SEND Advisor

(37 hours per week / 52 weeks per year)

Up to 41 days paid holiday per year

Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme

Chesterfield College is an outstanding place to work and has superb staff benefits including a voucher discount scheme, cycle to work, healthcare plan, free flu jabs and access to an Employee Assistance Programme.

For further details of our staff benefits, please visit https://www.chesterfield.ac.uk/workingforus/

Chesterfield College are seeking a full-time SEND Advisor to join a passionate and highly effective team.

·       Are you an experienced SEND professional, with a passion for disability inclusion in learning and employment?

·       Do you have knowledge and experience of Additional Learning Support delivery and funding for apprentices?

·       Are you able to write high quality and easily interpreted support plans for a range of disabilities?

·       Are you confident using IT packages and college management information systems, such as EBS, reports, Pastoral, OneDrive and excel?

·       Do you have line management experience?

If that sounds like you, we would love to receive your application.

Want to find out more first?

To find out more, please email the Head of Inclusion Beldhamn@chesterfield.ac.uk to arrange a phone call or visit.

The role includes

Additional Learning Support Funding

·       Maintain a caseload of SEND Apprentices, ensuring that the right support is planned and put in place.

·       Write Learner Inclusion Plans, advising on reasonable adjustments for students and apprentices with learning difficulties and disabilities.

·       Be responsible for the accurate and effective planning of support hours, to enable compliance with funding audit requirements.

Exam Access Arrangements

·       Guide the Work based staff in the completion of exam access arrangements referrals.

·       Work closely with the Exam Access Arrangements Lead to track exam access arrangements for apprentices.

Inclusive Practice

·       Collaborate with the Careers team, and Pathways provision to enhance the careers offer for SEND students and apprentices.

·       Work with the SEND Coordinator, Head of Inclusion and operational delivery teams to ensure learning support is effective, of high quality and meets the learning aims.  

·       Work with wider support teams to ensure effective co-ordination of information regarding students and apprentices ‘at risk’, and to implement support plans where required.

·      Support in the delivery of inclusive practice training for staff working with apprentices.

·       Support in the delivery of additional learning support funding training for staff working with apprentices.

·       Work with operational delivery teams to ensure course materials are accessible assist in the modification of materials and provide guidance around strategies to be employed in the learning environment.

·       Provide duty cover for the SEND Team to deal with SEND related enquires

EHCP Caseloads

·       Manage a caseload of students with an Education, Health and Care Plan supporting relevant others to provide support towards the EHCP outcomes.

Line Management

·       Support the daily coordination of Learner Support Assistants in line with staff absence, learner need and Additional Learning Support funding.

·       Directly line manage a team of Learning Support Assistants under the direction of the SEND Coordinator

To apply for this role, please visit our Website at http://www.chesterfield.ac.uk/jobs/

Shortlisting for this role may take place as applications are received. We therefore reserve the right to close this vacancy once a suitable candidate has been appointed.

Closing Date: 22 April 2025

Interview Date: 01 May 2025

An offer of employment at Chesterfield College will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure carried out by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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