- To be qualified teacher status with evidence of further training leading to specialist qualification in working with SEND and leadership and management experience in early years or SEND
- To lead on quality improvement by securing information, guidance, advice and training to meet the needs of providers, parents and carers, schools and other professionals by having an excellent understanding Early Years agenda, EYFS, SEND and pedagogical issues, including, the latest inspection and research findings
- To champion the needs of children, particularly the most disadvantaged, ensuring that children and their families are able to access high quality early education and childcare
- Understanding of uses of data analysis to monitor progress and standards at setting and Local Authority level and highlight areas for setting development.
- To line manage the SEND teachers and practitioners providing leadership and guidance and support, develop and motivate both individuals and teams to meet objective
- To promote equality and inclusion, particularly for disadvantaged families, looked after children, children in need and children with disabilities or special educational needs by removing barriers of access to early education
- Understanding of issues relating to progression from early years to reception and how the process of transition can be supported for young children
Team Manager - Leicestershire, United Kingdom - Leicestershire County Council
Description
PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker,
Salary: £52,413 - £65,550
Working Hours: 37Mon-Fri
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 22nd April 2024
Interview Date(s): 8th May 2024
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Early Years, Inclusion and Childcare service as Early Years SEND Manager. The post of Early Years SEND Manager will allow you the opportunity to join and lead a highly skilled, enthusiastic team. We work with children from birth to school entry who have identified additional needs. You will lead and organise a team that works with children both in their homes and in early years provision.
Alongside this you will work closely with the service manager to ensure children have the right support at the right time and ensure children access the highest quality inclusive provision in their local mainstream provision. You will have the opportunity to work in partnership with other services in the department including health to ensure children reach their full potential.
The service supports children who are at risk of exclusion and have a successful relationship with schools and settings ensuring children maintain their placements. We also support our youngest children through our Portage Practitioners.
Our aim is to support children and families to access the best. If you are passionate about supporting our youngest children with additional needs this is the perfect job for you.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
Our main aim is to improve outcomes for children of Leicestershire. If you are successful you will be supported by the Service Manager to be creative and solution focused as well as having access to a variety of professional development opportunities. People who work in our service say that we are a caring, approachable, friendly service who work well together and with other professionals. Staff are made to feel valued and that they are making a difference.
As Children and Family department we are committed to our vision of becoming a trauma informed responsive department. We will strive to create a safe, compassionate environment demonstrated through relationships based on trust, respect, hope and empathy. We will achieve this through a spirit of curiosity, by nurturing connections through relationships, making a deliberate effort to know and understand people.
We have an Inclusion and Diversity working party that meets regularly and the local authority has other supportive groups where you will have the opportunity to learn and connect with others.
We operate on a fully inclusive employment policy and therefore welcome without exceptions candidates who have protected characteristics. Our one prerequisite is that you are the best at what you do.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Sue Wilson
section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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