What is the job role?
The Attendance and Children Missing Education Team is seeking to recruit a suitably experienced officer to support the local authority to fulfil its statutory duties, responsibilities and powers for school attendance by ensuring that legal processes are followed for court and enforcement proceedings.
This is a fixed-term role for 18 months.
All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and as such, appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Who are we looking for?
The successful candidate will have experience of advising schools, parents, stakeholders and partners regarding all issues that impact on children and young people’s ability and opportunities to access education and will additionally have knowledge of:
1. the legal framework related to school attendance
2. legislation relating to Education and Children Missing Education
3. issues which may cause poor school attendance
4. intervention programmes to remove barriers to learning
5. safeguarding procedures
The Local Authority Attendance Officer will have responsibility for delivering the DfE statutory duty around school attendance and developing initiatives and interventions with children, young people and parents/carers in order to improve attendance. They will also advise, evaluate and challenge schools on the effectiveness of schools’ procedures for the monitoring of overall and persistent absence and producing court files for presentation in the Magistrates Court for cases of non-attendance.
If you would like further information regarding this post, please contact: viv.blinco
For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'
Interview date: Thursday 9th July
About Coventry
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We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.
At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.
To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.