Senior Inclusion Advisor - Access and Children Missing Education

London Borough of Hounslow; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council in England is seeking a Senior Inclusion Advisor to join their Access to Education team. This role involves engaging with families and professionals to ensure children and young people can access suitable education. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, knowledge of educational legislation, and experience in supporting families. The work environment values diversity, inclusion, and collaborative problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience working with families, children and young people.
• Understanding of CME, EHE, Fair Access, and other education policies.
• Essential enhanced DBS check.

Responsibilities

• Engage with families, schools, and agencies to support children’s access to education.
• Promote a holistic approach to complex casework.
• Work within the Access to Education team to improve outcomes for children.

Skills

Clear communication

Proactive problem-solving

Collaborative working

Knowledge of legislation

Education

Related qualifications in mentoring or coaching

Job description

About Us At Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough.

With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to take a lead role in our Access to Education team as a Senior Inclusion Advisor. The successful candidate will join a hard-working team engaging with families, schools and other agencies to ensure children and young people access and progress in education aligned to their needs and circumstances.

We are looking for a knowledgeable and experienced advisor keen to ensure children and young people access high quality and varied alternative provision and are safe, happy, and learning.

The Access to Education team take a positive and inclusive approach in line with our duty to secure suitable full-time education for children and young people in Hounslow.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

The Access to Education team play a crucial role in ensuring that children and young people access the learning they are entitled to. There is a particular focus on those not on school roll or receiving other suitable education.

This diverse role focusses on bringing together expertise within CME, EHE and Fair Access functions to ensure every child or young person has the access they are entitled to, and they are placed at the most suitable provider for them. This involves direct work with families, schools, specialist and advisory services, and sits within a wider Education Inclusion & Participation service in Hounslow.

The team work hard to develop strong, positive relationships with all parties and maintain a clear focus on the progress and needs of the child or young person.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

• Being a clear communicator, proactive problem solver and collaborative worker with a clear focus on the importance of children being able to access education.
• Having a sound knowledge of and interest in the legislative framework for Children Missing Education, Elective Home Education, Fair Access, and other Local Authority functions in relation to full-time education for children and young people of compulsory school age.
• Ability to promote collaborative working to ensure a holistic approach, engaging a wide range of professionals in complex casework working with both children and adults as required, to support the team around the child/family process.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Substantial experience working directly with families, children and young people, and education, social care and health professionals in the context of any or all the functions – CME, EHE, Exclusions, or Fair Access - is advantageous.
• Related qualifications in mentoring, coaching, work with children, young people, and families are advantageous also.
  
  

Essential For The Role:

Enhanced DBS

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

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Interviews for this job will be held week commencing 22nd September 2025.

Email:

Telephone: [phone]

Interviews for this job will be held week commencing 22nd September 2025.