SEND – Service Manager

SEND – Service Manager
Location: North West
Pay rate:  £450 per day

Our client is looking for a SEND – Service Manager for the operational delivery for the Statutory Assessment and associated SEND processes ensuring that the LA meets its statutory responsibilities. Support the LA in meeting the requirements of the Children and Families Act 2014 and the SEND code of Practice 2015.
In this role you will make a difference and will be able to drive improvement in practice to ensure we have a person-centred approach, which improves communication with families, settings and other partners and stakeholders.

The successful candidate will have experience in managing assessment and annual review teams, as well as tribunal and SEND finance teams. They will be able to provide calm and purposeful leadership to ensure our statutory duties are undertaken and drive the improvement in our decision making, processing of EHHNA and annual reviews. This will include the monitoring of performance data for key areas of the team and reviewing process and system as needed. This candidate will work with our Practice Development Team, SEND Sufficiency team, education settings (phase leads) social care and health colleagues as well as Bristol Parent Carer Forum.
The successful candidate will be able to support in the reporting on key data corporately and to the DfE as well as support in the work for committee reports.

Perfect candidate will be:
 

• Experience of and evidence of success in leading improvements in local SEND systems.
• Knowledge of SEND Code of Practice and related local authority statutory responsibilities.
• Experience of working with schools and settings.
• Senior leadership experience within a local authority setting and/or experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams.
• Knowledge and understanding of the current financial pressures faced by education settings and local authorities.
• Excellent analytical skills including creating detailed reports. Ability to think strategically, problem solve and provide innovative solutions at pace.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, with proven ability to communicate effectively to a wide range of audiences both horizontally and vertically, financial and non-financial, throughout the organisation. Ability to quickly build rapport and trust with clients and colleagues.

 
In this role you will:
 
Key responsibilities

• Responsible for the effective management and development of the SEND team in the provision of identification of needs, capacity of needs across the city, and in development of reducing demand/answering the demand on specialist sufficiency places.
• Has a key role in supporting access to and availability of appropriate education provision for a range of children and young people with special needs and will provide SEND expertise and input into service improvement projects.
• Collate and report on the number of children and young people awaiting specialist places. Scrutinise the data, ensuring it is accurate, and useful for use in operational and strategic reporting and discussions concerning sufficiency for SEND.

 
Key deliverables

• Leadership of the SEND team in line with the SEND strategic priorities (Bristol SEND and Inclusion Strategy)
• Delivery of changes to and formalisation of new practice development.
• Implementation of standard operating procedures and management of team managers to ensure data accuracy and financial compliance.
• Other appropriate deliverables to be determined following outcome of reviews.
• Support the improvement in the KPI set both corporate and DfE.
• Work to build and develop the partnerships with all stakeholders.

 
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-
Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to, easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives, ongoing compliance managed for you, prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

This role is ideally located for those travelling from;  Blackburn, Fulwood, Rawtenstall, Blackpool, Morecombe, Darwin, Crosby, Chorley, Clitheroe, Oswaldtwistle, Burnley, Bootle, Lancaster, Middleton, Leigh, Ormskirk, Skelmersdale, Leyland, Accrington, Barrow, Wigan, St Helens, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Widnes, Warrington, Wirral, Huyton, Wallasey, Wigan, St Helens, Manchester, Rochdale, Oldham, , Liverpool, Skelmersdale, Wigan, Warrington, Bolton, Altrincham, Cheadle, Stockport, St Helens, Widnes, Ashton under Lyme, Stretford, Bury, Leigh, Preston.

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, Children Looked After, MASH, Safeguarding, Duty & Assessment,  Children in Need, Child protection,  Localities, EHCP, children in care, Children’s Social Work, SEND, Children with Disabilities, Fostering,  Connected Persons, youth justice practitioner,  Adult Social Work, Long Term, Mental Health,  Hospital Discharge,   Homeless Intervention, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.

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