Children with a Social Worker Education Officer
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Reference Number: PEO-001795
Salary: Scale 6 £34,416 - £36,522
Advert closing date: 21/04/2025
Department: People
Location: Thomas Hardy House
Contract type: Fixed Term
Division: Children and Families Services
Hours Per Week: 21.6 - Tuesday, Wednesday flexible on third day
Contract End Date: One year
Interview Date: Week commencing 5th May 2025
Job Description
Would you like to join a small, exciting and dynamic team within Enfield’s Virtual School based within Enfield’s Children and Family Service? You will be supporting with the extended duties of the Virtual School to work with Social Workers, schools, and any other associated practitioners to promote the education of children with a social worker, previously looked after children and children in Kinship care. You will be providing high quality and comprehensive administrative support 3 days a week (working Tuesday, Wednesday and the third day can be flexible) to support and improve the pastoral and academic outcomes of children with a social worker. You will set up, maintain and review processes and systems to ensure effective day to day operation of the service in accordance with relevant legislative and statutory requirements in addition to collecting, co-ordinating, analysing and interpreting information to meet all local, national and statutory information requirements and data returns for the service. You will be reporting to the Assistant Head for Vulnerable Children who reports to the Head Teacher of the Virtual School.
As the ideal candidate you will have experience of working in education, schools, children’s services, and or CAMHs (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service) and an understanding of how educational outcomes for children are measured (attendance, suspensions, attainment). You will have an eye for detail and excellent administrative and IT skills (particularly Microsoft Excel) which will assist you with preparing and analysing data for reporting and working with systems such as Welfare Call and Study Bugs. You will be a confident communicator and have experience of working in a multi-disciplinary environment which will assist you with working with a variety of different organisations including other Local Authorities to support Enfield’s vulnerable children. Your excellent organisational and interpersonal skills will assist you with coordinating the Virtual Schools extensive training programme and with working with digital services to ensure that Virtual Schools website is accurate and maintained. Overall, you will be committed to improving the educational outcomes of the children with a social worker.
The post is an initial 12 month contract with the possibility of renewal.
Please note the position is not a qualified Social Work role and the salary quoted is for full time per annum, therefore, with this being a part time role, the pay will be pro-rated.
Contact Details
If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Malaika Williams on 020 8132 1657 for an informal discussion.
If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Andy Kingsbury, Recruitment & Onboarding Advisor on 0208 078 5976 or andy.kingsbury@enfield.gov.uk.
Commitment to Safeguarding
Enfield’s Social Care Centre of Excellence confirms our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to be the best and deliver high quality social work to our most vulnerable children and young people. This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
Why it's great to work for Enfield Council
* An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
* Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
* A blend of remote and office based working for most roles.
* Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
* Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
* Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
* Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
* 1 month paid sabbatical for Children’s Social Workers.
If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.
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