EHCP Coordinator
Southwark
Contract
£21 Umbrella P/H
We are currently on the lookout for a EHCP Coordinator for a role in Southwark. The EHCP Coordinator will be responsible for a caseload of children with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs). This Includes overseeing the child's journey from the commencement of statutory assessment to placement, ensuring all statutory processes are met, until finalisation of their EHCP using key working principles with the family.
Key Accountabilities:
- To take lead responsibility/be a single point of contact for a portfolio of children and young people with SEND, once statutory assessment has commenced, in terms of support for the child and family, liaison with parents, schools, professionals and other Local Authorities as appropriate.
- To use key working principles in helping parents, carers, young people and professionals navigate the EHCP assessment and plan process. Including meeting with families at the start of the process, regular liaison by email and telephone and acting as the coordinator/key point of contact for all meetings concerning the assessment and placement process, keeping parents/carers/young people informed of the process and progress within it.
- Provide a range of advice to parents/carers/young people, allocated schools and other external professionals and colleagues regarding the statutory process.
- To attend, where applicable, multi-professional meetings (such as Team Around the Child (TAC) meetings) concerning children and young people within the portfolio of cases and to Chair these meetings as required.
- To populate sections of the EHCP, as reports become available, in terms of general information, information about the child and family and the child's assessed needs and attend co-production meetings with the EHCP writer to support the family and take notes as required.
- To manage the placement of pupils (within the portfolio) with EHCP of SEN.
For more information please call Sam on 01616670021
