Can you help strengthen the voice of parent carers and SEND families to improve outcomes for children?

SEND Voices Wokingham (SVW) is the Department for Education (DfE) recognised independent parent carer forum for Wokingham Borough. We are a charity dedicated to ensuring that families of children with disabilities and additional needs can fully participate in shaping and developing services within Wokingham Borough.

SVW are excited to offer a new opportunity for an Engagement Officer to join our team and play a crucial role in engaging with SEND families to understand what is working and where things can be improved to feed into the SEND Reform and other improvement plans in the Borough. The Engagement Officer will also work to build stronger relationships between families, schools, and support services.

Why Join Us?

• Make a Difference: Help create positive change for SEND children and their families.
• Flexible Working: Work around school schedules with term-time-only hours.
• Supportive & Inclusive Environment: Join a passionate team dedicated to parent-carer empowerment.
• Resources and training Provided: A laptop will be supplied to support your work.
• Paid Expenses: Work-related travel expenses reimbursed.

Key Responsibilities

• Empower Parent Carers: Establish and facilitate Parent Carer Engagement Groups.
• Strengthen Parent-School Collaboration: Working with school leadership to improve coproduction with SEND families and strengthen relationships.
• Represent the voice of SEND families: Help identify key priorities and concerns raised by parents and carers of children with additional needs and SEND.
• Drive Positive Change: Support the development of strategies that improve inclusion, communication, and support for SEND students.
• Gather & Share Insights: Collect feedback from parent groups and ensure their voices are represented in school and local authority and health discussions.
• Support Families: Signpost parents and carers to relevant information, so that they can engage effectively with health, education, and social care services.

Due to the nature of the project, this role will include organising and attending parent carer groups in schools to coincide with the start or end of the school day along with other SVW parent carer engagement events. The administrative side of this role is more flexible, to suit parent carers' commitments and responsibilities. There will also be the requirement to host some evening sessions for working families who cannot attend in-person day-time.

For more details, please see the:SVW Engagement Officer - Job Description & Person Specification

To apply, please send your CV and covering letter detailing your suitability for the role to info@sendvoiceswokingham.org.uk by 5pm on Friday10^th July.

Interviews will be held on Friday 17^thJuly 2026. For more information, please contact Terri Walsh via email: info@sendvoiceswokingham.org.uk

SVW are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We operate a rigorous selection process, and the identity of the successful candidate will be checked thoroughly. You will be required to provide proof of your right to work in the UK and a DBS check will be carried out for this role.

Please be aware that we will be reviewing the applications we receive on a daily basis, and we reserve the right to close the advert early if a suitable candidate is identified.