SEND Engagement & Info Develop Officer

The SEND Quality and Engagement Team performs an exciting and important role in helping ensure that engagement and co-production is at the heart of our local offer of services for children, young people with SEND and their families in Gloucestershire., As a SEND Engagement and Information Development Officer, you will enjoy working with people, be creative and with a talent for digital communication and providing information that engages and makes a difference to families with SEND. This will be achieved through a variety of direct engagement, content creation and development of information resources, such as annual surveys, monthly publications of the Families in Partnership Newsletter, social media, annual reporting of 'you said, we did' Glosfamilies Directory | Have Your Say and the quality assurance process of the Local Offer. This role is central to the Quality, Engagement and Co-production Service, working on behalf of Gloucestershire's Local Area Partnership in collaboration with parent carers and teams within Gloucestershire County Council, Education providers, Health and the Voluntary and Community sector.

If you are someone with a passion for communication and collaboration (co-production), who values hearing from parent carers and young people with SEND and working with different people to develop information that is helpful, relevant and easy to follow then this might be the role for you!,

• Have a sound understanding of SEND and additional needs
• Enjoy working with people
• Be an effective communicator
• Be an active listener
• Creative and collaborative in your approach
• Be adaptive and flexible with a can-do attitude
• A team player, We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire's diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English. Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.