SEND Provision Coordinator
Posted Today by Guidant Global
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Stevenage
Summary: The SEND Provision Coordinator role involves coordinating support for children educated outside traditional settings, ensuring appropriate provisions in EHC plans, and managing multi-agency teams for complex cases. The position requires a detail-oriented problem solver who can effectively communicate with families and schools about statutory SEND processes. The role is fast-paced and aims to meet the needs of children while championing local solutions. It is a challenging yet rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on children's lives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the named coordinator for children educated outside traditional educational establishments.
- Ensure provisions in EHC plans are appropriate and secure necessary support packages.
- Facilitate multi-agency teams to manage complex arrangements for children.
- Support families and schools in understanding statutory SEND processes and local support offers.
- Attend multi-agency meetings to discuss needs and provision.
- Write or amend EHC plans focusing on commissioning and monitoring appropriate provision.
Key Skills:
- Educated to A level or equivalent as a minimum.
- Excellent knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice and the Children and Families Act 2014.
- Excellent communication skills.
- High level of literacy for case recording and quality EHC plans.
- Experience in brokering support packages and working with schools on SEND provision (desirable).
- Experience in commissioning providers and negotiating with professionals (desirable).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Stevenage
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Title: SEND Provision Coordinator
Location: Based at either Apsley or Stevenage, with travel across areas within Hertfordshire - SG1 2FQ
Hours: 37 per week, full time
Contract: 3 months
The role
We are looking for a Provisions Co-ordinator to be the named coordinator for children and people who are educated outside of traditional educational establishments, ensuring that the provision in the EHC plan is appropriate to the type of setting, that we are brokering and securing appropriate packages of support, and that we are pulling together multi-agency teams to manage complex arrangements for children and people where required.
This is a fast paced role, ideal if you are a creative problem solver who loves to get into the detail of a case in order to ensure we're meeting needs.
You will support families and schools to understand statutory processes for SEND and our local offer of support. This will include attending multi-agency meetings to discuss needs and provision; writing or amending EHC plans with a focus on commissioning and monitoring of appropriate provision.
About you
Essential
- You will be educated to A level or equivalent as a minimum
- An excellent knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice and the Children and Families Act 2014.
- Excellent communication skills
- High level of literacy to support good case recording and quality EHC plans
Desirable
- You'll also benefit from experience of brokering packages of support, working with schools to deliver SEND provision, or experience of coproduction with parents.
- Experience of commissioning providers, negotiating with professionals across various disciplines, implementing packages of alternative support, and working on multiple priorities at once would be beneficial for this role.
This is a challenging but rewarding role, bringing together professionals and families to ensure that statutory obligations are met whilst keeping the child at the centre. It requires resilience, a drive for ambitious outcomes for children, and the ability to champion local solutions.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
