SEND Provision and Experience Manager

Job description

The Service and Team: The SEND Provision and Experience Manager plays a pivotal role in assuring and improving the quality, effectiveness and value for money of SEND education provision across the local area. Leading a specialist team, the postholder brings together data, lived experience and professional insight to understand how provision is experienced by children, young people and families, and to drive system‑wide improvement. Working closely with education, health and commissioning partners, the role provides confident professional challenge, strengthens safeguarding and statutory compliance, and ensures that high‑cost and complex provision delivers positive outcomes. This is a role for a thoughtful, values‑driven leader who combines analytical rigour with empathy, influence and a strong commitment to inclusive practice. The Role: Are you driven by a deep belief that every child and young person with SEND deserves not just provision, but the right provision delivered well, experienced positively and making a real difference? This is a rare opportunity to step into a pivotal system‑leadership role where insight, empathy and professional challenge come together. As SEND Provisi...