Elective Home Education Officer - Children and Young People's Service - Normanton

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Elective Home Education Officer - Children and Young People’s Service - Normanton

Are you a passionate, dedicated Education Officer looking for your next role? 4Recruitment Services are recruiting an Elective Home Education Officer to join a team based in Normanton.

Umbrella Rate: £19.03 per hour 

Duration: 3 months initially

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am – 4.30pm, 37 hrs/week – Hybrid

Home Education Officer role: Full JD Available

Work in conjunction with Education Welfare Officers in assisting with elective home education
Manage a caseload of electively home educated pupils, ensuring every child receives a suitable education
Maintain Wakefield Education Welfare Service register for EHE pupils
Adopting a whole family approach, in order to reduce risk and improving outcomes for children
Liaise with EHE parents/carers, receiving reports of work undertaken
Participate in assessments
Establish the reason for absences having an awareness and recognition of the needs of individual family’s
Liaise with parents and carers through giving advice and guidance then referring to early help or social services where appropriate when there is a safeguarding concern
Develop and deliver, a coherent plan of proven and innovative interventions to families develop and implement attendance improvement projects alongside school staff
Monitor data from schools and work with them on improving their performance indicators for attendance
Promote school attendance via attendance strategies, assemblies, punctuality clinics, open evenings, parents’ evenings etc..
Contribute to School Inclusion Reviews, attend Annual Reviews and meetings concerning children with special needs who are part of your case load
Lead and attend multi-agency meetings to help support a better outcome for the family and inevitably improve the child/ young person’s school attendance
Ensure that all documentation including, written reports and information relating to individual cases of interventions is accurate, timely and entered onto appropriate management systems
Essential Requirements

UK Driving Licence, access to a vehicle, business insurance
A good standard of Educational and/or vocational qualifications to A level standard, including Maths and English at GCSE Grade A-C or equivalent
Experience of working within an educational based setting
Substantial experience of working with ‘hard to reach’ individuals, parents, young people and children, with complex and challenging needs
Experience in giving guidance, in relation to education welfare service provision to; schools, attendance staff, Headteacher, governors and other multi agency partners
Experience of understanding issues that impact children and families as they relate to irregular school attendance and overall well-being
Experience in using IT systems - full understanding and good working practice of data protection and safeguarding
You Must Have Right to Live & Work in the UK
Enhanced Child DBS registered to the update service
We also offer an outstanding referral scheme for any Education Officer friends or colleagues.

If you are an Education Officer and would like to express your interest, please contact us for this great opportunity by calling on (phone number removed) and speak to Sammy Davis Or email on,  

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer