SEN Case Officer

The post holder is responsible for development and maintenance of Education Health and Care Plans from initial application and assessment to the annual review process. The SEND Case Officer will work with families of children with Special Needs and Disability in a highly person-centred relational approach, and coordinate service provision across education, health and care to ensure holistic delivery plan for individual child and family.

To work collaboratively with families, schools and other key partners agencies for individual children and young people with SEND to ensure children and young people are educated and are in receipt of appropriate provision that is inline with their holistic needs. The post holder will work closely with and facilitate engagement with educational settings and relevant practitioners to support, advise and monitor the local offer and to work with schools on individual cases as needed. SEND Case Officer's should take a reflective approach to their practice in order to drive improvement. SEND Case Officers are part of a graduated response and should work with a team around the child approach. Timeliness of planning, quality of assessments and plans and impact of annual reviews will be important measures of success. The use of data and feedback by the post holder should also drive quality improvements.

The SEND Case Officer is responsible for managing a case load of children and young people with SEND, acting as a key point of contact. this includes engagement with families, children, young people, schools, colleagues and other partners where a statutory assessment request has been made or responding to SEND queries. The post holder will be required to travel to and attend meetings at education settings across Camden and neighbouring boroughs. The post holder should undertake their work with due regard to the equitable use of resources and to drive the sustainability of SEND services.