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SEND Transitions Advisor (20 hours/week, £13/hour)

Ben Clark Fair4All Education, Jobs With Us, News, SEND Transition Service

This is an exciting opportunity for a SEND professional to be involved in the creation of an innovative new service for SEND students. We are looking for someone who can “hit the ground running” (or wheeling!) and start designing the new service through close liaison with school staff and students. This is a re-advertisement with a longer contract length.

This role involves some work in a Buckinghamshire school, and the post holder must therefore be able to travel into the selected school as required. They must also be an appropriate person to work in a SEND school environment.

This is a part-time role. BuDS is committed to fully flexible working, and the post holder will have considerable discretion as to their working hours when working remotely from home. Work within the school environment will need to take place during school hours. The proportion of time spent in school will vary according to the needs of the role.

Hours:20 hours/week
(flexible working)
Pay rate:£13/hour
Start date:1 May 2025
(or ASAP)
Duration:1 May 2025 to 31 December 2025
(will be extended if funding permits)
Location:Partly on-site in a Buckinghamshire school, partly home-based/remote
Reporting to:Fair4All Education Transitions Coordinator
Role purpose:Support the creation of a pilot SEND Transitions Service in a Buckinghamshire school

Background

BuDS has conducted research which demonstrates that a Transitions Service for SEND students will improve educational/employment outcomes and students’ wellbeing, and save schools and the local authority both time and money. This role will work closely with BuDS staff and volunteers, and onsite with a selected Buckinghamshire school. The aim is to explore the scope and elements of a transitions service with both school staff and selected students, and to produce an outline service design. Both educational and end of education transitions (i.e. to employment) are included in the potential scope.

BuDS is currently seeking finance to extend this initial pilot beyond December 2025 into the following two school years. If this funding is received, the post-holder will be offered a contract extension and an increase in hours.

You can find out more about our Fair4All Education project, and the SEND Transitions Service project, by using the buttons below.

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Specific Responsibilities

With strong support of the Fair4All Education Transitions Coordinator, and as part of the wider BuDS team:

  1. Establish working relationships with partner school staff and selected students
  2. Work closely with school staff and students to explore the scope and elements of a transitions service
  3. With the Fair4All Education Transitions Coordinator, produce an outline SEND Transitions Service design
  4. Identify resources likely to be needed within the new service, and their accessibility requirements
  5. Time permitting, provide SEND Transition support to a small number of students to test concepts and gather case studies

Person Specification

  1. Substantial knowledge and experience of SEND Transitions within an educational and/or employment setting
  2. Substantial knowledge and experience of working with disabled young people with a range of SEND needs
  3. Knowledge of research methods and ethics, and how to apply these
  4. Ability to support and communicate effectively with SEND students in small groups and 1-2-1 settings
  5. Working knowledge of using MS 365 and Teams
  6. Strong planning and organising skills
  7. Ability to build relationships and support others
  8. Ability to work cooperatively and effectively with a wide variety of people including disabled people with impairments of all types
  9. Ability to maintain confidentiality and keep private information to themselves
  10. Understanding and commitment to the Social Model of disability – see https://buds.org.uk/the-social-model-of-disability/

BuDS is an equal opportunity organisation, and disabled people are particularly encouraged to apply for this role.

Safeguarding

BuDS is committed to safeguarding all those with whom it works. This post will involve unsupervised work with potentially vulnerable adults and children, and/or their records, and so this post will be subject to an enhanced DBS check on appointment for both children and adults workforce. This will be arranged and paid for by BuDS. Work and character references will also be taken up.

How to Apply & What Happens

To apply for this role:

  1. Please send an initial email of interest with your CV attached to jobs@buds.org.uk
  2. Our Support Manager will be in touch within a few working days with feedback on your application and to discuss the next steps.
  3. We will invite you to an online interview via MS Teams
  4. We will give you post-interview feedback within 5 working days
  5. If you are successful in the interview, we will start the internal onboarding process immediately
  6. The first stage of onboarding is safeguarding – we will conduct an enhanced DBS check for both workforces, and take up character and work references. Your induction cannot proceed until safeguarding has concluded satisfactorily
  7. You will then be set up with BuDS team access, and have a general induction to BuDS
  8. You will be inducted into the Fair4All Education team, and start work
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