Salary: £48,969 Grade: Level 4 Zone 2 Location: 5 Pancras Square, N1C 4AG Contract Type: Permanent Hours: Full Time Closing Date: Wednesday 4^th December 2024 at 23:55 About Camden Camden is changing on the inside to make life better for everyone.
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This role is key to our ambition of ensuring children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) experience services that are impactful, inclusive, and deliver positive outcomes.
How You'll Be Involved As the SEND Quality Assurance Lead, you'll play a critical role in driving high-quality and person-centred outcomes for children and young people with SEND.
You will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of a robust quality assurance framework and processes, ensuring consistent and high standards across the SEND & Inclusion Service.
Your work will include developing and managing grouped and themed audit processes, presenting data reports, and creating action plans to address areas for improvement.
This role involves close collaboration with schools, families, and professionals from education, health, and social care to enhance the quality of professional advice and ensure the service meets its statutory requirements.
You'll also stay ahead of national changes, such as updates to the Ofsted local area SEND inspection framework, to ensure the service remains compliant and effective.
By embedding a co-production model with children, families, and key stakeholders, you'll contribute to the continued improvement of services for some of the borough's most vulnerable residents.
All About You You will bring extensive experience in SEND and inclusive practices, including working at a management level in SEND services.
Your understanding of the Children and Families Act 2014, the associated SEND Code of Practice, and the Ofsted local area SEND inspection framework will be essential.
You will also have experience developing and implementing quality assurance processes, creating action plans, and working collaboratively with schools, education professionals, and families.
To thrive in this role, you'll need to be proactive, highly organised, and comfortable working under pressure while juggling competing priorities.
Your ability to present clear and actionable data, alongside your commitment to service improvement, will ensure success in this critical role.
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What We Offer At Camden, you'll receive a host of benefits.
From flexible working to 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays!
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We also know that a work life balance is extremely important so we also offer family leave, loan schemes and access to our incredible staff networks.
We also have an incredible pensions scheme.
Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.
Inclusion and Diversity We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce.
A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.
To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit https://www.camdenjobs.co.uk/inclusion-and-diversity Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden's commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.
Asking for Adjustments Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone.
This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions.
If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at ****** or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.