About This Role
This role involves providing proactive, responsive, and customer-focused casework management for children, young people, and their families with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND). The caseworker coordinates, facilitates, and processes the statutory Education Health and Care (EHC) process, ensuring good multi-agency working and effective co-production with families and professionals.
Responsibilities
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people, coordinating support throughout the SEND process to ensure good outcomes and progressing safeguarding concerns in line with policy and procedure
- Manage a defined EHC caseload, facilitating and coordinating the EHC assessment and review process for children and young people (0–25-year-olds) within statutory timescales, including planning for a young person’s transition to adult life
- Work in partnership with children, young people, families, and professional agencies from education, health, social care, and the third sector, constructing initial drafts to producing final EHCPs which are led by the child or young person’s needs to achieve stated objectives and aspirations
- Agree amendments to plans against evidenced changes as part of the review process and, where indicated, identify if a plan should be discontinued
- Alert management through supervision processes to any issues that could impact on the service or personal performance
- Work in partnership with parents and ensure that children, young people, and their families are involved in the EHC process
- Coordinate, facilitate, and process the statutory Education Health and Care (EHC) process for all agreed EHC assessments
- Liaise and interface throughout with families, young people, and professionals as required to ensure and maintain good multi-agency working
- Facilitate and coordinate the statutory EHC annual review process
- Draft statutory Education Health & Care plans (EHCP) for children and young people as a result of EHC needs assessments or annual review amendments
- Ensure that children and young people have appropriate support, resources, and placements in schools or other educational settings to enable them to achieve positive learning and developmental outcomes
- Facilitate and engage in partnership working to agree solutions to meet the needs of children and young people with SEND in a creative and outcome-focused way
- Ensure effective co-production, co-planning, and collaborative working takes place with parents, young people, and other professionals
- Ensure effective arrangements are in place for young adults with high needs to transition into adulthood
- Maintain electronic and paper records in accordance with service standards, ensuring accurate case recording of all aspects of the EHC process
- Work city-wide, under pressure, managing conflicting priorities within tight timescales and speedily making decisions on complex and challenging cases