Emotionally Based School Avoidance Practitioner

3 weeks ago

Tamworth, United Kingdom Staffordshire County Council Full time

Job Introduction
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for four dynamic and high performing individuals to work in the new role of Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA) Practitioner.

Following Staffordshire’s EBSA model, you will work closely with schools, families, education welfare officers, educational psychologists and other agencies to support reintegration into school for individual children, who are unable to attend school for medical or mental health reasons.

This position will cover the districts of East Staffordshire and Tamworth.

The positions are full time but please get in touch if you would like to discuss different working hours such as part time, term time or reduced hours.

**Duration**:This is a 12-month fixed term contract.

Main Responsibilities
You'll need to:

- Be passionate about education and have a desire to work with children who are unable to attend school for medical or mental health reasons.
- Work with Educational Psychology and Education Welfare staff to ensure schools, parents and professionals are adhering to the EBSA model of working and identify any barriers or areas of development.
- Promote good home school communication and ensure that the child maintains contact with their school and peers while not in school and support with planning for reintegration back into school.
- Support schools in undertaking EBSA assessments and interventions to embed it as good practice within our schools.

Every day you will be meeting with families, schools and professionals. Whilst most meetings are on-line, you will regularly attend meetings in school or undertake home visits.

You will be part of a larger team focussed on supporting school attendance and inclusion for children in Staffordshire’s schools. You will manage a group of individual children and will benefit from professional and personal development through personal supervision and group supervision.

You will have:

- Great personal skills to be able to build strong relationships between families, schools, health professionals and social care professionals to raise awareness of strategies and find opportunities for them to work together to support the children
- The ability to work well on your own as well as part of a team.
- Resilience and confidence in contributing to parenting assessments, supporting with mediation, crisis prevention and conflict resolution
- To have effective IT and literacy skills, to support the completion of accurate documentation, reports and records relating to work undertaken with children, young people, and their families.

**Want to know more or have a chat about the role?**

**Interviews**: we plan to hold these on 25 August 2023

About Staffordshire County Council
**We are no ordinary county council**:
**Our Values**:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

**Our benefits**:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.

**Our recruitment process**:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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