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Job Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: 34350 - 37950 per annum
Working Hours:37 Hours Per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 19th June 2025
Interview Date(s): 30th June 2025
The Inclusion Service are looking for an Education Officer to join the team. If you are passionate about Inclusion and access to education we would love to hear from you.
About the Role
The Inclusion Service works with children young people and their families to access education and support them to achieve the best outcomes possible. This role within the Service is aimed at ensuring children with medical needs are able to access education whilst they are too unwell to attend school. The role will also involve some work with Pupils Missing Education Elective Home Education and post 16 young people.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post you must:
- Have an understanding of the statutory legislation that governs education particularly around children missing education behaviour attendance children with health needs SEND.
- Significant experience of working with children young people and families in either case work or education settings including completing assessments.
- The ability to work independently as part of a team and in collaboration with partners and other professionals.
- Experience of engaging with young people and their families who are vulnerable or from a hard to reach group and supporting them to achieve Educational related outcomes
- Good organisational planning skills and working to deadlines
- Excellent and engaging communication skills; written verbal and presentation with varying audiences.
- Possession of a valid driving licence access to a vehicle and relevant insurances. However a reasonable adjustment will be considered for an applicant with a disability.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working part-time hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Emma Wiltshire -Team Manager
Telephone:
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
