Senior Learning Mentor EHE Officer

Beighton; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Generous holiday entitlement

Job summary

Sheffield City Council is seeking an enthusiastic EHE (Elective Home Education) practitioner to support safeguarding and children’s wellbeing. You’ll work with home educators to assess provision, provide curriculum guidance, and collaborate with schools and professionals to achieve positive educational outcomes.

The post is hybrid, traveling around Sheffield and working from the office, home and other locations. You will... (continues in ad content)

Qualifications

• Experience in engaging with families and providing information and guidance.
• Ability to assess parental provision and educational needs.
• Knowledge of curriculum levels, progress and SEN considerations.

Responsibilities

• Support Local Authority statutory functions for home education by assessing parental provision.
• Provide information, advice and signposting to parents choosing home education.
• Complete holistic assessments and annual reviews of educational provision.
• Offer personalised curriculum guidance to ensure suitable provision.
• Liaise with schools and professionals on EHE policy and practice.
• Deliver curriculum guidance sessions to families and conduct home visits.
• Maintain records and required data for caseloads and safeguarding.

Skills

Engaging families

Curriculum advice

Risk assessment

Multi-agency working

Education

GCSEs in Maths & English (9-4)

Degree level education

Teaching qualification

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

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, assessing parental provision and providing curriculum advice and guidance.

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.

Specific duties will include:

• Supporting the Local Authority to deliver its statutory functions in relation to children educated at home by assessing parental provision.
• Providing information, advice and signposting to parents electing to provide an education at home.
• Employing specialist knowledge of curriculum levels, progress, attainment and special education needs to complete holistic educational assessments of initial curriculum plans alongside annual reviews of ongoing educational provision.
• Using specialist knowledge to provide personalised curriculum guidance to minimise unsuitable education, taking appropriate actions and completing next steps where necessary.
• Providing specialist knowledge regarding expectations and criteria of parental provision. Implementing contextualised professional judgement in parental and professional meetings. Contributing to statutory assessment such as SEN reviews and panel meetings to inform other professionals and identify appropriate provision. Liaise with, and offer advice to, schools and other professionals regarding EHE policy and practice.
• Providing clear guidance and advice to families working towards suitable provision.
• Forming positive relationships with families and offering a range of information, advice and guidance. Delivering curriculum advice sessions to families requiring support with the planning and delivery of their home education.
• Conducting home visits, meetings, telephone appointments and drop-in sessions.
• Holding and managing a caseload of complex and non-complex children, prioritising work in accordance with service priorities, policies and relevant legislation.
• Identifying barriers to learning and developing strategies to resolve educational issues.
• Developing and maintaining knowledge of all relevant policy including EHE guidance, relevant case law, CME policy, admissions procedures, safeguarding, etc
• Multi-agency working.
• Contributing to the collection of child-led data and pupil mapping, utilising signs of safety and EHE expectations.
• Maintaining records, assessments, reports and providing data as and when required.

You must have GCSE’s in Maths and English (grade 9-4) or equivalent, be educated to degree level and have a teaching qualification. 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.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyoneand where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.