Attendance Mentor

**Are you a highly motivated individual with the passion and drive for improving school attendance for persistently absent pupils? We are currently seeking motivated individuals to join our team on a Part-Time Permanent basis.**

**Working pattern**

**Location of the post**

**Essential requirements**
- Experience of using a social work / counselling / solution focussed approach to working with parents and children
- Experience of working in the education system and in multi-agency settings
- Knowledge of:

- school systems
- pastoral systems
- approaches to working with parents of disaffected students
- positive approaches to empowering and enabling students and parents/carers to help themselves
- Knowledge of the legislative framework that underpins the work of supporting families and schools, including attendance and behaviour
- Ability to undertake assessments and write reports to a high standard

**Some of the Key Responsibilities include**:

- To support the identification, engagement and mentor support for pupils who are eligible for support within the project
- To hold a case load of pupils to engage in mentoring support
- To work in partnership with academies to promote positive education for pupils who are being supported by the project
- To work co-operatively with children's services, health agencies and other community based services, to provide the most effective service for children young people and families.

**More about the Service**

Coop Academies are working in partnership with Barnardo's to deliver **targeted, responsive, one-to-one support for persistently and severely absent pupils**.

This will **initially be a one-year project (12 months).**

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: £27,300.00-£36,029.00 per year

Expected hours: 18.5 per week

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Company pension
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Sick pay

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 18070