Elective Home Education Officer Walsall, England
Job description
Elective Home Education Officer - Ref CH11522
Salary G8: £32,909 to £37,261 per annum
This is a permanent, full time and all year role.
Walsall Council are recruiting for an Elective Home Education Officer who will be responsible for visiting families who are educating their children at home.
The role will involve monitoring the quality of the educational provision at home to ensure it is line with statutory guidance and referring into services if required. We are looking to recruit a suitably qualified officer who has a good overall knowledge of age-related academic developments and has previous teaching experience.
The successful applicant will monitor and scrutinise all EHE referral to ensure that children's needs are identified and that appropriate educational provision continues in a timely and effective manner. This will include joint working with Children's Services colleagues to prevent children missing education.
The successful applicant will also need to demonstrate that they are highly organised and self-motivated. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential.
For an informal conversation please contact Manni Uppal, Specialist Officer for Elective Home Education [email protected] or Rob Thomas, Head of Access, [email protected]
Closing date for applications: Monday 6th March 2023.
This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The post holder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.
Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children and young people entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people.
Note: Applicants appointed to posts that require an enhanced DBS clearance must declare any periods of time that they have lived, studied or worked abroad and be prepared to provide an Overseas Criminal Records Certificate (OCRC) or a Statement of Good Conduct (SOGC) relating to anytime they were overseas.
