EHCP Coordinator
Aurora Foxes, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 5TY31 days remaining to apply
Job start date
25 November 2025
Closing date
26 December 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £16,661.46 - £18,601.25
EHCP Coordinator job summary
Overview and Responsibilities
EHCP Coordinator – Aurora Foxes
Location: Minehead, Somerset
Actual Annual Salary: £16,661.46 - £18,601.25 Depending on experience and qualifications
Hourly Rate: £14.43 - £16.11
Hours: 24 hours per week, Term time only (42 weeks per year)
Welcome to Aurora Foxes, a specialist college and training hotel for young people with learning disabilities, situated in the friendly seaside town of Minehead. Foxes is a very special place.
This is a unique opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of our young people attending Foxes and supports our students to learn the skills, knowledge, and confidence they need to successfully shape their own future. Our aim is to equip our young adults with the life and hospitality skills to become work ready, life ready.
Your Role:
As our EHCP Coordinator, you will be primarily responsible for the administration, coordination, and facilitation of the college’s Annual Review of Education Health & Care Plan process. In addition, you will acts as the first contact to customers by responding to external and internal written and telephone queries relating to EHCP processes.
The EHCP coordinator will ensure that the EHCP process is conducted accurately, timely and effectively across all provisions, in line with statutory and local requirements for reporting. This will include supporting in the co-ordination and attendance at EHCP review meetings. Throughout the process the EHCP Coordinator will be a point of contact for external agencies, staff, parents and carers who have EHCP process queries.
Key responsibilities:
Coordinate the EHCP process, from initial report gathering through to submission of paperwork to local authorities.
Arrange, facilitate, and administrate timely Annual Review meetings, including inviting attendees and distributing reports in accordance with statutory timescales, using the relevant paperwork.
Ensure that the Annual Review meeting chair takes ownership of the Annual Review meeting and sets appropriate targets/amends EHCP outcomes as appropriate.
Submit the Annual Review paperwork to the local authority, ensuring that the college’s recommendations are supported by professional reports and that students/parents/carers are provided with advice and guidance, and are signposted to the relevant resources/services if a change of educational placement/provision is expected.
Maintain an administrative overview of Annual Reviews on the relevant college system.
Ensure that the relevant professional is invited to the meeting, in cases where the student is expected to progress into a new area, e.g., Apprenticeship, Supported Internships, Traineeships, Higher Education, Employment, Adult Social Care etc.
Deliver/assist in the delivery of staff training relating to statutory processes linked with Education Health and care plans.
Skills and Qualifications
Successful candidate qualities:
Essential:
Grade 4/C GCSE English and Maths
Experience in using IT
Experience in reporting writing
Experience in dealing in a professional capacity with a broad range of people
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely at all levels
Ability to be self-motivated, to reflect on own performance within a role and to identify areas of learning/improvement
Ability to multi task whilst having exceptional attention to detaill
Flexible approach to work and work area, working outside normal hours when reasonably required to do so
Understanding of safeguarding
Understanding of the benefits of equality, diversity and inclusion within society
Understanding of the principles of Data Protection
General Awareness of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice 2015
Knowledge of EHCP processes and procedures
Accurate typing and minute taking skills
Organisation skills and good time management
Ability to manage own time to deal with multiple tasks.
Able and willing to work as part of a team.
Desirable:
Experience working with post-16 students with learning difficulties or disabilities
Customer service experience
Benefits and Additional Information
🌟What’s on Offer at Aurora?
We believe in supporting you as much as we support the children and young people in our care. Here’s a snapshot of the fantastic benefits waiting for you:
📚 Grow with Us – Training & Development
Learning never stops at Aurora! We offer a wide range of training programmes and career development opportunities to help you build your skills and reach your goals.
💸 Save Money on Everyday Essentials
With the rising cost of living, our Perkbox app helps you stretch your money further:
Discounts on groceries, phone plans, internet, dining out, gym memberships & more
Access to our Cycle to Work and Car Scheme
💰 Competitive Pay & Reward
We regularly benchmark our pay and benefits to stay ahead of the curve. You’ll enjoy:
Enhanced Annual Leave
Company Sick Pay
Enhanced Pension
Life Assurance
🩺 24/7 GP Access – For You & Your Household
Need a doctor? No problem. Book a phone or video appointment anytime, day or night. This service covers everyone in your household.
🦷 UK Health Cash Plan
Cover everyday healthcare costs like dental and optician bills. You and your children are included in the scheme, and you can upgrade to add your partner too!
🧠 Employee Assistance Programme
Your wellbeing matters. Get confidential support on a wide range of issues, including:
Freephone counselling (available 24/7)
Online tools and resources
👯♀️ Refer a Friend – Earn £1,000!
Know someone who’d be a great fit? Refer them and get rewarded!
(*Terms apply)
Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Aurora Foxes
- School type
- Other type, ages 16 to 25
- School size
- Up to 85 pupils
- Age range
- 16 to 25
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Aurora Foxes website
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