Education Support Practitioner London, England
Job description
Our vision is for children and young people to be safe, healthy and able to achieve their full potential. Bright Futures offers support to families with children aged 5-19 in Islington. We work within three localities to offer responsive support to the needs of our community.
Alongside, Bright Start 0-5, Bright Futures strive to enable children, young people and families to access proportionate support locally.
Each locality has a universal offer, providing a rapid response to families and wrapping around universal services to manage emerging needs as early as possible. We offer case holding interventions to support families with multiple complex needs.
Education Support Workers offer local support to families, offering effective interventions that improve outcomes for children and young people, particularly in relation to attainment, attendance and reducing school exclusions. This will be achieved by being part of the school community, taking a proactive, assertive approach to supporting children to attend school. Offer in school support and work alongside practitioners already involved in a child’s life to improve educational outcomes.
Our vision is for children and young people to be safe, able to overcome difficulties and to form secure relationships through their childhood and into adulthood.
In 2020 we reviewed the way families are helped in Islington and have implemented the changes that our service users, staff and partners have told us would make the most difference to improving outcomes for families.
If you would like to be part of developing and delivering a service to better meet the needs of children and believe in the importance and value of early help, then this is an exciting opportunity for you to be a part of a new and exciting future for over 5s family support in Islington.
Providing an integrated offer within three locality based teams, each locality has a universal offer of help, a rapid response to families and wrapping around universal services to manage emerging needs as early as possible. This is in addition to case holding interventions which are flexible to support families with multiple complex needs and short term help in venues where families are.
We are looking for someone who shares our passion for evolving the way help is delivered to families, so that more families are helped more quickly, in places where they are through a flexible offer of support that has relationships at its heart.
The post holder will support local families, delivering interventions to ensure children and young people improve educational outcomes, particularly in relation to attainment, attendance and reducing school exclusions. You will work collaboratively with schools to proactively engage with the local community and share information, advice and guidance. You will have tools to successfully support and engage with families directly as part of a multi-agency approach. You will have experience of independently planning and delivering tailored interventions that improve children and young people’s educational outcomes and aspirations for the future.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and acknowledge our responsibility to mitigate against systemic racism and inequalities.
‘Be Islington’ is about setting a clear challenge about what it means to be an Islington employee and sets the standard for every new recruit.
We ask our employees to ‘Be Islington’ – playing their part in working together for a more equal borough and to always be collaborative, be ambitious, be resourceful, and be empowering (‘CARE’).
Closing date: Sunday 3rd September 2023 at 23:59
Provisional interview date: Friday 15th September 2023
If you would like to have an informal discussion about what the role involves please contact: [email protected]
Work alongside the practitioners involved in a child’s life to improve educational outcomes- improving attendance, attainment and reducing school exclusions.
Engage with and build relationships with schools, PRU and AP provides in the locality to promote identification of children who need help.
Promote staff development and share good practice around child and young people centred work and managing complex needs in the community.
Deliver group work and parenting programmes to parents and/or children with a focus on improving educational outcomes.
To participate in a flexible approach to meet the needs of children with poor attendance, able to provide planned pieces of work, one off quick response, adviceand guidance to schools and practitioners across the partnership to improveattendance. This will include facilitation of community drop-ins and community based outreach.
Keep informed of current policy and research developments (e.g. in the fields of adolescent development, mental health, family relationships, peer on peer violence, child sexual exploitation, working with gangs, foster care and multi-agency working), attend and contribute to training, and ongoing staff development.
To participate in data collection and recording into the relevant management information systems in order to capture all necessary inputs, outputs and outcomes for young people, their families and carers.
Using information systems to log, monitor and track pupil attendance, exclusions and attainment progression across a locality in order to inform targeting of resources, planning and delivery of appropriate intervention.
Available when and where the need is. This will likely include home visiting, time spent on school sites, working early mornings to bring children in to school, evenings and weekend work.
Understand the disadvantages faced by residents in the locality and work to reduce inequality.
Work in accordance with local and national child protection and safeguarding procedures and adhere to London Borough of Islington policies and procedures.
Ensure that support is trauma informed and rooted in motivational practice.
