Education Welfare Officer

Job Title: Education Welfare Officer
Location: Hillingdon
Pay Rate: �23 Umbrella P/H
Job Type: Contract
The Role
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.

The Candidate

• A recognised qualification in a related profession e.g. Education, youth work, child and family development
• Full UK driving licence and use of own vehicle
• Ability to undertake occasional evening and weekend work
• Experience of working as an education welfare officer / school attendance officer / equivalent, or direct face to face working with pupils and parents in an educational or social care setting for a minimum of one year

How to apply
Please submit your application via the contact details provided and you will be contacted with further information about this opportunity or email your CV to me directly ; or call me on (phone number removed)