Southend-on-Sea City Council is a Unitary local authority employing around 1,800 staff working alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the Southend 2050 ambition and make lives better for the people of Southend.
Southend itself is a vibrant place to live and work, offering coastal living alongside excellent and fast transport links into London.The team is committed to working together with parents and carers, education settings and partner agencies to ensure children and young people with SEND are given the best opportunity to thrive and succeed.
Are you an aspiring speech and language therapist seeking the opportunity to gain hands-on experience within a primary school setting?
Would you like to work closely with qualified professionals who are on hand to help and support you?
Perhaps you have recently graduated and are looking for a role where you can put into practice everything you have learned and make a real difference to children's lives?
Southend-on-Sea City Council are looking to appoint a full-time, permanent Court Progression Manager to ensure the excellence of social work practice, and professional conduct in public family law settings (The 'Public Law Outline' - care proceedings and pre- proceedings) and the timely execution of the local authority's public law applications and its pre-proceedings activity.
Your new role
Ensuring that the voices of the children involved, their wishes, aspirations and feelings are always heard, and are at the heart of the local authority's public law activity and care order applications.