SEND Reform Plan Delivery Lead

Salary range: Grade 17: £68,571-£71,055 plus fantastic benefits

Contract: Fixed Term (3 years)

Hours of work: 36 hours per week

Location: Croydon

An exciting opportunity to lead the operational delivery of Experts at Hand across Croydon, supporting the borough’s ambitious SEND transformation programme.

Experts at Hand will bring specialist education and health expertise closer to children, young people, schools, early years settings and colleges, strengthening intervention, mainstream inclusion and multidisciplinary support.

As Delivery Lead, you will coordinate implementation across education, health, social care and wider partners, ensuring effective deployment of specialist expertise and investment. You will lead a skilled multidisciplinary team, establish effective systems and governance, and ensure the programme delivers improved outcomes for children and young people with SEND. We are looking for an experienced operational and transformation leader with strong partnership skills and a proven track record of delivering change in complex, multi-agency environments.

If you are passionate about SEND, inclusion and early intervention and have the leadership skills to turn strategic ambition into meaningful delivery, we would love to hear from you.

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Croydon Council’s priorities

The Council balances its books, listens to residents, and delivers good sustainable services

• Get a grip on the finances and make the council financially sustainable
• Become a council which listens to, respects and works in partnership with Croydon’s diverse communities and businesses
• Strengthen collaboration and joint working with partner organisations and the voluntary, community and faith sectors
• Ensure good governance is embedded and adopt best practice
• Develop our workforce to deliver in a manner that respects the diversity of our communities

Key business plan outcomes:

• Croydon is a place of opportunity for business, earning and learning
• Children and young people in Croydon have the chance to thrive, learn and fulfil their potential
• Croydon is a cleaner, safer and healthier place, a borough we’re proud to call home
• People can lead healthier and independent lives for longer
• Croydon Council’s new ways of working

Equal Opportunities Statement

Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Subject to business needs, we will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working, whereby staff attend the workplace for part of their working week and work from home, or elsewhere, remotely for the rest of the time.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.

Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

The Successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check, if the role requires one.