Elective Home Education Officer - Children and Young People's Service - Normanton
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- Normanton, West Yorkshire
- Temporary
- Full-time
- 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
- 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
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