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Senior Education Welfare Officer - Nunhead - Job - iPeople SC Solutions Limited

iPeople Solutions

London

On-site

GBP 30,000 - 40,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Education Welfare Officer in Southwark to provide effective educational inclusion services. The successful candidate will manage school attendance, work collaboratively with families and schools, and contribute to preventing exclusions for children and young people in the community. This role emphasizes proactive assessment and multi-agency cooperation to support educational success.

Qualifications

Enhanced DBS on the update service.
Previous experience as an Education Welfare Officer.

Responsibilities

Ensure children attend school and prevent exclusions.
Provide timely assessment for young people at risk of exclusion.
Collaborate with parents and educators to support attendance.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Conflict Resolution

Assessment Skills

Problem Solving

Education

Previous experience as an Education Welfare Officer

Enhanced DBS on the update service

Senior Education Welfare Officer – Nunhead

iPeople SC Solutions is currently recruiting fora Senior Education Welfare Officer for our client based in Southwark and surrounding areas.

The successful post holder willprovide 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.

Duties and Responsibilities

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.
To provide a timely and effective service to schools, families and other stakeholders in relation to the discharge of Southwark Council’s statutory responsibilities in relation to attendance and inclusion, including delivering on the full range of parental responsibility measures up to and including prosecution for persistent non-attendance.
To provide timely and effective screening and assessment for young people assessed as being at risk of exclusion, ensuring that appropriate support and intervention is secured at the earliest opportunity using a Team Around the Family approach.
To conduct attendance investigations where necessary and provide expert advice and consultation to schools, Family Early Help practitioners and social workers where the threshold for enforcement action is met and in preparing cases for the education legal planning process.
To lead on education legal planning meetings, education supervision orders, parenting orders and interviews under caution in order to progress and present cases at magistrates court and family court under the Education Act (1996) where appropriate.
To contribute to the screening and locating of children missing education (CME) on behalf of the Family Early Help Service via attendance at the CME panel in liaison with schools and parents, to ensure those children access education as soon as possible in accordance with Southwark’s CME protocol.
To proactively provide oversight and consultation to Family Early Help practitioners and managers to ensure that all cases meeting the threshold for enforcement action for persistent non-attendance are identified screened and that timely and appropriate decisions are made and recorded in relation to the need for escalation to education legal planning.

Requirement

Enhanced DBS on the update service
Previousexperience as aEducation Welfare Officer

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