This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Consent to be identified as a SEND expert in the tender submission

• Submit an updated CV along with a brief overview of SEND experience

• Agree to remain identified if the bid advances to the subsequent stage

• Contribute to the design and content of SEND CPD programmes, ensuring alignment with the SEND Code of Practice, current SEND reforms, and the best available evidence

• Conduct quality assurance on materials

• Assist in ensuring the quality of facilitators and associate experts

• Facilitate co-production and user testing involving practitioners, children, young people, and families

⛳️ Requirements

• Comprehensive understanding of the SEND Code of Practice (0–25), EHCPs, and current SEND reforms

• Proven experience in designing or delivering professional development for educational staff

• An enhanced DBS check, or willingness to obtain one

• Significant SEND or inclusion experience in educational settings, including roles such as an experienced SENCO, trust or local authority SEND lead, or SEND adviser (Schools strand)

• Senior SEND experience in further education or post-16 settings, such as head of Additional Learning Support, learner support, or inclusion in a college (Further education strand)

• Experience in leading or developing learning support personnel, such as learning support assistants, job coaches, or communication support workers (Further education strand)

• Understanding of Preparation for Adulthood, supported internships, and vocational and work-based learning contexts (Further education strand)

• NPQ for SENCOs or National Award for SEN Co-ordination (desirable)

• Experience in special schools or alternative provision (desirable)

• Experience in specialist post-16 settings (desirable)

• Participation in national or government-funded programmes (desirable)

• Submission of CV and a one-page cover letter outlining suitability and application strand

• Day rate for programme work starting from 2027