SEND Reform Engagement Lead (Hybrid)

Community Care Live; Winchester; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Assured EAP

Local Government Pension Scheme

Generous annual leave

Job summary

Community Care Live is seeking a Participation & Partnership Engagement Officer (SEND Reform) to ensure parent, carer and family voices shape Hampshire's SEND Reform programme. You’ll work with networks across education, health and social care to translate lived experience into action and improvements.

You will design inclusive engagement activities, analyse insights and drive participation across diverse families, reporting to strengthen service delivery and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Experience of planning and delivering participation, engagement, consultation or co-production activities with parents, carers, families, communities or service users.
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills across organisations and stakeholders.
• Experience of facilitating workshops, events or group discussions and creating inclusive environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate parent and carer participation, engagement and co-production activity across the SEND Reform, ensuring it is inclusive, purposeful and aligned to programme priorities.
• Build strong relationships with the Hampshire Parent Carer Network, community organisations and partner agencies to strengthen collaboration and meaningful engagement.
• Design and facilitate engagement activities, including workshops, focus groups, consultations and events, creating opportunities for a diverse range of families to contribute.
• Gather, analyse and communicate engagement insight, translating feedback into recommendations that inform programme delivery and strategic decision-making.
• Lead the Coram Parent Champion Programme and support wider participation activity, ensuring the voices of children, young people, parents and carers are reflected in SEND Reform work.
• Some evening and weekend work may be required to support the delivery of parent/carer participation groups.

Skills

Participation planning

Engagement coordination

Co-production facilitation

Stakeholder relationship building

Workshop facilitation

Job description

Community Care Live is seeking a Participation & Partnership Engagement Officer (SEND Reform) to ensure parent, carer and family voices shape Hampshire's SEND Reform programme. You’ll work with networks across education, health and social care to translate lived experience into action and improvements.

You will design inclusive engagement activities, analyse insights and drive participation across diverse families, reporting to strengthen service delivery and decision-making.