SPECIALIST EXPERTISE & CONSULTANCY
The right expertise around the need.
Through Experts at Hand, Rise brings together specialist professionals who can support a child or young person, strengthen a setting, contribute to a wider Rise service or help organisations respond to more complex SEND challenges.
WHO WE WORK WITH
Schools & Academies
Multi-Academy Trusts
Local Authorities
Care Providers
Parents & Carers
EXPERTS AT HAND
Specialist knowledge. Practical involvement. Brought together around what is needed.
Experts at Hand gives Rise access to a broad network of specialist expertise that can be brought around a child, young person, setting or wider SEND challenge.
You do not need to know which professional you need before speaking to us. Tell us what is happening and we can help identify the expertise that could make a difference and how it should connect into the wider support.
Identify the right expertise
Help work out what specialist input could be useful around the situation.
Support practice and implementation
Experts can advise, model approaches, coach teams and help turn recommendations into practice.
Bring specialists into the solution
Specialist input can sit alongside EIAP, onsite provision, care support or a wider programme.
Combine expertise where needed
More than one specialist can contribute where the situation needs a joined-up response.
One young person. One setting. A wider system.
Around a young person
Specialist advice, assessment, strategies or direct input around individual strengths, needs and barriers.
Around a setting
Specialist input, provision review, coaching and practical support to strengthen what happens day to day.
Consultancy, service design, reform support and implementation work across organisations or local systems.
Around a wider SEND challenge
Consultancy, service design, reform support and implementation work across organisations or local systems.
Specialist advice, assessment, strategies or direct input around individual strengths, needs and barriers.
Our specialist expertise
Educational Psychology
Occupational Therapy
Specialist psychological insight around learning, development, inclusion and barriers to participation.
Specialist input around sensory processing, participation, independence and everyday functioning.
SEND Leadership & SENDCO Expertise
Speech, Language & Communication Support
Support around SEND strategy, inclusion, provision development and leadership practice.
Specialist support around communication, interaction and the environments that help young people participate.
Counselling & Therapeutic Support
Behaviour & Regulation Support
Appropriate therapeutic expertise around emotional wellbeing, relationships and engagement.
Practical specialist input around regulation, behaviour, relationships and supportive approaches.
Safeguarding Expertise
Social Work & Family Support
Specialist advice around safeguarding practice, systems, risk and organisational response.
Expertise around children, families, social care and coordinated support where appropriate.
Specialist advice that leads to action.
Rise consultancy is practical and implementation-focused. We can review what is happening, identify gaps, help design the response and stay involved as plans are put into practice, whether around one setting, a group of settings or a wider SEND system.
01 SEND & Inclusion Reviews
Looking at current practice, barriers, strengths and where provision could be strengthened.
02Â Provision Design & Development
Helping shape new provision or improve what is already in place.
03Â Early Intervention Models
Developing practical approaches that identify and respond to needs earlier.
04Â Implementation Support
Helping organisations turn plans and recommendations into day-to-day practice.
05Â Safeguarding & Quality Support
Specialist input around systems, practice, review and improvement.
06Â Coaching & Capacity Building
Working alongside teams so knowledge and confidence remain within the setting.
SEND Reform, Tier 1 & Inclusion
Rise can support schools, trusts, Local Authorities and partners to strengthen mainstream inclusion, intervene earlier and bring specialist expertise closer to the settings where children and young people are already supported.
Tier 1 Outreach & Early Intervention
Experts at Hand & Workforce Capability
Reform & Implementation Support
Specialist outreach into mainstream settings through consultation, observation, targeted support, coaching and practical strategies, helping needs be understood and responded to before they escalate.
Specialists can work alongside existing teams through advice, modelling, coaching and targeted input, helping build confidence and sustainable capability within the setting.
Support to review current provision, develop inclusive approaches, design delivery models and turn SEND reform priorities into practical implementation.
From investment to evidence.
01
Baseline
Understand the starting position, identified need and what support or provision is already in place.
02
Plan
Agree priorities, intended outcomes, activity, responsibilities and how progress will be tracked.
03
Implement
Put the agreed support, specialist input or improvement activity into practice.
Measure
04
Track delivery, participation, progress and relevant indicators as the work develops.
Evidence
Measure
05
Bring together data, feedback, activity and examples that show what has been delivered and what has changed.
Evidence
06
Review
Review impact, identify learning and use the evidence to inform what happens next.
Build knowledge within your team.
Where it forms part of the wider specialist work, Experts at Hand can provide bespoke workshops, coaching, CPD and practice development shaped around the needs of the setting, service or team.
Specialist Workshops
Team Coaching
Bespoke CPD
Practice Development
How specialist support comes together
01
Tell us what’s happening
Start with the situation rather than choosing a service or professional.
04
Agree the support
We define the role, scope and practical arrangements.
02
Understand the need
We look at what is happening, what has been tried and what needs to change.
05
Put it into practice
Specialists work alongside the young person, team, setting or wider project as agreed.
03
Identify the expertise
We work out which specialist input could add value.
06
Review what changes
We review the work, what difference it is making and what should happen next.