SEND Advisor

The Service & Team

The SEND Support Service is a friendly, innovative, multi-agency team which has children and young people at the centre of everything we do. We work with children and young people from 0-25 years who have a wide range of Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND). We work with educational settings in a range of different ways to support our learners to grow and develop;

some of the teams work with individuals.

We place a high value on in-house and external CPD focused on specialisms and broader SEND issues.

This post is a fixed term (12 month) full-time contract (37 hours per week) for an enthusiastic, qualified and experienced teacher. The main focus of the work is eating disorders and body dysmorphia and it will largely be based in the East and Mid areas of the county although travel to other areas may be necessary.

You will work alongside the existing SEND Advisor for SEMH, delivering high quality training packages and strategic advice to educational settings. You will work with a wide range of professionals from a number of different agencies including health and social care. As the role is to strengthen specific SEMH strategies and provision at a whole-setting level, work with individuals will not be part of the position.

As the SEND Advisors are part of the wider SEND Support Services, you would be expected to be part of our programme of training on broader SEND issues such as EHC Needs Assessments or SENDCo induction.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

This is a 37 hours per week role (full-time), Monday to Friday. It is a fixed term (12 month) contract.

If you are a qualified and experienced teacher who has an interest in and experience of working with learners with SEMH needs then this may be the role for you! Recent, up-to-date, knowledge and/or experience of identifying and supporting learners with eating disorders and/or body dysmorphia and issues related to these will be of benefit to the role.

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions.
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme.
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here:

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Theresa Maunder - the or Nicky Garge -

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as 'Application' on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.

Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process.

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