Education Welfare Officer

2 months ago

Haringey, United Kingdom Harris Federation Full time

**Summary**
Do you have experience working with at-risk students and or overseeing educational welfare? Support our students as Educational Welfare Officer. We are looking for a dedicated and experienced individual to join Harris Primary Academy Philip Lane, overseeing welfare-related duties across our student body.

**About Us**
Harris Primary Academy Philip Lane is an Outstanding primary academy and we have high expectations and aspirations for your children. All our staff aim to give every child an exceptional education providing support, care, enrichment and challenge as they come through our doors. We give them opportunities to enjoy their learning and prepare them for future academic success as well as happy lives. We have a unique creative curriculum, a clear vision, high expectations, strong moral values and a love of learning. Our academy is a multi-cultural, multi-faith family where children learn together. They respect and value each other.

We believe all children are special and we "dig for gold" in every child. This means encouraging children to do their very best, not settling for second-best.

The Academy is located in Tottenham and we are very proud of all of our children and staff. Everyone works hard and behaves well to achieve "exceedingly, abundantly, above all we can think or imagine'

**Main Areas of Responsibility**
In your role, you will:

- Oversee Educational Welfare across the academy
- Manage a caseload of ‘at risk’ students, where attendance falls below 85% and implement strategies to improve attendance. Educational Welfare Officer to ensure that prompt, consistent and rigorous intervention with poor attendance is robust.
- Have responsibility for monitoring the attendance of most vulnerable students at the academy, including Looked after students, those on the child protection register, children identified as being in need either by Academy staff or external agencies.
- Representing the academy at external meetings e.g. Social Services Case Conferences, Child in Need Meetings, LAC Reviews.
- Line Manage the Attendance Officer; managing and monitoring workload, setting targets and developing strategy within the welfare team.
- Liaise with Academy Leadership Group to address any attendance or welfare concerns.
- Assist with the smooth running of the student information centre (SIC), ensuring support for students has a positive impact on raising achievement.
- Communicate effectively with all external agencies including possible alternative providers e.g. special schools, LEA and other external agencies including CAMHs, Social Services, Police etc.
- Ensure effective communication/consultation as appropriate with the parents of students through phone, letter and home visits as relevant, ensuring student contracts are agreed and monitored.
- Liaise with the local authority when cases of poor attendance reach the level of legal intervention. Manage the process of evidence sharing and represent the relevant academy at court were necessary.

**Other Duties**
- Maintaining the confidential records of support for all students referred.
- The preparation of reports and maintaining records relating to student referrals and subsequent counselling or support from academy staff or other agencies.
- To be responsible for own professional development, identifying training needs and requesting courses as appropriate.

**Qualifications & Experience** Qualifications, Knowledge & Training**
- Degree, or equivalent
- Knowledge of the Academy behaviour for learning policy
- Knowledge of the range of barriers to learning that students face
- Training in child protection and safeguarding procedures
- Basic knowledge of first aid; e.g. emergency first aid course

**Experience**
- 3 years’ experience of working in an inner city school or educational establishment in a pastoral capacity
- Experience of dealing successfully with a range of issues influencing poor attendance
- Experience of working with staff to ensure excellent standards of attendance and punctuality are maintained
- Experience of working with families
- Experience of working with challenging students and parents, and finding ways in which we can meet their needs more successfully

**Personal Skills & Qualities**
- Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice
- Understanding of principles of student development and learning processes
- Ability to plan effective actions for pupils at risk of underachieving
- Effective use of ICT
- Understanding of a range of welfare issues that may be affecting students and their families.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills to be able to relate well to a wide range of people
- Work constructively as part of a team whilst being able to demonstrate initiative.

**Next Steps**

**Professional Development & Benefits**
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