Overview
Are you passionate about supporting children and young people to achieve their full potential? Two exciting opportunities have arisen within the Elective Home Education (EHE) Team. One position for an EHE Officer to work with Y11 and EHCP students and their families countywide. The other covering East Staffordshire EHE families from Early years to Y11. We have two fixed term contracts available:
* one to cover a secondment until 31/12/2026 (ideally with immediate start due to short term nature).
* one to cover maternity leave for 12 months.
Our EHE Team, specialises in working with parents who chose to home educate their children and provides the following services:
* Support to parents in providing suitable education for their children.
* A statutory function of the local authority in identifying children without a suitable education.
* Information, advice and guidance to other agencies on EHE.
Responsibilities
Main Responsibility. You will hold responsibility for a number of children and will:
* ensure parents are providing a suitable education for their children.
* offer support, information, advice and guidance to families and professionals.
* complete home visits and review educational reports.
* develop, facilitate and organise family and professionals' meetings, events and groups to ensure home education is delivered in line with statutory services and is both efficient and effective.
* ensure EHE students are safeguarded inline with current legislation and guidance.
* liaise with SEND and Careers and Participation team colleagues.
Qualifications
* at least NVQ 3 or equivalent in respect of working with children and their families
* experience of enabling parents and children to take full advantage of the educational opportunities available
* experience of working with parents and children in an education setting
* knowledge and experience of child development
* knowledge and experience of child safeguarding processes and procedures
We're happy to talk flexible working.
Values and Culture
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.
Benefits
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 our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire.
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