Job Description
The Service & Team:
Cornwall Council’s Children and Family Services are committed to ensuring every child and young person receives the support they need to thrive. The Statutory SEND Service plays a vital role in delivering high-quality, person-centred support for children and young people with EHC plans.
The Role
The role holder will provide a professional service to identify and assess the needs of children where there is concern in relation to school attendance, behaviour, education outcomes and their general welfare. To ensure that schools, children and parents/carers have relevant information around engagement with education and attendance. Responsibilities include working with vulnerable groups such as pupils excluded from or at risk of exclusion from school.
This role will monitor the attendance in mainstream, specialist settings and other education settings and will report to managers regarding the levels of attendance.
The successful candidate will innovate, develop, improve and implement robust systems and procedures, including audit and assessment tools to identify, monitor and track attendance patterns and trends within SEND as directed by your manager.
Support meetings are carried out on a regular basis with schools allocated and contribute towards development of policies and protocols relating to attendance, with a focus on pupils who are persistently absent and severely absent.
Liaison with other teams and services will be regular, and will contribute to policy and procedural development and delivery including but not limited to Fair Access, School Attendance, Elective Home Education, Children Missing Education, Managed Moves, Exclusions, Alternative Provision, EOTAS and Reduced Timetables.
This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
What You’ll Need To Succeed
- Experience in a relevant education, health or social care setting.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Confidence in developing effective working relationships across a range of departments.
- Knowledge of the SEND code of Practice (0-25), and associated regulations.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What You’ll Get In Return
- A competitive salary and access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Generous annual leave and flexible working arrangements.
- Ongoing professional development and support for further qualifications.
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.
Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include
- 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.
Additional Information
The full role profile is attached here
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Les Hall –
[email protected]Application Process
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.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact
[email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application
