Family Intervention Worker Elective Home Education Service

Westfield Secondary School; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Westfield Secondary School's Elective Home Education Service seeks a proactive Family Intervention Worker to support safeguarding and children's wellbeing. You will engage with home educators, explain EHE procedures, and help families access suitable education in line with DfE guidelines.

The role involves multi-agency collaboration, visits to families, signposting to SENDSARS and other services, maintaining case records, and contributing to pupil mapping and assessments while prioritising

Qualifications

• GCSE Maths and English (grade 9-4) or equivalent.
• Significant experience working with vulnerable children and families, promoting engagement and assessing risk.
• Ability to travel around Sheffield and work flexibly as required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct initial wellbeing visits/appointments to explain the EHE service and provide information.
• Signpost home educators to additional support and agencies (SENDSARS, Children Missing Education, admissions, SSENDIAS).
• Oversee referral documentation and EHE notifications via schools/professionals.
• Maintain pupil records, case files and reports; provide data when required.
• Attend and contribute to professional meetings to advocate for the child and inform professionals/parents.
• Respond to non-engagement and undertake planned/unannounced visits.
• Support pupil transitions between school, college or home.
• Develop understanding of internal EHE frameworks and policies and other agencies' referral processes.

Skills

GCSE Maths

GCSE English

Stakeholder engagement

Risk assessment

Job description

Family Intervention Worker: Elective Home Education Service

We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled individual to join the Elective Home Education (EHE) Service to support our commitment to safeguarding and general wellbeing. The successful candidate will work with home educators to support children’s access to a suitable education in line with the Department for Education’s EHE Guidelines and other key policy documents. This role will involve engaging home educators, building positive relations and providing information about local authority expectations and EHE Service processes. Experience of working with families, delivering information, providing support, signposting and assessing needs are key.

This post will involve multi-agency working; you will work alongside schools and other professionals to support the best possible educational outcomes for children educated at home. This is a hybrid full-time permanent post and will involve travelling around Sheffield alongside working from the office, home and other locations.

Please note, the Intervention role within the Elective Home Education Service, focuses on parental provision as opposed to school attendance. This post does not center on long-term or ongoing family work with a specific caseload of children. This post will primarily involve short-term contact with families at the start of their home education.

Specific duties will include:

• Conducting initial wellbeing visits, meetings or appointments with EHE families to explain the role of the EHE service, provide initial information and advice regarding EHE processes and criteria for EHE. Explain the educational expectations and responsibilities of EHE whilst offering support and advice.
• Liaising with other professionals to find alternative educational options when required in line with service policies, making onward referrals as and when needed.
• Signposting home educators to additional support and providing links to other professionals and agencies such as SENDSARS, Children Missing Education, admissions, SSENDIAS, etc
• Overseeing referral documentation and EHE notifications via contact with schools/professionals, identifying barriers and information sharing.
• Completing pupil mapping and RAG rating.
• Attending and contributing to professional meetings and reviews to advocate for the child or provide information and advice to other professionals or parents.
• Responding to non-engagement and undertaking planned and unannounced visits.
• Supporting pupil transitions between school, college or home.
• Making contact with any child or family known to the Service as and when required, prioritising actions and contact based on safeguarding priorities and educational need.
• Supporting the work of EHE Officers and other team members.
• Developing and maintaining a good understanding of internal EHE frameworks and policies, alongside DFE guidance for EHE. Developing a solid working understanding of other relevant agencies and their referral processes.
• Multi-agency working.
• Contributing to the collection of child-led data and pupil mapping, utilising signs of safety and EHE expectations.
• Maintaining pupil records, case files, reports and providing data as and when required.

You must have GCSE’s in Maths and English (grade 9-4) or equivalent. Applicants must also have significant experience of working with vulnerable children and their families, promoting engagement and be skilled at understanding family dynamics and assessing risk.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.