Parents' School Preference Adviser

2 weeks ago

Huntingdon, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire County Council Full time

About the role
**For many parents choosing a school for their child is an unknown procedure and one that causes them considerable anxiety. If they do not get the place they would like appealing the authority's decision is another cause of anxiety and stress. The Parents' School Preference Advisers role is to to help parents navigate the admissions process and if necessary support them with appealing against the authority's decision.**

**This post is full time term time plus two weeks during the schools summer break**

What will you be doing?
You will be providing an independent and impartial, practical support and advice service to those parents likely to need additional help at any stage of the admissions process. The process begins with choosing a school or schools and in rare cases supporting them with appealing for a place at the school or setting they would like their child to attend.

About you
You will need to be an excellent communicator and able to support service users who may be very emotional and enable them to not only understand the admissions process but enable them to decide actions they need to take and if necessary support them to do so.

You will need to be sensitive to cultural and language issues and able to work independently and as a member of a team.

If you can remain calm in stressful situations and want to empower parents to navigate through the admissions process we would like to hear from you.

About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme

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