Education Welfare Officer

The successful candidate will be required to speak English to an appropriate standard.
This post requires an Enhanced DBS Check
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How do we sum up Barnsley Council? Well, we're a double award-winning, high-performing council with a growing economy, a thriving town centre and some truly impressive outcomes in our communities. This is why we've been awarded Council of the Year for 2023 by the Local Government Chronicle (LGC) and The Municipal Journal (MJ).
Our excellent Children's Services has been a key part of our win; we're so proud of what we've achieved not just for the council but for our partners and Barnsley.
We're impressed. Are you? It's the perfect time to join our excellent team.
About the Post:
Like all of us here at Barnsley, you will care about children young people and their education. So you'll relish this opportunity to play a part in ensuring pupils attend school regularly in order to achieve their full potential. At a time of exciting change, you will work with partner agencies and with our schools and academies to improve attendance and reduce suspensions.
Barnsley Council focuses on creativity, ambition and people. Our award-winning council is on an exciting journey of change. It's all about putting local people at the heart of everything we do. We're now more innovative, more efficient and provide better value for money. The changes are clear to see - from new businesses and jobs, to improving school results and to museums being recognised for their community engagement.
Shape a better future with us
Join us on our journey to a brighter future. By working together, with each other and with our communities, we can take pride in improving lives. Let's make a better Barnsley for everyone.
Your role in our journey
As an Education Welfare Officer you will develop positive working relationships with schools, academies, and families. You will identify pupils who are not attending regularly and create robust responses to improving whole school attendance. You will also work alongside schools to improve inclusion and access to education.
You will undertake partnership working with parents and pupils to identify need and negotiate pathways to ensure all pupils attend school regularly and achieve their best possible outcomes.
What you'll need
To join us, you'll need 4 GCSEs at grades A-C, or an equivalent qualification in a relevant field, with a willingness to work towards an NVQ level 4. You will also have experience of working in home school liaison to negotiate positive outcomes for pupils; you'll bring to the role, knowledge, experience and skills required to complete assessments in line with Barnsley's assessment and threshold criteria. Your good communication skills and proven ability to keep up to date records will support you in providing and presenting evidence based reports. You will be flexible in your approach and have the ability to work under pressure.
A lot to look forward to
Here at Barnsley, we live and work by four important values: honesty, teamwork, excellent service, and taking pride in what we do. As part of our team, you can be sure we'll do all we can to support you in being truly excellent. You see, we prioritise learning and enabling you to achieve your potential. So we've created a development process that lets you grow in the way that suits you - whether that's training to be a leader, or learning flexibly online. That's one of the reasons why we achieved IIP Gold, and why you'll find your career here inspiring and rewarding.
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Please use the documents below to help support you with your application form.
Job Profile: Education Welfare Officer Job Profile.pdf
Vacancy Exposure Profile: Exposure Profile.pdf
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Why work for us?
Please ensure you view the job profile for this role, as you will need to demonstrate in your application form / or in your CV & covering letter how you meet the required criteria.
We welcome the opportunity to have a chat about the role and are happy to address any questions you may have about flexible working arrangements, including as a result of caring responsibilities.
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