Partnership for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS), is a groundbreaking initiative led by the Department for Education, Department for Health and Social Care, and NHS England. 

The Programme Manager for the Partnership for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Primary Schools, you will lead efforts to foster inclusive educational environments for neurodiverse students.

This short-term role demands dynamic leadership, a commitment to diversity and inclusion, and the ability to coordinate diverse stakeholders.

You will oversee programme implementation, including promoting awareness, managing the governance board, producing reports, leading a team, recruiting schools, conducting needs assessments, and organising training programmes.

Importantly, you'll collaborate closely with the Essex Family Forum to ensure family perspectives inform and enrich our efforts during this engagement.

This role is based in Chelmsford. 

You will feel valued as an Programme Manager within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• Salary Salary £43,000 - £45,000 plus Group Pension 
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

• Raise programme awareness among schools, partner organisations, and stakeholders.
• Engage decision-makers to advocate for neurodiversity inclusion in schools.
• Collaborate closely with the Essex Family Forum to integrate family perspectives into our promotional efforts.
• Serve as a liaison between the Governance Board & Stakeholders.
• Ensure the voice of Neurodiverse children is heard and integrated within governance board discussions.
• Analyse data on key indicators and outcomes, preparing regular reports for stakeholders.
• Highlight achievements, challenges, and recommendations for improvement.
• Ensure that the Essex Family Forum's feedback and insights are reflected in performance reporting.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to foster a supportive work environment.
• Encourage collaboration between team members, Multi Schools Council, and the Essex Family Forum.
• Develop targeted outreach strategies to recruit schools for participation.
• Coordinate comprehensive needs assessments.
• Ensure training sessions are accessible and inclusive for all participants.
• Incorporate feedback from the Essex Family Forum to enhance the relevance and effectiveness of training programmes.

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

Essential

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Social Sciences, or demonstrate experience

• Proven experience in programme management, preferably in the education sector.

• Experience working with neurodiverse communities or a strong understanding of neurodiversity and inclusive education principles.

• Strong leadership qualities with the ability to inspire and motivate a team towards shared goals.

• Ability to provide direction, guidance, and support to team members, fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

• Experience developing and implementing performance metrics and evaluation frameworks to assess programme effectiveness.

• Proficiency in data collection, analysis, and reporting to inform decision-making and continuous improvement.

• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders, including educators, policymakers, community members, and the Essex Family Forum.

• Experience engaging with families or caregivers of neurodiverse individuals, with a focus on incorporating their perspectives into programme activities.

• Understanding of the importance of family involvement and partnership in promoting inclusive education for neurodiverse students.

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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