Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley, Middlesex HA9 0FJ (Hybrid)
Temporary, Full time
Enhanced DBS check required
£43,299 - £46,512 p.a. inc. London weighting
36 hours
The council is pursuing a far-reaching transformation agenda that better meets the needs of our community so it is an exciting time to join us.
The Post
You will be responsible for ensuring that the children and young people who you are working with are properly supported in education. You will, in consultation with other stakeholders, ensure appropriate support and access to resources for these children and young people and to ensure the delivery of a high quality, responsive and efficient service.
The post requires flexibility, tremendous drive and an ambition to continuously assess and find creative ways to support children, and young people. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the support offered is bespoke and person centred.
The role also includes working closely with families and carers to enable individuals to better support their children and young person’s attendance in school and develop social and life skills that will enable them to thrive in education, and to be aspirational.
Whilst we value experience, we need you to be committed to providing an outstanding service to children and young people with an EHCP. You will need to demonstrate flexibility, enthusiasm, empathy, initiative, tenacity and resilience, for what is likely to be a very demanding but hugely rewarding post. You will be required to demonstrate that you are able to perform in a vibrant and sometimes demanding environment whilst being able to identify issues and work either alone, or, with others, to find solutions to education issues linked to the cohort of children you will be working with.
Knowledge and experience of supporting children and young people’s with an EHCP is essential for this role. You will be responsible for providing good quality support to your cohort of children and young people and to ensure support is delivered in a safe, timely and appropriate manner. You will need to ensure all records and files are maintained to a high standard. The person in this post will be accountable for the use and safekeeping of data in accordance with GDPR regulations.
As well as being a fair and supportive team member, you will need to demonstrate you are able to work flexibly in what is a diverse, vibrant and supportive multicultural team.
- Minimum Level 3 qualification in a relevant area of work, SEND, Social Work, Education.
- Ability to work flexibly in a vibrant and changing environment
- Significant proven experience of working with children and/or families
- You will be organised and resourceful
- Ability to conduct assessments, use the data to initiate programmes of support and to then be able to evaluate outcomes
- Willingness to be a team player
- Proactive and responsive as dictated by the circumstances
Additional Information
If you are interested in applying for this job, please start by clicking the "Apply Now" button below. You must provide a supporting statement as part of your application that clearly shows how you meet the criteria on the Person Specification. We will accept a CV in support of your application, however, you should still provide a supporting statement.
Brent Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this and therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community. We positively encourage all applicants to self-identify their characteristics in the diversity survey section in the application.