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Job description

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About The Role

Job Title: Service Manager - Additional Needs
Contract: Permanent
Location: Hereford
Hours: 37
Salary: 12HC £55,594 - £61,655 per annum
Relocation package of up to £10,000 available

Closing date: 21/04/2025
Interview date: w/c 28/04/2025

Come and join us on our Restorative Journey of Improvement to gain the best for children and families in Herefordshire

The Role

Herefordshire Council are looking for a Service Manager - Additional Needs to join our team. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis.

In Herefordshire, we have the highest ambitions for all children and young people. We are committed to working across our SEND & AP Partnership in an ambitious, inclusive and realistic way in a challenging financial context. Our vision is that: 'All children and young people in Herefordshire feel safe, loved, and valued, and grow up with the confidence and skills to be the best they can be.' We are ambitious and we want everyone to be included in their local communities. If you are too, join us as the Service Manager - Additional Needs and make a meaningful impact. Your innovation and drive will help us to continue improving and evolving on our journey making a service we continue to be proud of.

The Service Manager - Additional Needs will have operational oversight of teams including line management of the SEN Team Manager, SEMH Inclusion Lead and SEND & AP Programme Manager:

• The Special Educational Needs Team works closely with families, schools, and other professionals to assess children's needs and develop Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs).
• The SEMH Inclusion Service provides advice, guidance and training for schools, and for pupils who are presenting with behaviours that challenge.
• Herefordshire has been selected by the DfE to be part of the SEND & AP Change Programme testing the government's proposed SEND reforms. The SEND & AP Programme Manager co-ordinates this work and works closely with colleagues across the West Midlands region.

Key responsibilities

• Having management oversight of teams
• Analysing data to support the direction of work within teams
• Supporting the service in achieving statutory timeframes for key performance areas
• Providing support for complex situations and work alongside partner agencies to resolve issues and concerns
• Having a strategic oversight of the quality assurance of EHCPs and processes

You will need

• Evidence of continuing professional development in a management role.
• Committed to listening to children and families and to working collaboratively with them to address concerns.
• Comprehensive understanding of legislation, guidance and national policy framework relevant to role for provision of services.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with colleagues from a wide range of professional disciplines.
• Ability to motivate colleagues and develop their professional capability
• Ability to work under pressure.

If you share our values and ambitions, we would love you to join our team.

We Offer

A competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement, and access to our contributory pension and staff benefits scheme, which includes:

• Relocation packages: support of up to £10,000
• Pension Scheme Enrolment in the Local Government (LGPS)
• Professional development: protected time and budget to support social workers develop themselves and their careers.
• Generous Annual Leave: 31 days' annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum
• Flexible working: flexi-time, job-share, part-time hours and, in some instances, home working
• Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 access to support and counselling
• Payment of professional membership fees
• Pick your perks - our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits. This includes savings, cash back and discounts.

About Us

Herefordshire is a beautiful, historic county located in the heart of the Marches on the border with Wales. We are one of the most rural and sparsely populated counties in England with a wealth of unspoilt countryside, distinctive heritage, and lively and attractive market towns.

Our priority in Herefordshire is to keep children safe and give them a great start in life. It's the priority for the council, our partners and for all of us who work with Children & Young People.

How do we do this? By having dynamic, dedicated, passionate and professional staff who work in a culture that focuses on what we can achieve with children, what they can achieve themselves, and the relationship we build with families and partners to enable this. We have invested heavily in training and developing staff in our relational practice approach with our improvement partner Leeds City Council, so it's an exciting time to join Herefordshire - we believe in investing in you so you can be the best you can be!

Herefordshire has a really strong team ethos. Our teams are passionate about the work they do and the positive difference they and the teams they are in make to people's lives. This is all underpinned by the focus and support from their managers and the council as a whole.

Come to Herefordshire and join the journey.

Herefordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children & young people and vulnerable adults. If you are offered this position, it will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service enhanced check and further pre-employment checks.

The following candidates will be interviewed if they meet the essential criteria for the post they are applying for:

• Those who indicate that they have a disability. This is part of our commitment to the "Disability Confident" scheme.
• Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they serve in the Armed Forces, whether Regular or Reserve, those who have served in the past, or their families. This is part of our pledge to support the Armed Forces Covenant; and
• Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they are a Herefordshire care leaver. This is part of our commitment to supporting young people leaving our care.

We will deliver better support to our most vulnerable children and their families, develop stronger relationships with partners across the region, and beyond.

Therefore, we take our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults seriously and expect all of our staff, visitors and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details of this role.

To apply, please submit your CV and complete the supporting statement within the application form, referring to the job description & person specification, detailing how you meet the specific requirements of the role.