Education Welfare Officer - London, United Kingdom - Akton Recruitment

Akton Recruitment

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Education Welfare Officer

Hillingdon

£23/hr

Start date:
ASAP

AKTON Recruitment is working closely with the local authorities and we are looking for a Education Welfare Officer in the Hillingdon area months contract.

Job Purpose:

The Education Welfare Officer will enable pupils to receive maximum benefit from the education provision made available to them by assisting their regular attendance at school through:

Supporting individual pupils and their parents
Enabling effective communication between parents, carers, guardians and school
Monitoring school and pupil attendance data to provide support and focus efforts to unblock wider barriers to attendance
Helping allocated schools develop effective policies and procedures on attendance through termly conversations with school attendance leads sing data to identify pupils and cohorts at risk of poor attendance.

Key responsibilities:

To develop, implement and review Attendance Plans for pupils and their families designed to help them overcome nonattendance difficulties.
To engage parents in attendance contacts and in formal meetings regarding poor attendance.
To deliver interventions directly to young people and / or the family unit and where required broker services, as part of the plan, from partner agencies, voluntary or community groups.
To be persistent in the engagement of families or individuals who may be resistant by using assertive, creative and practical engagement strategies.
To identify and work with the school and the family of pupils who persistently and severely absent, or at risk of becoming so.
To work and maintain effective communications with partner agencies and support family members in accessing and engaging with universal and targeted services as required.
To attend case conferences, statutory reviews, court and other meetings as required.
To maintain timely and concise electronic case records and written reports that evidence the work undertaken and the progress achieved.
When required, take statutory action against parents using penalty fines and preparing witness statements for the Family Proceedings or Magistrates Court.
To review termly attendance data with allocated schools to identify action to improve attendance for individual pupils and meet school attendance targets.