Job Description

EHCP Coordinator

SO1 (34,434 - 39,152)

37 hours, Full-Time

Temporary (12 months)

Hybrid: Stopford House and homeworking

Application Deadline: Wednesday 5th November 2025, 11:59pm

Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Shortlisting Date: Thursday 6th November 2025

Interview Date: Wednesday 12th November 2025

Interview Type: Virtual (Microsoft Teams)

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Your Role

As an EHCP Coordinator you will manage a caseload of children and young people aged 025 with SEND, supporting them through the EHCP process. This includes building trusted relationships with families and professionals, ensuring clear communication, and meeting statutory timescales. You'll draft and review outcome-focused EHCPs using input from education, health, and care professionals. Your work will reflect the aspirations and strengths of each child, preparing them for adulthood. You'll advise on educational options and placements, consult with providers, and ensure the child's and family's views are central to planning and reviews through a collaborative, holistic approach.

About You

Please use your application to tell us how well you meet the criteria listed below as these are the key skills, experience, technical expertise and qualifications needed to be successful in the role. We will then use all the information you provide in your application to help us decide whether you are shortlisted for interview. Any interview questions or additional assessments such as tests or presentations may also be broadly based on these criteria:


Keeping the people of Stockport at the heart of what we do

Succeeding as a team, collaborating with colleagues and partners

Driving things forward with ambition, creativity and confidence.


Showing value and respect to our colleagues, partners and customers.

About Us

Join Stockport Council's EHCP Team and make a meaningful impact in the lives of children and young people with SEND. We're looking for passionate individuals who value inclusion, collaboration, and person-centred practice. You'll be part of a dedicated team committed to delivering high-quality, outcome-focused EHCPs that reflect aspirations and prepare young people for adulthood. In return, we offer generous annual leave, flexible and hybrid working options, access to wellbeing support, professional development opportunities, and a wide range of employee discounts. If you're motivated by making a difference and thrive in a supportive, forward-thinking environment, we'd love to hear from you.


At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We're keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.


We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Laura Pugh (EHCP Team Lead) via laura.pugh@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role

The successful applicant's appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.

Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential job role criteria.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme

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