Title: Lead for SEND
Grade: SM1
Salary: £50,183 - £58,379 per annum pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Location: Countywide. The service very much promotes flexible working with the ability to work remotely from other bases, as well as working from home. We provide exceptional technology and all the equipment to support home-based working, to ensure we provide the best service possible.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced SEN professional to take up post as Lead for SEND in North Yorkshire County Council. This is a permanent full-time post. This post involves playing a leading role in leading performance and practice improvement across the SEND Casework Team, and embedding robust quality assurance processes to drive continuous improvement.
The key deliverables within this role are:
· Establishing strong collaborative approaches across all stakeholders to transform approaches in inclusions and ensuring a strong culture of inclusion and resilience in meeting the needs of children and young people with additional needs.
· Ensuring compliance and high quality performance and practice in terms of SEND, ensuring robust planning for further development to improve outcomes.
· Ensuring the SEND commissioned services are delivered within required standards and provide high quality and cost effective provision for children and young people.
This is a county-wide post, and the post-holder will be working in a hybrid model with the requirement to attend in-person meetings on a regular basis at different locations across the county.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Anna Gray (Head of SEND) on Anna.Gray@northyorks.gov.uk
Key Dates
Closing Dates: Sunday 14th august 2022
Interview Dates: TBC
Key Documents
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