Job Title: SEND EHC Coordinator
Location: Hemel Hempstead / Stevenagge
Starting Salary: £34,434 pa with the opportunity to progress to £37,280 per annum
Hours: 37 per week
Contract: Permanent
Things are changing in SEND for Hertfordshire County Council. We are making SEND everyone’s business.
Do you want to make a positive impact and be part of that change? We’re continuing to invest in our statutory SEND workforce.
The Education Health & Care Coordinator (EHC Coordinator) role is highly process-driven. The role involves managing and processing EHC plans within a complex legal framework to tight timescales. It involves implementing legal requirements as part of a meticulous review of documents, then creating, reviewing and amending plans. Whilst the role does involve communication and ongoing dialogue with practitioners, parents and carers, this is primarily related to statutory processes. The role involves virtually no direct interaction with children or young people.
Being an EHC Coordinator, you’ll be delivering casework that coordinates professionals across education, health and care as well as the family, to deliver EHC assessments, plans and reviews to time and high quality, with a focus on improving outcomes for children and young people. This includes:
- Developing the highest standards of achievement and inclusion for children and young people with SEN through effective casework within the policy and budget framework of the Council, ensuring a focus on preparing for adulthood from the earliest ages.
- Taking responsibility for the preparation of information for parents, children, young people and schools, which provides the right information at the appropriate time, in a simple to use way, which engages partners in understanding what our responsibility is to children, families and schools.
- Managing and processing statutory casework within legal and internal timelines
- Working collaboratively with professionals across education, health and care services
- Ensuring effective case management, integrated working practice and successful outcomes for children.
- Participating in resource decisions, taking the lead where appropriate, for example decision making processes relating to whether or not assessment or plans are written, or whether specialist provision is agreed, ensuring that resource decisions are in line with local authority policies, procedures and eligibility criteria. This could include chairing or attending panel meetings.
- Participating, as required, in a range of meetings with other professionals andparents/carers in relation to individual children with complex needs, including representing Children’s Services at annual review, chairing reviews, attending and chairing multi-agency meetings as appropriate.
- Contributing to the development of policy, procedures and provision for children with SEN children’s needs, which includes maintaining an up-to-date knowledge relating to SEN casework, changes to national legislation and departmental policies, and supporting induction/training and support to all team members.
- Inputting and maintaining accurate and comprehensive database records as required and participate in the Local Authority’s systems for monitoring and quality assurance for children and young people known to the EHC assessment and review team.
EHC coordinators will be aligned to one of several functional teams supporting either assessment processes, review processes or resolution and reconciliation processes.
We have opportunities for you to specialise in:
- School Age SEND (based in Apsley): responsible for children and young people age 5 – 19 with an EHCP who attend a school
- Services for Young People: responsible for young people age 16 and over with an EHCP: who attend a college (or other further education settings), who are completing an apprenticeship, are in training or a supported internship or who are not in education, employment or training. Also support care leavers age 18 and over with an EHCP
Essential:
- Knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice and the Children and Families Act 2014.
- Educated to A level or equivalent
- Previous experience working in schools to deliver SEND provision or experience with other stakeholders including parents, education, care and health
- Excellent communication skills
- The ability to work to deadlines and under pressure
- High level of literacy to support good case recording and quality EHC plans.
- Hold a current driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work
Desirable:
- Previous experience with casework management
This job role is within the Health and Social Care Family, level HSC9 job profile. Please locate this via: Job profiles – Health and social care
As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.
Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.
Driving required
You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.
English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.
