SEN Therapies Case Coordinator

Role Responsibility

The KCC SEN Therapies team is looking for a Case Coordinator to join a busy and dynamic team. The post holder will work within the SEN Therapies team with support and management from Leads in the team. The SEN Therapies team comprises of Leads for Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language therapy and a Specialist teacher who will be supported by two case coordinator posts. 

The role requires collaborative working with parents, schools and setting and SEND service colleagues to establish, implement and maintain additional therapy arrangements for children and young people with SEND. This includes extracting the requirements of provision as set out in the Education Health Care Plan and reports.  

The role also includes outcomes focused approaches to monitoring and quality evaluation of existing arrangements. This involves working with colleagues and partner providers to monitor progress of the children and young people.

The post holder is required to maintain administrative processes for specialist case coordination. This is required in relation to the whole scope of the SEN therapies team input and communications. The work may involve collaboration with a range of SEND service colleagues across all areas of Kent. Co-production with stakeholders is vital to enhance joint commissioning of therapy services at a county level. This includes using solutions focused approach for provision advice, sourcing therapy arrangements and budget focused systems.

 We are looking for someone to join a growing team, who will bring enthusiasm and help contribute to the development within the team. Areas of interest and specific skills for project related contributions. This needs to be someone who is well organised, a sophisticated communicator and confident with IT. Has an interest or previous experience in working in health, social care and/or education and will be able to build and maintain strong professional relationships.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

The post will be based at The Old Railway School in Ashford and on occasion, will be able to travel across Kent.

We welcome and encourage enquiries for more information about this post and are happy to arrange an informal visit (where possible). Please contact Becky Guntrip, Information Officer KM CAT Service on 07813 393036 or 01233 629859 rebecca.guntrip@kent.gov.uk  

Interviews likely to be: Thursday 27th May 2021

Contact Details

For further information on this role please contact Becky Guntrip, Information Officer KM CAT Service on 07813 393036 or 01233 629859 or email rebecca.guntrip@kent.gov.uk  

About the Company

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.