Send Consultant - Funding And Specialist Places Client Lead (Interim)
Location: South West
Pay rate: £550 per day
Our client is looking for a
Send Consultant - Funding And Specialist Places Client Lead (Interim). Are you passionate about making a real impact in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) provision? We are seeking a driven SEND Funding & Specialist Places Client Led to lead transformative change in how specialist SEND places are delivered and funded.
In this role, you will work with schools and multi-academy trusts to create new SEND placements, streamline funding processes, and improve the overall financial governance of SEND provisions. You'll manage relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring funding agreements, timelines, and high-quality education standards are met.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee and improve SEND funding processes
- Develop new SEND places in collaboration with schools/MATs
- Negotiate and manage funding agreements and delivery timelines
- Identify and address weaknesses in financial management systems
- Ensure SEND placements meet quality and regulatory standards
- Build and maintain strong relationships with schools, parents, and internal teams
- Lead projects to deliver non-capital aspects of school place planning
Key Person Requirements:
- Proven experience in leading SEND funding changes and financial system improvements
- Strong knowledge of SEND statutory responsibilities and school place planning
- Expertise in negotiating and delivering SEND school places with schools/MATs
- Senior leadership experience in a local authority or similar setting
- Skilled in managing complex educational capital programmes
- Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Strong relationship-building abilities across diverse stakeholders
Perfect candidate will be:
- Recognised and relevant professional qualifications e.g. teaching qualifications, social work, other level 6 qualifications, management qualifications.
- Evidence of skills, knowledge and experience to be able to assess and manage risk for the most vulnerable children.
- Work in a Social Services Directorate or other Statutory or Voluntary Agency.
- Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for individuals and their families
- Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans
- Committed to providing our service users with a high-quality service
- Experienced in working in a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis
- Knowledge of legislation relating to general social work practice
- 4 Years plus Qualified
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-
Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to, easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives, ongoing compliance managed for you, prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn't the role for you, contact us about other roles including SEND, IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC Children's Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager
This role is ideally located for those travelling from
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole,
Plymouth, Bristol, Bath, Southampton, Plymouth, Cardiff, Yeovil, Newport, Poole, Torquay, Paignton, Exeter, Exmouth, Newquay, St Austell, Bodmin, Truro, Falmouth, St Ives, Reading, London, Weymouth, Yeovil, Taunton, Bridgewater, Minehead, Ilfracombe, Barnstable, Bideford, Bude, Portsmouth, Winchester, Launceston. Northampton, Cambridge, Bedford, Milton Keyes, Luton, London, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough Bath, Swindon, Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, Worchester, Royal Leamington Spa.