Elective Home Education Officer

Staffordshire County Council; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in the United Kingdom is looking for EHE Officers to support children and families in achieving educational potential. This role involves conducting home visits, ensuring compliance with education standards, and providing guidance to families in various districts. Ideal candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience in child development and safeguarding. Flexible working options are available.

Benefits

Supportive working environment

Healthy work-life balance

Qualifications

• At least NVQ 3 or equivalent in respect of working with children and their families.
• Experience enabling parents and children to take advantage of educational opportunities.
• Knowledge and experience of child development and safeguarding processes.

Responsibilities

• Ensure parents provide suitable education for their children.
• Conduct home visits and review educational reports.
• Develop and organize meetings for families and professionals.

Skills

Child development

Child safeguarding processes

Support and guidance

Education

NVQ 3 or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Are you passionate about supporting children and young people to achieve their full potential?

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Elective Home Education (EHE) Team for four new EHE Officers to work with students and their families in the Staffordshire Moorlands, Tamworth, South Staffordshire and Lichfield districts.

The roles are 12-month fixed term contracts.

Our EHE Team specialises in working with parents who chose to home educate their children and provides the following services:

• Support to parents in providing suitable education for their children
• A statutory function of the local authority in identifying children without a suitable education
• Information, advice and guidance to other agencies on EHE

Main Responsibilities

You will be working with families in either the Staffordshire Moorlands, Tamworth, South Staffordshire or Lichfield district.

As an EHE Officer you will hold responsibility for a number of children and will:

• ensure parents are providing a suitable education for their children
• offer support, information, advice and guidance to families and professionals
• complete home visits and review educational reports
• develop, facilitate and organise family and professionals' meetings, events and groups to ensure home education is delivered in line with statutory services and is both efficient and effective
• ensure EHE students are safeguarded in line with current legislation and guidance

The Ideal Candidate

You will have:

• at least NVQ 3 or equivalent in respect of working with children and their families
• experience of enabling parents and children to take full advantage of the educational opportunities available
• experience of working with parents and children in an education setting
• knowledge and experience of child development
• knowledge and experience of child safeguarding processes and procedures
• We're happy to talk flexible working

Please state in your Supporting Statement in the application which of the four areas - Staffordshire Moorlands, Tamworth, South Staffordshire and Lichfield districts you would prefer to work in.

If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact Neil Dutton (EHE Lead):

• Telephone - [phone]
• Email - [e-mail]

Shortlisting will take place on Monday 10/11/2025.

In person interviews will be held on Friday 14/11/2025.

Our Recruitment Process

We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you'll bring to the role.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.