Job Responsibilities

• To work collaboratively and co-operatively with children, young people and their parents or carers during the EHC Needs Assessment (EHCNA) process from assessment through to decision to issue, or decline to issue, an Education, Health, and Care (EHC) plan. The post holder must ensure that families are involved with the process and kept informed, and that the child or young person is central to any decision made about them.

• To conduct the EHCNA process from initiation to issue of final plan within the statutory timescales. The post holder will need to write the EHC plan using the information gathered as part of the assessment and work collaboratively with wider professional agencies to ensure the outcomes specified in the EHC plan are identified and delivered.