Education Welfare Officer – Grade SO2 (pro-rata)
Term time: 36 hours per week.
* Reference Number: PEO-002378
* Salary: SO2 £40,182 - £42,060
* Advert closing date: 16/12/2025
* Department: People
* Location: Civic Centre Site
* Contract type: Permanent
* Division: Education Welfare Team
* Contract End Date: N/A
* Interview Date: WC 05/01/2026
Responsibilities
As an Education Welfare Officer, you will provide practical guidance to schools on attendance policy and the law, as well as advice and support to children and their parents/carers on promoting good attendance and punctuality. Where appropriate, you will make recommendations to other agencies to enable them to provide vulnerable families with a holistic package of support.
You will work independently, manage a demanding workload, prioritise tasks, and adopt a flexible approach to changing and competing challenges. Additionally, you will promote equality of opportunity for all children, enabling access to appropriate educational entitlement.
Qualifications
• Experience working as an Education Welfare Officer or in a similar role. • Good understanding of the education system, especially school attendance. • Ability to travel across the borough, carry out home visits, visit schools, and attend meetings. • Experience working in a school attendance role is essential.
Benefits
* Excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
* Up to 32 days annual leave (depending on grade and length of service), eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
* Blend of remote and office-based working for most roles.
* Interest-free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
* Career development and learning experiences through a range of training courses and learning methods.
* Employee Assistance Programme providing advice and counselling services (free and confidential).
* Health and leisure discounts and tax‑free bikes for work.
* 1 month’s paid sabbatical for registered Social Workers working in Children’s Social Care.
Contact
For more information, please contact Sharon Clarke at 020 8132 2713 for an informal discussion.
If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Maria Evangelou at maria.evangelou@enfield.gov.uk.
Legal and Equality Statement
Enfield Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. This authority is committed to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to deliver high‑quality social work to our most vulnerable children and young people. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received.
Applicants who have previously applied for this role within the past six months should note that a second application will not be considered.
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