Elective Home Education Officer

North East Combined Authority; Tees Valley; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Middlesbrough Council's Access to Education team is seeking an Elective Home Education Officer (incorporating CEEL duties) to assess referrals, advise families and build partnerships with schools.

You will review learning plans, conduct home visits and help safeguard children while supporting parents to provide a high-quality education. This is a term-time role, 37 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Experience negotiating and influencing to secure positive outcomes.
• Good understanding of guidance relating to EHE and CEEL.
• Recent experience working with children and young people with the full range of abilities including SEN.

Responsibilities

• Assess EHE referrals from parents and offer guidance to families.
• Develop strong partnerships with school leaders and other stakeholders.
• Review schemes of work and learning resources to ensure effective learning plans.
• Conduct home visits to assess the learning environment at home.
• Assist in licensing of children for CEEL, including Child Employment Permits and Licences.
• Work as part of a team and independently, making difficult decisions when needed.

Job description

We have an exciting role on offer within our Children's services as an Elective Home Education Officer.

We are seeking to appoint an EHE (Elective Home Education) Officer (incorporating Child Entertainment Employment Licensing duties) to work within Middlesbrough Council's Access to Education team.

You will assess EHE referrals from parents, offer advice and guidance to families and develop strong partnerships with stakeholders including school leaders.

Your primary role is to ensure that children who are electively home educated receive an appropriate education. This will mean reviewing schemes of work and learning resources to ensure that the learning plans proposed by parents are effective. Home visits will allow you to assess the learning environment to ensure the child is able to learn at home.

Where parents are not ensuring the child receives an appropriate education, you will work with them to help them to improve the quality of education they are providing.If the parent is unable to offer a sufficiently high-quality education, you will work with the family and stakeholders to help return the child to school.

You will also assist in the licensing of children of compulsory school age who are working part-time or taking part in performances and entertainment (CEEL). As part of this we process applications in relation to Child Employment Permits, Child Performance Licences, Chaperone Approvals and Body of Persons Approvals ensuring that children are safeguarded and protected.

We are seeking applications from those who work well as part of a team, but who are also able to work independently. You will be skilled at building trusting relationships with professionals and families and robust enough to take difficult decisions when needed.

You must be able to evidence experience of negotiating and influencing competently and appropriately to secure positive outcomes.You will have a good understanding of relevant guidance relating to EHE and CEEL. It is essential you can demonstrate recent successful experience of working with children and young people with the full range of abilities including SEN.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with the ambition and skills to support us in our shared goal of providing an outstanding service. If you are passionate about improving children's life chances and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, you may be the right person for us. Comprehensive training will be available to the right candidate.

Please note, this vacancy is Term Time only, working 37 hours per week.

For an informal discussion, please contact Lynn Mitchell on 01642 201846.

The above post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Please note Middlesbrough Council do not currently offer sponsorships.

We operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for applicants that can show they meet all the essential criteria and have indicated they have a disability, are a looked after young person, care leaver or a veteran.