SEND Service Improvement Assistant

You will work as part of a small project team of four full-time colleagues. You will be based within the Children and Families directorate of the Council, specifically working alongside teams and services that help schools and other education settings. This is an exciting project for two years to develop and deliver transformed systems that support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities to get the very best from their educational experiences, in a cost-effective way. What about the Role? As the project's Service Improvement Assistant, you will support to the project team in delivering specific, time sensitive projects. You and the project 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 here., If you require any assistance completing this application please visit Newcastle Work & Thrive (https://www.workandthrivenewcastle.org.uk/) and speak to an advisor. Supporting documents JD - Service Improvement Assistant.pdf (66.11 KB) PS - Service Improvement Assistant.pdf (62.13 KB) Recruitment Pack (Standalone).pdf (1.91 MB)

Are passionate about supporting services to improve outcomes for children and young people who have special educational needs and/or disabilities. Are highly organised, can work on their own initiative and be able to manage and prioritise their workload within a fast-paced working environment Have excellent IT skills and be confident in gathering and analysing information to support decision making and project management. Have a collaborative approach to working. Have excellent verbal and written communications skills. Are committed to learning new skills. Have a flexible approach to work to meet challenging deadlines.If this sounds like a job for you, please keep reading and look at the Job Description and Person Specification provided.

Fixed term (2 years) Why work for Newcastle City 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.