SEND Team Manager - Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole.
Pay Rate - £640.20 per day. 

The purpose of the role is to improve the quality of life for the people of Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole by ensuring that children and young people with high-level special educational needs and disabilities have their needs assessed so that they receive the right support at the right school or college to meet those needs.    

Job Overview  

To manage a team to ensure the effective delivery of high- quality practice, which delivers positive outcomes for vulnerable children.
The nature of management includes high quality supervision to team members which strengthens practice and ensures the team are supported to deliver consistency in accordance with legislation and good practice models.
To lead the co-ordination and delivery of SEND statutory processes for BCP, ensuring compliance with regulations; tactical and strategic application of the regulations in order to secure outcomes compatible with the legal guidance and the council's performance targets; robust decision making; rigorous analysis and synthesis of written information.
To promote local and national policies on inclusion, taking specific account of local initiatives, e.g. reduction in Out of Authority and/or independent sector placements.
To work with managers and professionals in other services to ensure effective collaborative planning and the organisation of structured sets of arrangements, especially at times of transition between stages of education, for example for preschool children and those moving from school to Post 16 and/or Post 19 provision.
Support and develop the delivery of assessment, preventative interventions, and statutory processes related to LA provision for children and young people aged 0-25 with high level SEND, promoting local and national policies on inclusion.
Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of changing caselaw, and legal change in SEND; supporting the production and updating of written guidance and procedures relating to statutory assessment and decision making.  Specific Qualifications and Experience

Member of a professional body, Basic DBS check
Must be able to travel, using public or other forms of transport where they are viable, or by holding a valid UK driving licence with access to own or pool car.
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