EHC Co-ordinator Pre 16

Nottinghamshire ICDS, Statutory EHC Assessment Service is a county wide service with responsibility for carrying out the statutory functions of Education Health Care Needs Assessments (EHCNA) and maintaining all Education health and Care Plans (EHCPs) that are issued for Nottinghamshire children and young people.

The service is split into two teams, with one team responsible for Pre-16 and the other with responsibility for Post 16.

We are currently looking to recruit an EHC Coordinator to the Pre16 team to help us to continue our SEND improvement journey, and to play a central role in achieving positive outcomes for children and young people with SEND in Nottinghamshire.

You will be required to:

• Have a strong working knowledge of the Children & Families Act 2014, the Special educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014, the SEN Code 2015 and the Care Act.
• Hold and manage a Caseload of children and/or young people with EHCP’s.
• Co-ordinate the statutory EHCNA process for Children & Young People (CYP) with SEND and have a detailed knowledge of the timescales within the process.
• Work in co-production with parents and CYP to ensure their views and voice are represented in all documents
• Have a good understanding of the Preparing for Adulthood outcomes and ensure this is reflected in both your work with young people and within their EHCP’s
• Write high quality EHC plans, ensuring that the CYP’s views and aspirations are reflected and that outcomes are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timebound).
• Have good understanding of the Nottinghamshire graduated response to supporting children and young people with SEND, including those services who provide support at ‘SEN Support’ level
• Manage the communications and expectations of families whose children or young people have SEND in relation to support and services that are available through the Local offer.
• Facilitate multi-agency meetings to agree the content of new or reviewed Education, Health & Care Plans as well as where it has been agreed that an education placement may be at risk.
• Develop strong links with Education, Health & Care colleagues.
• Join a well-established locality-based team, developing locality links and relationships with others.
• Have good literacy & I.T skills and a working knowledge of MOSAIC case management system would be beneficial.

We are looking for highly motivated resilient workers with the ability to work under pressure.

A team player, you will need to demonstrate your enthusiasm to improve services for disabled children, young people and be able to organise and manage your work within set statutory timescales.

You will have high level skills in communication and negotiation, with experience in working effectively with disabled children/young people and their parents/carers, as well as a range of Education, Health & Social Care agencies and professionals.

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