Meetings and Professional Liaison

• Ensure attendance and representation at relevant meetings, including:
  • EHCP reviews
  • Multi-agency meetings
  • Team Around the Child (TAC) meetings
  • Child in Need (CIN) meetings
  • Professional network meetings
  • Placement and review meetings
• Prepare and present reports and updates as required.
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with Local Authorities, schools, families, health professionals, and external agencies.
• Act as a key point of contact for stakeholders regarding service delivery and learner progress.

Reporting and Administration

• Ensure reports are completed to a high standard and submitted within agreed deadlines.
• Monitor and quality assure staff record keeping and reporting.
• Maintain accurate and confidential records in accordance with GDPR and organisational requirements.
• Produce management information, service reports, and performance updates as required.
• Track outcomes and provide evidence of impact and progress.

Safeguarding and Compliance

• Promote the safety, welfare, and wellbeing of children and young people at all times.
• Ensure safeguarding concerns are identified, recorded, and reported appropriately.
• Monitor compliance with safeguarding, attendance, risk management, and lone working procedures.
• Support staff in managing safeguarding concerns and liaise with designated safeguarding leads where necessary.
• Maintain awareness of relevant legislation, guidance, and best practice.

Quality Assurance

• Monitor service delivery against agreed standards and outcomes.
• Conduct audits of case files, reports, and documentation.
• Ensure continuous improvement across the service.
• Contribute to policy development, service reviews, and organisational improvement initiatives.

Person Specification

Essential Skills

• Relevant qualification in Education, Health and Social Care, Youth Work, Leadership, or a related field.
• Experience working with children and young people with Autism, additional needs, SEND, SEMH and within EOTAS or an alternative provision.
• Experience coordinating services, cases, or educational support programmes.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, or managing staff.
• Experience working with multi-agency professionals and external stakeholders.
• Experience producing reports and maintaining accurate records.
• Understanding of SEND, EHCP processes, and alternative provision.
• Understanding of child-centred approaches and outcome-focused support.
• Knowledge of data protection and confidentiality requirements.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple cases and deadlines.
• Strong leadership and team management abilities.
• Ability to build positive relationships with professionals, families, and young people.

Desired Skills

• Leadership or management qualification.
• Knowledge of Local Authority SEND processes.
• Experience of quality assurance and service development.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.

Confidentiality/Safeguarding

You will have access to confidential information concerning families and other service users and will be required to maintain confidentiality at all times.

All staff have the following safeguarding responsibilities:

• Actively promote the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of all children, young people and vulnerable adults accessing our services.
• Follow organisational safeguarding policies, procedures and codes of conduct at all times.
• Maintain clear professional boundaries and model safe, respectful and appropriate behaviour.
• Recognise and respond appropriately to safeguarding, welfare or behaviour-related concerns, reporting these promptly and in line with organisational procedures.
• Work in a way that reduces risk and supports positive behaviour, emotional regulation and individual communication needs.
• Contribute to a culture where safeguarding concerns are shared appropriately, listened to, and taken seriously.

Staff Benefits

90% of our staff say that Resources for Autism is “a great place to work”. Not only will the work you do ensure we are making vital differences and inspiring others, but our other benefits also include:

• flexible working patterns with the option to work in a hybrid way (only available for some roles)
• 25 days of leave (pro rata for part-time roles) each year plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 Celebration days that could be used between Christmas and new year, but may be used for other religious days or significant days such as your birthday
• access to ongoing training and progress in the areas that interest you
• access to our wellbeing initiatives and an Employee Assistance Programme
• enrolment on to our pension scheme
• a supportive, warm and fun working environment made up of values driven people who are passionate about changing the world for autistic people

Application process

In order that we adhere to Safer Recruitment processes, all applicants are required to complete an application form which must include your full employment history with clear details, any gaps in employment need to be outlined and explained. You are also required to provide details of your full education history.

Regulated activity roles statement (anyone working directly with children or vulnerable adults such as support workers, group leaders): This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All applicants will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, including a check of the relevant Barred List(s), in line with DBS eligibility criteria and the DBS Code of Practice.

In your personal statement we would like to see how you feel you meet the person specification and the requirements/responsibilities of the role.

We particularly welcome applications from global majority candidates, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates, because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at Resources for Autism. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for our community.

As you would expect, we are a neuro-affirming employer, with a strengths and rights-based approach to neurodiversity which affirms neurodivergent identity – we don’t want to “fix” or “cure” autism, and we don’t see it as a “disability” however we do recognise it can be “disabling”. We are working to improve the ways in which we recruit and support neurodiverse employees and those with lived experience of neurodiversity.