School Attendance Support Officer (Refugee & Asylum Seekers)

Salary

£38,364 - £40,833 per annum.

Package

12 months ,Fixed-Term / Secondment. Full-Time, 36 hours per week.

Job category/type

Education & Schools

Date posted

26/04/2024

Job reference

R0006457

About us at Hounslow We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be. We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before. About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. Its about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer. We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.Our Benefits If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here. About The Role This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our School Attendance Support Service (SASS) Team as a School Attendance Support Officer. The successful candidate will join a multi-disciplinary team working with schools, young people, families and other agencies to identify barriers to attendance and causes of school absence. We are looking for someone interested in joining on a fixed-term basis (for 12 months) to work with refugee and asylum seeker families. The Team is responsible for promoting equality of opportunity for all children to enable access to appropriate educational entitlement. About The Team You’ll Be Working In The key purpose of the School Attendance Support Service (SASS) Team relates directly to our statutory responsibilities in line with The Education Act 1996 related to children not attending school. This sits firmly with our duty to ensure that children in our borough exceed their full potential. This is a busy, important, and challenging role that would suit someone keen to make a direct difference working with a diverse range of stakeholders – principally young people, their parents and carers, schools, and local authority support services. You will work with the School Attendance Support Service Team Leader and alongside our Access to Education team, Elective Home Education, Refugee and Asylum Seekers services, and School Admissions teams. About You If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

• Being a clear communicator, proactive problem solver and collaborative worker with a clear focus on the importance of children being able to access education.

• Sound knowledge of the legislative framework within which the School Attendance Support Service and other Local Authority functions in relation to school attendance, and our work supporting refugees and asylum seekers.

• Detailed knowledge of Child Protection issues in relation to attendance and experience of ensuring safeguarding and positive outcomes for young people.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate with a range of individuals including young people, parents and professionals in health, social work, police and third sector organisations.

• Ability to promote inter-agency co-operation to ensure a holistic approach to pupil out of school issues, engaging a wide range of professionals in complex casework working with both children and adults as required, to support the team around the child/family process.

• Enhanced DBS check is required.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile. Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact: Email: Graeme.Baker@hounslow.gov.uk Telephone:020 8583 2772 Interviews for this job will be held on 23rd and 24th May 2024. (Please seek permission from your line manager if you wish to apply for this role as secondment.)