Head of SEND Outreach Support Service

Head of SEND Outreach Support Services

Grade: PO10 (or Equivalent Salary on Soulbury Terms and Conditions)

Are you a skilled leader with education-based experience who can motivate and energise people to find creative solutions? Can you promote the engagement of children and young people and their families in our services? Do you model a leadership style that empowers others? Can you deliver positive change for children?

We are looking for a knowledgeable, enthusiastic, vibrant and creative Head of SEND Outreach Support Services with the skills and experience to join our senior leadership team to help us realise our ambitions. This is a key leadership post that involves a high level of collaboration contact with other leaders from across children's services and our SEND partnership. You will provide support, challenge, and relentlessly focus on improving outcomes for children within SEND within the current challenging landscape. You will have a professional background in delivering services within an educational framework and will hold a small clinical commitment in one of our Outreach teams.

In the SEND Outreach Service, we continue to invest in meeting the needs of children and young people with Special Educational Needs, Disabilities in Greenwich. We have a dynamic staff team of over 60 staff in 5 teams to enable us to build aspirations, be person centred and focus on realising outcomes.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Senior Assistant Director (Inclusion, Learning & Achievement), as well as elected Members and partners including Adult Services, Community Health providers such as Oxleas, public health and the voluntary sector to ensure that Greenwich is a place where every child and young person has the best chance to succeed and where children and families are safe, healthy and thrive.

We pride ourselves in Royal Greenwich on having an innovative learning culture dedicated to improving outcomes for children, young people, care leavers and their families. Royal Greenwich is a great place to live and work. Benefiting from excellent transport links ranging from Crossrail to the Elizabeth line to the Uber boat, we're one of the easiest boroughs to get to and navigate your way around.

Royal Greenwich is an inclusive employer, our organisational diversity is one of our greatest strengths and it really matters to us. We want our workforce at all levels to reflect and respect the diversity of our communities, bringing richness, inclusivity and innovation to our work and the services we deliver. We know we are not there yet at the senior leadership level and actively encourage applications from under-represented groups. We put equity at the heart of our recruitment and are committed to tackling discrimination in all forms. We are steadfast in promoting a diverse and inclusive community, an environment where we can all be ourselves, flourish and succeed.

If you want to work in a place where you can represent our values apply now and join us in making a difference to our children's futures, your future and ours.

When applying please view the Job Description and Person Specification for the essential requirements for this role and address these when completing your supporting statement.

Closing date for applications: Sunday 17th November 2024.

Shortlisting: W/C 18th Nov.

Officer Panel Interview: W/C 25th Nov.

Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.