Croydon Council Hiring for Education Development Adviser SEN Grade 16 £54 Job at Croydon, England , UK Full Time

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Special Education Needs (SEN) specialist to join our Education Development Team. If you have a successful track record of improving the quality of teaching and learning for SEN pupils and would like to make a positive impact for pupils across Croydon, we would like to hear from you.

The successful applicant will have a pivotal role in shaping and delivering high quality statutory, discretionary, and traded support, advice, and training to specialist and mainstream education setting across all age phases. You will have a specific focus on ensuring high quality provision for our pupils with SEN within local mainstream and specialist schools.

Our Education Development Team works with all 126 schools in the borough, maintaining high quality relationships between the LA and schools on a wide range of matters. We pride ourselves on having excellent relationships with local schools and the successful applicant will be the LA link officer for a caseload of local schools. This will predominantly be with our special schools but will also include leading on relationship management and quality assurance of our Enhanced Learning Provisions (ELPs) within our mainstream schools and contributing to delivery of wider education objectives.

As well as contributing to the delivery of the LA’s statutory school improvement functions (including schools causing concern and quality assurance of provision), you will also use your creativity and commercial acumen to strengthen our traded service to schools ensuring that our offer meets local needs, is high quality and financially viable.

The role holder will be expected to work proactively within our team of specialist Education Advisers, and with wider LA colleagues, to ensure that the Council continues to work in collaboration with all education settings and other key partners to improve our children and young people’s education and wellbeing outcomes.

We particularly welcome applications from professionals with experience of working in a specialist SEN role, ideally with leadership experience, gained within an education setting, local authority school improvement role or similar.

This role is advertised on a part-time basis – 0.6FTE/3 days per week. The full-time equivalent (FTE) starting salary for this role is currently £54,975 plus market supplement of £7,235 (Gross £62,210). The gross salary for the part-time role is therefore £37,326.

We are happy to discuss working arrangements/patterns with short-listed applicants, including term-time only arrangements. Croydon Council operates an agile working policy.