Job description: Job introduction

Paid weeks per year: 47.36 (inclusive of holiday entitlement)

Fixed Term: Until 31st December 2024

Start date: As soon as possible

The governors are seeking to appoint a highly organised Administration Assistant to join our busy and dedicated SEND team. The successful candidate will primarily provide first class administrative support to our SENDCO, as well as being a contact point for the team. We invite applications from suitably qualified motivated and enthusiastic candidates.

About the role

The successful candidate will need:

• Suitable and successful experience of working in a busy office, preferably within a school environment, although training will be given.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to multi-task.
• An ability to work with excellent accuracy, detail and a highly systematic approach.
• Competency in numeracy, literacy and ICT, including Microsoft Word and Excel.
• A high standard of verbal and written communication, typing and inter-personal skills.
• The ability to fit in and work as part of a successful and busy team.
• To recognise the confidentiality of the role.

Responsibilities include the distribution of key reports to teachers and outside agencies, ensuring SEND records are accurate and up to date and supporting the SENDCO with key administrative tasks, including but not limited to Education & Health Care Plans and referrals. To be considered for the role, it is essential that applicants have a warm personality, a welcoming demeanour and a hands on, active and positive approach to all tasks. This role is a temporary role, initially to 31/12/2024.

Westdene Primary School is committed to safe guarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to this post will be subject to a successful enhanced DBS check and acceptable personal references.

Location: Westdene Primary School

Hours: 10 hours, the days on which can be negotiated with the successful candidate

For further information, please contact the school office at Westdene Primary School, Bankside, Brighton, BN1 5GN. Telephone: 01273 916618. E-mail:

Closing date: Midday, Wednesday 6th December

Interview date: Tuesday 12th December

How to apply: Completed application forms accepted by email/post direct to the school.

Website:

Telephone: 01273 916618

Additional information

Work Permits: This role does not meet the requirement for UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) Points-based Immigration System. Successful candidates will need to evidence that they have the Right to Work in the UK.

Company information

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

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The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Brighton & Hove Schools do not accept CV or resume.

Expected salary: £23194 – 23620 per year

Location: Brighton – Hove, East Sussex

Job date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:52:20 GMT

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Job description: SEND Operations Assistant – Temporary

Temporary, Full Time

£12.89 Per hour PAYE

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style:

Please note this is a temporary opportunity for a minimum of 12 weeks.

This is an exciting opportunity to support our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Operations team. Essex County Council has embarked upon a programme of change for provision and services with the ambition to profoundly improve the outcomes and life experience of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).

Our vision is for a SEND system which identifies and assesses need at an earlier stage and which provides appropriate and impactful support without such high dependence on Essex County Council’s statutory services.

These roles will form part of Essex County Council’s (ECC) unique response to the additional demand and provide additional capacity in the team to deliver ECC’s statutory duties and meet timescales.

Job Purpose and Accountabilities

The SEND Operations Assistant provides administration and support to deliver ECC’s statutory duties for SEN assessment, monitoring and review.

The postholder is responsible for the following:

• Maintaining a specified allocation of children and young people (CYP) with existing EHCPs. This will include the carrying out of all statutory processes relevant to each child and young person and their EHCP (annual review, amendment to EHCP, cease EHCP, IPRA,), taking responsibility for the progression of all allocated statutory work such that statutory timescales are met.
• Coordinating and securing school placements for CYP at points of transition and liaising with relevant internal and external partners as appropriate. Ensuring ECC’s Admissions Team are advised of decisions. Co-ordinating the amendments of the EHCP following change of placement.
• Recognising issues around individual CYP (attendance, safeguarding, lack of progress) and alerting senior managers, recommending and/or seeking advice on next steps.
• Prepare and present information relating to the EHCPs within their allocation for submission to various decision-making panels and undertaking any follow-up work identified by the panel meeting; sharing the decisions with parents and partner agencies. Communicating and explaining decisions which are not always positively received both verbally and in writing.
• Representing Essex SEND services by acting as a frontline contact for parents/carers, CYP, schools, settings, and other partner agencies. Recognising where issues need to be escalated. Recognising safeguarding concerns and acting accordingly. Signposting service users to relevant teams where appropriate and taking responsibility for responding directly to queries wherever possible.
• Liaising with other local authorities for CYP who have moved into or are leaving Essex. Ensuring correct paperwork is received and actioned accordingly. Consulting and arranging school placements and arranging appropriate information to enable the amendments of the EHCPs.
• Maintain tracking systems for all students who are at the point of phase transfer each year. Provide support to SEND Operations Partners and SEND Operations Co-ordinators to ensure that statutory processes and timescales are fully complied with and that, where appropriate, EHCP’s are ceased in a timely manner.
• Preparing a chronology/summary about individual CYPs to support ECC’s response to priority work: Members Enquiries, Local Government Ombudsman Enquiries, Corporate Complaints and SEND Tribunals. Involvement in any additional SEND Tribunal work arising; liaising with the Tribunal Teams and consulting and chasing responses from various provisions.
• Sending out the agreed final versions of EHCPs in the specified timescale.
• Organisation and constant prioritisation of workload to manage high volume of incoming work on a daily basis, alerting senior colleagues where statutory obligations are compromised.

The Experience You Will Bring

• Educated to RQF level 2 or equivalent by experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development relating to the LA’s statutory duty relating to CYP with SEND.
• Thorough working knowledge of SEND Code of Practice 2015
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, including an ability to engage positively within difficult conversations.
• Experience of working successfully as part of busy team in a business support or administrative environment.
• Effective time management and prioritisation skills with the ability to manage own workload under pressure and adapt quickly and effectively to changing circumstances/situations.

Why Essex? Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest – Basildon and Harlow – are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

What you should do next

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply via the Working for Essex website.

Please note that Essex County Council has determined that the off-payroll working rules will apply to this assignment and where a worker elects to provide their services through an intermediary (such as a personal services company) then income tax and primary national insurance contributions will be deducted at source from any payments made to the intermediary.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to

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Expected salary: £12.89 per hour

Location: Chelmsford, Essex

Job date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 03:53:34 GMT

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