SEND EHC Coordinator

SEND EHC Coordinator

Location: Hemel Hempstead or Stevenage with travel across Hertfordshire

Salary: £34,434 pa with the opportunity to progress to £37,280 per annum

Hours: 37 per week

Contract: Permanent

About The Role

The Education Health & Care Coordinator (EHC Coordinator) role is highly process-driven. It involves managing and processing EHC plans within a complex legal framework to tight timescales. The role implements legal requirements through a meticulous review of documents, creating, reviewing and amending plans. Whilst the role involves communication and ongoing dialogue with practitioners, parents and carers, it is primarily related to statutory processes. The role involves virtually no direct interaction with children or young people.

As an EHC Coordinator you will deliver casework that coordinates professionals across education, health and care, as well as the family, to deliver EHC assessments, plans and reviews on time and to high quality, focusing on improving outcomes for children and young people. This includes:

• Developing the highest standards of achievement and inclusion for children and young people with SEN through effective casework within the policy and budget framework of the Council, ensuring a focus on preparing for adulthood from the earliest ages.
• Preparing information for parents, children, young people and schools, which provides the right information at the appropriate time, in a simple-to-use way, engaging partners in understanding our responsibility to children, families and schools.
• Managing and processing statutory casework within legal and internal timelines.
• Working collaboratively with professionals across education, health and care services.
• Ensuring effective case management, integrated working practice and successful outcomes for children.
• Participating in resource decisions, taking the lead where appropriate, for example in deciding whether assessment or plans are written, or whether specialist provision is agreed, ensuring that resource decisions align with local authority policies, procedures and eligibility criteria. This may include chairing or attending panel meetings.
• Participating, as required, in a range of meetings with other professionals and parents/carers about individual children with complex needs, including representing Children’s Services at annual review, chairing reviews, attending and chairing multi‑agency meetings as appropriate.
• Contributing to the development of policy, procedures and provision for children with SEN, maintaining up‑to‑date knowledge of SEN casework, national legislation changes and departmental policies, and supporting induction, training and support for all team members.
• Inputting and maintaining accurate, comprehensive database records and participating in the Local Authority’s systems for monitoring and quality assurance for children and young people known to the EHC assessment and review team.

About The Teams

EHC coordinators will be aligned to one of several functional teams supporting assessment processes, review processes or resolution and reconciliation processes.

We have opportunities for you to specialise in:

• Early Years SEND: responsible for children age 0‑5 (up to and including reception year) with an EHCP.

About You

Essential

• Knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice and the Children and Families Act 2014.
• Educated to A level or equivalent.
• Previous experience working with early years to deliver SEND provision or experience with other stakeholders including parents, education, care and health.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure.
• High level of literacy to support good case recording and quality EHC plans.
• Hold a current driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work.

Desirable

• Previous experience with casework management.

Benefits Of Working For Us

For details of the full benefits package, please visit the Council employment portal.

How to Apply

Upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any gaps), training and qualifications. Include examples of where you have met the advert criteria to help the panel recognise your skills and abilities. You may also include a short covering paragraph to provide additional information about your skills, knowledge and experiences.

Disability Confident

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding

This role requires a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Driving Required

You must be able to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, using your own transport or a company car.

English Fluency

Ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post. Where signed language is used, a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the required standard will be provided. Further information about the legal requirement is available here.