Education Welfare Officer

your Jared; Winsford; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Local Living Wage £13.45/hour

Job summary

Cheshire West and Chester Council is seeking an Education Welfare Officer to strengthen attendance services within Education Welfare Service in Winsford. You will work with schools to manage attendance, remove barriers, and ensure pupils receive full-time education.

The role requires strong people and data skills, experience with schools, and the ability to collaborate with partners. Flexible working is available, with a Local Living Wage and DBS check as part of recruitment.

Qualifications

• Experience working with schools and partners.
• Strong people and data skills.
• Ability to develop and implement attendance improvement plans.

Responsibilities

• Deliver effective school attendance services and support statutory duties.
• Collaborate with schools, families, and partners to remove attendance barriers.
• Prepare and participate in network meetings and inspections.

Skills

People skills

Data skills

Experience with schools

Job description

Education Welfare Officer

Working within Education & Inclusion (Education Welfare Service) to deliver effective, high quality, school attendance services and make sure the Council meets its statutory duties around school attendance. To work closely with schools to enable them to manage their attendance and provide opportunities for all pupils to attend and learn. To work in collaboration with a wide range of partners.

Cheshire West and Chester Council brings a fresh and energetic approach to providing top quality services for its many customers and communities. West Cheshire is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.

Improving school attendance is everyone’s business. The barriers to accessing education are wide and complex, both within and beyond the school gates, and are often specific to individual pupils and families.

Some pupils find it harder than others to attend school and therefore at all stages of improving attendance, schools and partners should work with pupils and parents to remove any barriers to attendance by building strong and trusting relationships and working together to put the right support in place to enable pupils to access the full‑time education to which they are entitled.

Securing good attendance needs effective practices for improvement and involves close interaction with schools’ efforts on curriculum, behaviour, bullying, special educational needs support, pastoral and mental health and wellbeing, and effective use of resources, including pupil premium.

The team quality assures and process all the legal intervention requests; investigates Children Missing in Education enquiries; prepares and facilitates half termly Network Meetings and Good Practice sharing session to school staff; completes the Statutory Targeted Support Meetings and Register Inspections; support schools to be Ofsted ready and is pivotal to helping schools keep children safe and ensuring their full entitlement to their education.

Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.

We are looking for applicant who is experienced in working with schools and has great people skills and data skills too to join our strong and supportive Education Welfare Service based in Winsford. If you are motivated to develop best practice, work on your own initiative, support the team to provide a high quality service, have strong reflective practise and direction and are enthusiastic about contributing to service development for the team; then we would welcome your application.

Should you require any information about the post then please direct any queries to Morag Bragger 01606 275759 or via email: [e-mail]

Interviews will he held on 1 October 2026.

Please note that this job is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

FLEXIBLE WORKING - Flexible working arrangements ensure you can achieve a healthy work life balance. The contractual work location for this role is listed above. You may be required to work from a range of work locations or sites within the Borough and will also be required to work from home, depending on the needs of the service.

To find out more information about what it is like to work for Cheshire West and Chester Council including our rewards and benefits please see www.cwcrecruitment.co.uk

No candidate will meet every single requirement - if your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

Cheshire West and Chester Council are committed to equality and diversity in employment. Please see the Equality Policy for more information.

Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £13.45 per hour for all contracted hours.

For any technical enquiries please email [e-mail] and quote job reference number in all correspondence.