Project Officer

Elective Home Education Service

We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled individual to join the Elective Home Education (EHE) Service to support our commitment to safeguarding and general wellbeing. The successful candidate will work within the EHE Service providing efficient and accurate administrative and casework support.

This is a hybrid full-time post with a mix of working from the office and home. This post is being offered as a temporary 1 year contract.

Specific duties will include:

• Operating as a link between assessment teams and intervention teams, triaging referral information and updating pupil records.
• Operating as a point of contact for parents, professionals and other agencies.
• Ensuring pupils are entered into and moved along the various stages of the assessment and intervention processes.
• Providing information to parents, professionals and other agencies.
• Developing and updating Service information and parental communications.
• Monitoring specific cohorts and adding to Officers caseloads in line with Service frameworks and safeguarding information.
• Data oversight and reporting.
• Maintaining accurate, timely and up to information on management systems in line with data protection.
• Assisting the development of data recording to support reporting and case working.
• Supporting team members to complete key Service priorities.
• Developing and maintaining a good understanding of internal EHE frameworks and policies, alongside DFE guidance for EHE. Developing a solid working understanding of other relevant agencies such as SENDSARS, CME and admissions.

You must have GCSE’s in Maths and English (grade 9-4) or equivalent and strong administrative experience.

Please refer to the specific duties listed in the job advert, alongside the job description, when completing your application.

For further information, please contact Venetta.Buchanan@sheffield.gov.uk

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Read about the new job evaluation process to be introduced at Sheffield City Council.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.