SENDIASS Advisor

An exciting opportunity is available to join a growing team of friendly and well-respected professionals who are committed to ensuring parent carers and young people with SEND have their voices heard and receive accurate and helpful information and advice.

SENDIASS Gloucestershire is a specialist service offering free, impartial, confidential information, advice and support on matters around SEND. The Service is offered to parent carers of children with SEND (0-25 years) and young people aged between 16 and 25 years old to help them play an active and informed role in supporting their child or the young person's education.

To be successful you will need to have good organisational skills, be enthusiastic and self-motivated. These roles involve directly working with parent carers to provide impartial information, advice and support in relation to their child with SEND. The successful applicants will have experience of engaging and working with parent carers and be fully aware of the challenges that parent carers face. Knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice is essential.

Successful applicants will be required to complete the IPSEA Level 1 Legal Training as part of the role and work towards IPSEA Level 3, ideally within 12 months of starting the role., 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.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

Flexible and agile working opportunities

25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service

An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)

Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family

Career development and qualification opportunities

Supportive and positive working environment with regular supervision

Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)

Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone

An in-house Occupational Health service

These posts are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.