Senior Education Welfare Officer
Senior Education Welfare Officer
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Job Description
We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Southwark to assist with the appointment of a Senior Education Welfare Officer on a 3month contract likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.
Rate of Pay: 21.99 29.01 per Hour
Summary:
This is a specialist role focused on ensuring all children of compulsory school age access education promoting fulltime attendance preventing exclusion and delivering timely interventions to support families and schools.
Responsibilities:
- To assess maintain and progress a caseload of families who require targeted intervention in relation to attendance or inclusion in accordance with service procedures with the aim of addressing the targeted needs identified and assessed within service standards using a Team Around the Family (TAF) approach.
- To use a variety of professional skills including consultation identification assessment intervention planning/delivery and review to promote effective partnerships between stakeholders children and young people their parents/carers practitioners and education providers who work with them.
- To develop implement and review a range of innovative strategies to promote and improve learning/development parental capacity attendance/access and behaviour (with a particular regard for underachieving cohorts)
- To ensure that all evidence for prosecution is quality assured and all evidence meets required standards for prosecution.
- To support Family Early Help procedures in relation to the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) and Team Around the School (TAS) procedures including attendance at the latter.
Knowledge and Qualifications:
- Relevant professional qualification in education social work or youth services (desirable).
- Strong knowledge of the Education Act 1996 and legal planning processes related to attendance and exclusion.
Experience Required:
- Proven experience in education inclusion attendance enforcement or a related area.
- Experience working with children families and schools in multiagency settings.
Essential Skills:
- Strong communication and advocacy skills.
- Ability to manage caseloads and conduct thorough assessments.
- Skilled in early intervention risk management and supporting positive educational outcomes.
Please note:
- You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
- You should have right to work in U.K
- This role requires a Basic DBS
Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary though assignments can be and often are extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
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Employment Type
Full Time
