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SEND Senior Practitioner

Job Summary
Contract Type:
Fixed Term
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
28/10/2024
Advert End Date:
08/11/2024 23:59
Salary:
£44,711 - £47,754 per annum
Hours per week:
37
Job Category:
Education
Vacancy ID:
271940
Employment Location:
Newcastle City Centre
Post Number:
CES763(e)
Number of posts:
1
Closing date:
8 Nov
Further Information
Fixed term (2 years)

Why work for Newcastle City Council?
Newcastle City Council offers you an exciting opportunity to work in a vibrant city with proactive and committed people who have a genuine desire and motivation to support positive outcomes for the residents of Newcastle, striving to achieve the values of being Proud, Fair and Ambitious.

What do we offer?
As an employee of NCC, you will have access to:
 
  • a competitive salary
  • access to Local Government pension scheme
  • 25 days annual leave, rising to 29 days after 5 years service in addition to Bank Holidays, with the ability to buy additional leave annually
  • Family Supportive Policies
  • a bespoke induction
  • agile working, enabling both home working and office-based working
  • a generous Flexi Scheme
  • access to Occupational Health, Mindfulness sessions and other wellbeing initiatives
  • access to various salary sacrifice schemes – covering cars, white electrical goods and tax efficient saving contributions towards your pension
  • discounted travel passes. 

What about the Team?
You will work as part of a small project team of four full-time colleagues.  You will be based within the Children and Families directorate of the Council, specifically working alongside teams and services that help schools and other education settings.
This is an exciting project for two years to develop and deliver transformed systems that support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities to get the very best from their educational experiences, in a cost-effective way.

What about the Role?
As the project’s Senior Practitioner, you will act as technical lead for specific, time sensitive projects using SEND and finance knowledge to inform project work and you  will support SEND service in delivering high quality and effective services. You and the project team will work alongside other teams and services to accomplish the project’s objectives which are:
  • Review and embed robust and consistent decision-making processes around the statutory assessment and review process for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities
  • Support the review and change processes associated with improved transition pathways to ensure children and young people with SEND get the right support, in the right place and the right time
  • Design, test and deploy digitised Descriptors of Needs for use by families and professionals
  • Review, redesign, test and deploy Newcastle’s Local Offer to help families and professions navigate the services and support that they are able to access more effectively
  • Actively support all mainstream schools in implementing the Newcastle Inclusion Quality Framework
  • Design and embed an easy-to-use way for children, young people, their families and professionals to get answers to their questions quickly.

Further background may be found in the final report produced by iMPOWER following five months of working with stakeholders in the city.  The final report can be accessed here.

To apply for this role, you will need to be confident, customer focussed, able to communicate with a wide and varied audience and have a flexible approach to work, meeting challenging deadlines.
If this sounds like a job for you, please keep reading and look at the Job Description and Person Specification provided.

The City Council offers a range of opportunities for training and development to support you to achieve the best outcomes for yourself and the people we support.  The wide range of services provided across the Directorate and the Council means that there are always opportunities to develop and grow during your careers with the Council.

If you would like to discuss this role prior to making an application, please contact Deanne Taylor, Head of Service, SEND 0191 2115300 or via email (deanne.taylor@newcastle.gov.uk)
 
Interviews are scheduled to take place on 22 November in the Civic Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Closing date for applications is 11.59pm on Friday 8 November 2024.

We are strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure and a range of other recruitment checks.
We are committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment.  This post is working in regulated activity.  If you are successful we will undertake additional recruitment checks which will include a check to see if you have had any criminal convictions, a check of police information and we will check the barred list(s).  It is a criminal offence for a barred individual to apply for a job in regulated activity.  

If you require any assistance completing this application please visit Newcastle Work & Thrive (https://www.workandthrivenewcastle.org.uk/) and speak to an advisor.
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