Education Welfare Officer Roles
Education Welfare Officer x 3
Education Welfare Officer x 3, Countywide 37 hours per week – Term time only for 39 weeks Salary: £21,074 to £23,866 per annum – £18,207 to £20,619 per annum for 39 weeks term time only
The Education Welfare Service works with schools and families to ensure every child of statutory school age in Somerset accesses their full educational entitlement. This is achieved by taking action where necessary to secure regular attendance at school or monitoring and challenging Elective Home Education where necessary. This work supports all children in Somerset to be safe and to achieve to their full potential. The Education Welfare Service also have responsibility for tracking children missing from education and providing a licensing service for children in entertainment and chaperones.
You will be part of a busy team of Education Welfare Officers. You will hold a caseload and an allocation of schools, advising and supporting schools, parents and students to find solutions to resolve complex cases. Using specialist knowledge, you will build, maintain and develop good working relationships with attendance leads, Head Teachers, and other services/professionals concerned with the welfare and education of children. You will convene and chair meetings with parent/carers, pupils and schools and lead criminal investigations using statutory powers. Where appropriate you will prepare, on behalf of the Local Authority, prosecution cases in relation to non-school attendance. In addition, you will consider and use, appropriate statutory functions such as Penalty Notices to support the work of promoting school attendance. Therefore, excellent organisational skills are essential, it is imperative that you are able to prioritise your workload and manage regular deadlines effectively. Along with experience in administration, use of IT and working as part of a team, you will need to have excellent communication skills. A background of work in an education setting or family support would be advantageous. Flexibility and the ability to adapt to changing needs of the service is a necessary part of the role, making a positive and committed attitude a necessity.
For an informal discussion about the post please contact Ellie Dalwood, County Manager on 01935 463740 or email EVDalwood@somerset.gov.uk
Apply online at http://dasjobs.co.uk/job/education-welfare-officer-x-3/?route=scc
Closing date 27th August
Education Welfare Officer x 2
Education Welfare Officer x 2, Countywide 37 hours per week – Term time only for 39 weeks Salary: £21,074 to £23,866 per annum – £18,207 to £20,619 per annum for 39 weeks term time only This is a fixed term contract for 12 months
The Education Welfare Service works with schools and families to ensure every child of statutory school age in Somerset accesses their full educational entitlement. This is achieved by taking action where necessary to secure regular attendance at school or monitoring and challenging Elective Home Education where necessary. This work supports all children in Somerset to be safe and to achieve to their full potential. The Education Welfare Service also have responsibility for tracking children missing from education and providing a licensing service for children in entertainment and chaperones.
You will be part of a busy team of Education Welfare Officers. You will hold a caseload and an allocation of schools, advising and supporting schools, parents and students to find solutions to resolve complex cases. Using specialist knowledge, you will build, maintain and develop good working relationships with attendance leads, Head Teachers, and other services/professionals concerned with the welfare and education of children. You will convene and chair meetings with parent/carers, pupils and schools and lead criminal investigations using statutory powers. Where appropriate you will prepare, on behalf of the Local Authority, prosecution cases in relation to non-school attendance. In addition, you will consider and use, appropriate statutory functions such as Penalty Notices to support the work of promoting school attendance. Therefore, excellent organisational skills are essential, it is imperative that you are able to prioritise your workload and manage regular deadlines effectively. Along with experience in administration, use of IT and working as part of a team, you will need to have excellent communication skills. A background of work in an education setting or family support would be advantageous. Flexibility and the ability to adapt to changing needs of the service is a necessary part of the role, making a positive and committed attitude a necessity.
For an informal discussion about the post please contact Ellie Dalwood, County Manager on 01935 463740 or email EVDalwood@somerset.gov.uk
Apply online at http://dasjobs.co.uk/job/education-welfare-officer-x-2-copy/?route=scc
Closing date 27th August
Appeals Coordinator Role
Appeals Coordinator
Appeals Coordinator, Admissions & Entitlements Team, Taunton, 37 hours per week, Fixed term contract for 9 months
The Admissions and Entitlements Team play a vital role in administering school places and school admission appeals and providing support to parents and schools. The team are responsible for co-ordinating all starting and transferring school place applications, assessing school transport entitlement, researching and writing school admission appeals and monitoring in year school place applications.
This is an exciting opportunity to join Support Services for Education, on a fixed term/secondment basis. We are looking for a motivated individual to work in this friendly, busy and hardworking team. The position available is for a school appeal co-ordinator. The role is to supervise and quality assure the preparation of appeal statements by an admin officer in line with standard operating procedure ensuring compliance with the Local Authority’s statutory responsibility for admissions appeals. You will identify cases where the Authority cannot prove prejudice or where it would be unreasonable to proceed to appeal, presenting a recommendation and view school commissioning for consideration. You will be involved in making decisions when requests to admit pupils over the Admission Number/Limit are received. You will provide support to the Appeals Respondent in the preparation of school appeals.
Previous experience of working in a front line service would be advantageous. Good IT and communication skills and the ability to manage workload often requiring rapid response times is essential. A keen eye for detail is essential. Flexibility and the ability to adapt to changing needs of the service is a necessary part of the role, making a positive and committed attitude a necessity.
For an informal discussion about the post please contact Will Rochford, Appeal Respondent, 01823 358298.
Apply online at http://dasjobs.co.uk/job/appeals-coordinator/?route=scc
Closing date 31st August
Child Exploitation Conference - Save the Date
Child Exploitation Conference
Taunton Racecourse
Thursday 6th December 2018
Further details to follow soon
Late Autumn Deals at Kilve Court Residential Centre - Click here for more info
Late Autumn Term Specials
Y2, Y3 & 4: Your 1st Residential £40*
This curriculum linked 1 night residential introduces children to the thrills and challenges of an overnight experience with lots of outdoor learning opportunities, Health and wellbeing activities, and is designed to link closely to work pupils will do during the upcoming academic year.
Y5 & 6: Setting up the Academic Year £89*
This two-night residential is designed to inspire young people, introducing new learning environments, and support students to be better and more resilient learners during the year.
*please see the attachment for more information.
New Training Programme - Safer Recruitment
Course outline
Statutory Guidance continues to require a minimum of one member of any recruitment panel to have undertaken safer recruitment training.
Using the DfE authorised materials from the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, and delivered by accredited trainers, this programme explores the background and context of safer recruitment, defines a safe recruitment process and considers a strategy for maintaining a culture of safeguarding in organisations.
Participants must complete the whole day’s programme and all the included exercises and topic assessments to be awarded certification.
What is it?
Participants gain the skills they need to ensure that safeguarding is at the heart of their recruitment decisions. By the end of our one-day course, participants will have:
identified key features of staff recruitment that help deter or prevent the appointment of unsuitable people
considered policies and practices that minimise opportunities for abuse or ensure its prompt reporting
begun to review their own organisation’s policies and practices with a view to creating a safer culture.
The course is divided into modules:
setting the context for safer recruitment
safer recruitment processes
making the right decisions
an on-going culture of vigilance.
Click here to find courses?
