Education Welfare Officer

Like all of us here at Barnsley, you will care about children, young people and their education. So, you’ll relish this opportunity to play a part in ensuring pupils are engaged in their education to achieve their full potential. At a time of exciting change, you will work with families, partner agencies, schools and academies to improve engagement in education across the borough and meet the priorities of our Every Child in School Everyday Plan to improve attendance, reduce suspensions and exclusions.

Shape a better future with us

Join us on our journey to a brighter future. By working together, with each other and with our communities, we can take pride in improving lives. Let’s make a better Barnsley for everyone.

Your role in our journey

As an Education Welfare Officer, you will develop positive working relationships with schools and academies to identify pupils at risk of becoming severely and persistently absent.

You will also work alongside schools to improve attendance, inclusion and access to education. Through partnership working with parents and pupils, you will identify need and negotiate pathways to regular school attendance, with a focus on our most vulnerable groups. To ensure all pupils engage in education to achieve the best possible outcomes.

What you’ll need

To join us, you’ll need 4 GCSEs at grades A-C, or an equivalent qualification in a relevant field, with a willingness to work towards an NVQ level 4. You will also have experience of working in home school liaison to negotiate positive outcomes for pupils; you’ll bring to the role, knowledge, experience and skills required to complete assessments in line with Barnsley’s assessment and threshold criteria. Your good communication skills and proven ability to keep up to date records will support you in providing and presenting evidence-based reports. You will be flexible and resilient in your approach and can work under pressure.

A lot to look forward to

Here at Barnsley, we live and work by four important values: honesty, teamwork, excellent service, and taking pride in what we do. As part of our team, you can be sure we’ll do all we can to support you in being truly excellent. You see, we prioritise learning and enabling you to achieve your potential. So we’ve created a development process that lets you grow in the way that suits you - whether that’s training to be a leader or learning flexibly online.

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To achieve your ambitions while shaping a bright future for our communities, apply now