Education Welfare Officer - London, United Kingdom - Akton Recruitment

Akton Recruitment

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Education Welfare Officer

Children's Services

Lambeth

£26.07/hr

To act as lead professional for Alternative Provision Settings and Specialist Settings where a family's presenting needs are around school attendance, using a whole family approach to improve outcomes for the family and tackle the root causes of the child/ young person's poor attendance or absence from school.
The post holder will also be responsible for acting as a community connector and capacity builder within their allocated schools and locality, participating fully in Locality Action Panels and supporting colleagues to manage attendance and welfare issues creatively and proactively.
To conduct direct work with children and young people to improve their school attendance and unpick the issues between the young person and their education provider.
To maximise the attendance of pupils at Altnerative Provision and Specialist Settings. To facilitate the attendance and participation of vulnerable children in particular those who experiencing bullying or are on child protection register as well as those children atr risk of missing education as part of the national Troubled Families Programme.
To ensure a multiagency approach in meeting the needs of pupils to raise attendance levels by liaising where necessary with other partners including Social Care, Inclusion Teams, Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Youth Justicw Service (YJS) to ensure high levels of education provision are provided.
To provide expert advice, support and case consultation for Alternative Provision and Special schools where a children was at risk of poor school attendance, persistent absence, missing education or being excluded.

Key Responsibility Areas:

To undertake the full range of assessment, planning and reviewing activity in relation to children and families with additional needs relating to education welfare

This will include:
- supporting Alternative Provision and Specialist settings and families to achieve positive outcomes for their pupils/selves

Coordinating work across networks, communities and agencies to support families
Providing evidencebased support
Sound decisionmaking with an appropriate level of independence and autonomy
Taking the initiative, to form constructive alliances and to act as a change agent
Modelling good practice for universal and community professionals
Undertaking direct work with children, young people and their families on an individual or group basis.
To be responsible for arranging and facilitating meetings with parents, pupil's, schools and other agencies, ensure that Lambeth Council is represented to a high standard and operates within the legislative framework.
To act as the link between Education and Early Help Services
Where there is a contravention of the education act and court action is deemed appropriate, to support in the delivery of the "PACE" caution on the local authority's behalf.
To chair the Borough Court Panels in accordance with statutory duties.
To prepare and present evidence to the Magistrates & Family Proceedings Court, as instructed by the Education Welfare and Enforcement Manager.
To work co-operatively with the wider early help partnership and other services such as SEND, YJS, Social Care, CAMHS to improve attendance and reduce absence and take lead on the issues arising from non-attendance and pupils out of school

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