£9 - £10.15 Per hour
Health Care Assistant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- You will provide direct case management for the most complex cases, as determined by the Team Manager. You will oversee and support your Educational and Health Care Plan coordinators to prepare and present cases at the Multiagency Resourcing Panel
- You will build an oversight of the schools, children and young people in your cluster, maintaining close links with cluster leads, headteachers and service managers. You will ensure that you have an ongoing knowledge of the most vulnerable children in your cluster, liaising with appropriate professionals and service leads.
- You will oversee KPIs for your cluster, reporting to the Team Manager and senior managers on a regular basis.
- You will lead on the preparation of tribunal cases, seeking resolution through strong case management and liaison with parents and their legal representatives to reach agreement where possible prior to hearing.
- You will represent the Local Authority as the expert witness, applying your specialist legal knowledge in order to put your carefully researched case to the judge.
- During the tribunal hearing you will be responsible for decision making that will have significant financial implications for budgets normally held by senior managers.
- You will represent the SEND service and strategic and cross-agency developments groups, providing a key link for agencies/teams such as parent carer forums, virtual school, finance, admissions and alternative provision schools.
- You will participate in the cycle of regular audits of Educational and Health Care Plans, adhering to the approved Quality Assurance Framework to support continuous improvement in the quality of plans, ensuring that learning from the audit process is embedded within your team and reflected in future plans.
- You may be required to deputise (rota basis) for the Team Manager as necessary, for example chairing multiagency panels, making decisions on special school placements and allocation of funding.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- You will have a degree level qualification or equivalent e.g. NVQ level 4 or significant relevant practical experience in the area.
- You will be able to demonstrate management or supervisory ability and success in a similar work environment, backed by evidence of appropriate specialist knowledge.
- You will have experience of, and the ability to supervise, motivate and develop a team together experience in dealing with competing issues and identifying priorities.
- You will have proven high-level communication, influencing and negotiating skills together with good analytical and problem-solving skills.
- You will demonstrate detailed operational knowledge of IT systems such as Mosaic, Capita, Excel or similar.
Reference no: 28646