Special Educational Needs Inclusion Funding (SENIF) Practitioner

Role Responsibility

Term time only - 39 weeks per year

Do you want to help shape the future of Early Years Education?  Do you have a passion for supporting early years children with special educational needs?  If so, this role could be for you, we are looking for a SEN Inclusion Fund Practitioner to join our friendly, dynamic and supportive team.

The SEN Inclusion Fund team are experienced Early Years professionals who work alongside Kent’s maintained, PVI pre-school settings and childminders modelling interventions to help secure better outcomes for Kent’s youngest children with identified additional needs.  The team support early intervention and inclusion, enabling children to make progress and flourish.

The successful candidate will model good practice, supporting the settings to implement personalised plans and the recommendations from professionals.

The practitioner will work predominantly in the Dartford district but could be asked to cover in the wider North Kent Area on occasion. They will need to be able to support the settings in monitoring children’s development by supporting their tracking of children’s progress and identifying the impact that the implementation of the SEN Inclusion Funding has had on the children’s learning.

You will have experience of working with children with differing Special Educational Needs in Early Years settings, a thorough knowledge of child development, and the ability to implement the SEN Code of Practice and develop strategies to enable a setting to meet the educational needs of children with SEN.

You will work with a variety of services from education and health to ensure that pre-school children with the highest levels of special educational needs have their needs meet within mainstream settings.

The practitioner will work closely with the Early Years Specialist Teachers and Specialist Intervention Managers to deliver the special educational needs provision required to ensure the children make appropriate educational progress through the SENIF Offer.

You will be educated to NVQ level 3 in Childcare or equivalent appropriate qualification (including GCSE Mathematics & English grade 4 to 9).  Early Years SENCo training will have also been undertaken. 

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

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.

Contact Details

For further information on this role, please contact Debra James, 03000 418862 

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

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.