures, policies and standards; promote innovation and new ways of working and support the SEND Manager on the delivery of improved outcomes for Children and Young People with SEND, both within the SEND Service and within Children Services. .

• Your role will improve the quality of work done by SEND Case Officers and where relevant Dudley Children Services practitioners including ensuring their understanding of the Code of Practice and the requirement for compliancy, effective SEND case management, timeliness, quality written work, and managing relationships with a wide stakeholder group.

• The post holder should have, or be willing to develop, specialist knowledge of SEND practice, which can be used across Children services. They will also represent the service in developing key service provision/local strategic initiatives to ensure joined up working and outputs.

• To support colleagues in the SEND service and across all partners to undertake joint audits for improved outcomes and life chances for SEND children, young people and young adults, parents and carers who use the service.

Required Experience

• Significant experience of Advanced Practitioner delivery in special educational needs services for children and young people.
• Experience of implementing continual improvement in the quality assurance of SEND practices.
• Significant experience of contributing to the delivery of high quality services for children and young people and/or adults with disabilities, and/or special educational needs.

Connect2Socialwork is a trading style of Commercial Services Trading LTD - A company wholly owned by Kent County Council. Connect2Socialwork is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.