Education Health Care Plan Assistant
Lambeth Council
Job Title : Education Health Care Plan Assistant.
Job Category : Education.
Location : Lambeth Town Hall, London Borough of Lambeth.
Hours Per Week : 35.00.
Start Date : Immediate Start.
Start Time : 09:00.
End Time : 17:00.
Salary: £14.54 per hour.
To provide comprehensive support to the EHC Plan Co-ordinators, maintaining accurate, efficient and effective administrative systems and records.
To provide effective administrative support to enable the effective and efficient initiation, assessment and review of children with Special Educational Needs, ensuring that procedures and timescales are fully compliant with both statutory and locally derived procedures.
Support a person centred, outcome focused multi agency approach to assessment, planning and review, ensuring that children, young people and parents are treated as equal partners in the assessment and planning process.
Guiding settings and parents to the right provision at SEN Support level. Directing them to the Local Offer to find more information on the services available.
Supporting settings and parents to provide the right information if an EHC needs assessment request is made.
Experience
Experience in this area of work gained by either education (degree or equivalent) or through a minimum of 3 years experience
Experience of working and liaising with parents, carers and other agencies in a multi-disciplinary setting
Experience of managing conflicting demands and priorities, working to tight timescales
Experience of producing reports for a variety of complex audiences
Experience of managing complaints and resolving disagreements.
Experience of chairing meetings
Knowledge
Detailed Knowledge of legislation related to Special Educational Needs and other relevant legislation relation to children and young people with SEN.
Knowledge and understanding of the role of different agencies in this area of work in providing services related to the statutory assessment procedure and meeting the educational need of SEN pupils and young people.
Knowledge of issues relating to support to pupils with SEN, which will enable the post holder to resolve day to day operational issues.
Working knowledge of standard IT packages
Knowledge of issues relating to funding arrangements for pupils with SEN placed in a variety of settings
Job Features
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