SEND Case Manager Job Preston area,England UK,Child Care/Nanny

Vulnerable children and young people are safe from harm and build resilience.

Children and young people achieve their full potential in education, learning and future employment.

Children and young people enjoy heathy lifestyles and know how to help others.

Children, young people and families have a voice in shaping the support they receive.

Children and young people live in Lancashire where they can enjoy a good quality of life, be happy and want to stay.

To deliver these objectives it will be necessary for the post holder:

To ensure the delivery of services for children and young people with SEND and their families at a strategic and operational level is aligned with the 'Our vision for SEND in Lancashire' agreement.

To work in collaboration with children, young people, their families, education providers and other stakeholders to ensure the best possible outcomes for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities across the local area.

To support the council to fulfil its statutory duties in relation to children and young people with special educational needs, ensuring that within an allocated caseload, all assessments and education, health and care plans are of the highest possible quality and that all plans and processes meet statutory requirements and timescales. Casework is likely to include complex work that could involve tribunal work and/or multi-agency work with higher tier adult, social care and/or health services.

To work with team managers to identify early solutions to complex issues raised by service users.

To question proactively and/or challenge organisations who work with and support children and young people who have special educational needs or disabilities, in order to address multiple and often conflicting priorities.

To support an inclusive approach to special educational needs in Lancashire.

To support specific activities that address the priorities of the service and local area.

To provide technical reference in terms of specific service delivery areas of improvement.

To support daily supervision for a small team of professionals or a larger team of paraprofessionals.

Accountabilities/Responsibilities

The post holder will be required to manage a large and complex caseload of children and young people to ensure that the duties of the Authority are carried out in relation to:

All children and young people up to the age of 25 years in the statutory assessment, planning and preparing the Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan.
Preparing evidence and presenting an objective view to inform decision making for children and young people
Maintaining and reviewing EHC plans
Undertaking the reassessment of an EHC plan in relation to a child or young person's needs
Ceasing an EHC plan
Compliance with all statutory timescales and other performance indicators to ensure they are adhered to.

In addition the post holder will be required:

To lead (chair as appropriate) specific meetings in relation to children and young people with SEND, including but not exhaustive of meetings associate with statutory assessment, review processes and mediation.
To prepare, manage and represent the Authority at First-tier Tribunal (SEND) hearings. As part of this task management, the SEND Case Manager provides technical expertise to advise and support witnesses.
To attend and contribute to Area and County Panels and plan meetings as required.
To attend statutory multi-agency meetings.
To fulfil the role of lead officer for an identified number of schools or specific groups of pupils.
To support specific identified tasks across different service areas.
To contribute to County wide SEND team initiatives which shape and influence service planning.
To ensure that all relevant issues relating to key stage transitions or transition from children to adults' services of children and young people with education, health and care plans are being met and any issues brought to the attention of the SEND Team Manager or Inclusion Transitions Coordinator.
To analyse and prepare transport appeals to enable the student support panel to make an informed decision.

Effective Processes

The post holder will be required:

To complete all work within statutory timescales.
To make effective use of the monitoring and tracking systems that are in place.
To complete, monitor and review the arrangements for making provision within all settings including the independent and non-maintained sector.
To ensure that data is accurate, complete and up to date.

Communication skills and information sharing

The post holder will be required:

To provide children and young people and/or their families with the information they need to participate in making decisions about their special educational needs and the provision required and the support they need.
To communicate regularly with service users and other stakeholders including those working in education, health and care services to provide information, advice and guidance by interpreting established procedures, using…