Senior Education Welfare Officer - Hatched Recruitment UK : Job Details

Senior Education Welfare Officer

Hatched Recruitment UK

Job Location : South East London, UK

Posted on : 25/11/2024 - Valid Till : 02/12/2024

Job Description :

Senior Education Welfare Officer

Southwark

£27/hr

Start date: ASAP

Full Time: Mon - Fri: 36/hrs

Hatched Recruitment is looking for a Senior Education Welfare Officer in the Southwark area. 3 - 6 months contract.

Purpose of the job

  • To provide an effective and targeted education inclusion service in a specialist team within Southwark's Family Early Help service and delivering upon the Council's Fairer Future promises in supporting children, young people and their families.
  • To work in partnership with parents, young people and schools to ensure that all children of compulsory school age access education.
  • To ensure at all times that maximum effort is given to keeping young people in education with particular attention given to promoting full-time attendance (for those of compulsory school age) and preventing exclusion through educational achievement, positive behaviour and constructive activity for the children and young people of Southwark. To promote and support schools, families and young people with steps to prevent permanent exclusion including the use of managed moves where appropriate, supporting the development of multi-agency agency plans to keep children and young people in school.

Principal accountabilities

The post holder will be required to carry out the following functions:

  • 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 support and promote schools where appropriate to make use of alternatives to permanent exclusion, including managed moves where appropriate, reducing the number of permanently excluded pupils
  • 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 (especially schools) and to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people and their families who may be vulnerable as a result of poor school attendance or risk of exclusion.
  • 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.

    • Salary : 27 - 27

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