Project Lead - SEND Systems and High Needs Review

As the project's lead officer you will be responsible for the overall leadership of the project and the delivery team. You and your team will work alongside other teams and services to accomplish the project's objectives which are:

• Review and embed robust and consistent decision-making processes around the statutory assessment and review process for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities
• Support the review and change processes associated with improved transition pathways to ensure children and young people with SEND get the right support, in the right place and the right time
• Design, test and deploy digitised Descriptors of Needs for use by families and professionals
• Review, redesign, test and deploy Newcastle's Local Offer to help families and professions navigate the services and support that they are able to access more effectively
• Actively support all mainstream schools in implementing the Newcastle Inclusion Quality Framework
• Design and embed an easy-to-use way for children, young people, their families and professionals to get answers to their questions quickly.
Further background may be found in the final report produced by iMPOWER following five months of working with stakeholders in the city. The final report can be accessed on the Newcastle Support Directory or by emailing the recruiting manager. To apply for this role, you will need to be confident, customer focussed, able to communicate with a wide and varied audience and have a flexible approach to work, meeting challenging deadlines. If this sounds like a job for you, please keep reading and look at the Job Description and Person Specification provided. The City Council offers a range of opportunities for training and development to support you to achieve the best outcomes for yourself and the people we support. The wide range of services provided across the Directorate and the Council means that there are always opportunities to develop and grow during your careers with the Council.

Newcastle City Council offers you an exciting opportunity to work in a vibrant city with proactive and committed people who have a genuine desire and motivation to support positive outcomes for the residents of Newcastle, striving to achieve the values of being Proud, Fair and Ambitious. What do we offer? As an employee of NCC, you will have access to:
• a competitive salary
• access to Local Government pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 29 days after 5 years service in addition to Bank Holidays, with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Family Supportive Policies
• a bespoke induction
• agile working, enabling both home working and office-based working
• a generous Flexi Scheme
• access to Occupational Health, Mindfulness sessions and other wellbeing initiatives
• access to various salary sacrifice schemes - covering cars, white electrical goods and tax efficient saving contributions towards your pension
• discounted travel passes.