Senior Inclusion Lead, Local SEND & Service Improvement

Somerset Council; Taunton; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

LGPS pension

Flexible and hybrid working

Health and wellbeing support

Paid volunteering opportunities

Job summary

Somerset Council in Taunton seeks a Senior Inclusion Lead to head a locality-based Statutory SEND team, building relationships with families, schools and partner agencies to deliver timely, coordinated support.

You will provide operational leadership, oversee performance information and QA to improve timeliness, compliance and family experience, while contributing to service-wide improvement priorities and SEND recovery.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and developing teams and managing performance.
• Strong understanding of statutory SEND responsibilities (EHC needs, plans, annual reviews).
• Ability to build effective relationships across education, health and social care.
• Commitment to children, young people, families and co-production.
• Ability to use data and QA to improve services.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a locality-based team, creating a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Build strong local relationships with children, young people, families, schools, settings and partner agencies.
• Use local knowledge, data and feedback to identify pressures, remove barriers and target improvement activity.
• Improve timeliness, quality, consistency and legal compliance of statutory SEND processes.
• Provide oversight and solution-focused support for complex work and key meetings.
• Champion co-production so families are informed, listened to and meaningfully involved.
• Lead a defined service-wide portfolio, developing clear standards, guidance and learning across the service.
• Contribute to the wider leadership of Statutory SEND and the SEND recovery and improvement programme.

Skills

Team leadership

SEND knowledge

Stakeholder collaboration

Data analysis

Co-production

Education

Degree or equivalent

Job description

Somerset Council in Taunton seeks a Senior Inclusion Lead to head a locality-based Statutory SEND team, building relationships with families, schools and partner agencies to deliver timely, coordinated support.

You will provide operational leadership, oversee performance information and QA to improve timeliness, compliance and family experience, while contributing to service-wide improvement priorities and SEND recovery.