Education Partnerships Lead — Local Impact

Lancashire County Council; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire County Council is seeking an Education Partnership Officer to join the Education Improvement Service in Preston. The role focuses on locality-based working, leading Locality Groups and SEND Clusters, and developing collaborative solutions across schools, health, SEND and community partners.

You will support Experts at Hand, navigate services, and provide practical actions to improve outcomes for children and families. This is a full-time, permanent role with sponsorship unavailable.

Qualifications

• Experience of partnership or multi-agency working and an understanding of education, SEND, inclusion, early help or related children’s services.

Responsibilities

• Leading and chairing Locality Groups and SEND Clusters, bringing schools, settings and partners together to agree shared priorities, actions and outcomes.
• Supporting the delivery of the Team Around the School and Setting (TASS) approach within allocated localities.
• Acting as a named district contact for Experts at Hand, helping schools and settings access appropriate advice, support and specialist expertise.
• Using data, consultation and local intelligence to identify needs, gaps, emerging risks and barriers affecting children and young people.
• Building strong relationships across education, health, SEND, children’s services and voluntary, community and faith sector organisations.
• Supporting partners to develop collaborative and preventative solutions to complex local issues.
• Monitoring demand, outcomes and emerging themes and using this intelligence to inform service improvement and wider strategic priorities.
• Delivering briefings, training and development activity and contributing to the continued development of locality-based ways of working across Lancashire.

Skills

Partnership working

Multi-agency working

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Influencing

Job description

Lancashire County Council is seeking an Education Partnership Officer to join the Education Improvement Service in Preston. The role focuses on locality-based working, leading Locality Groups and SEND Clusters, and developing collaborative solutions across schools, health, SEND and community partners.

You will support Experts at Hand, navigate services, and provide practical actions to improve outcomes for children and families. This is a full-time, permanent role with sponsorship unavailable.