SENDIASS Advisor (Gloucester)

<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.</span><br><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p>
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<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Job Title:                           SENDIASS Advisor</span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Job Location:                     Shire Hall, Block 4, 1st Floor </span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Salary:                              £38,510 - £42,123 per annum </span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Hours per Week:                37.00 </span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Contract Type:                   Fixed Term </span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Duration:                          Two Years </span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Closing Date:                    15/11/2026 </span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Job Requisition Number:    14722 </span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">This post is not open to job share</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">SENDIASS Gloucestershire (Special Educational Needs and Disability Information Advice and Support Service) is recruiting!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>SENDIASS Adviser – Grade 8 – 2 Full-Time, Fixed Term posts (two years)</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>About The Team & Role</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">An exciting opportunity is available to join a growing team of friendly and well-respected professionals who are committed to ensuring parent carers and young people with SEND have their voices heard and receive accurate and helpful information and advice.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">SENDIASS Gloucestershire is a specialist service offering free, impartial, confidential information, advice and support on matters around SEND. The Service is offered to parent carers of children with SEND (0-25 years) and young people aged between 16 and 25 years old to help them play an active and informed role in supporting their child or the young person’s education.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>About You </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">To be successful you will need to have good organisational skills, be enthusiastic and self-motivated. These roles involve directly working with parent carers to provide impartial information, advice and support in relation to their child with SEND.  The successful applicants will have experience of engaging and working with parent carers and be fully aware of the challenges that parent carers face. Knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice is essential.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Successful applicants will be required to complete the IPSEA Level 1 Legal Training as part of the role and work towards IPSEA Level 3, ideally within 12 months of starting the role.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>About Us </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">For all your hard work, you will receive the following:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Flexible and agile working opportunities</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family</span></p>
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