Warwickshire Attendance Service: Audit and Compliance Officer We are pleased to announce that an opportunity has arisen for the recruitment of an Audit and Compliance Officer. Salary Scale: H Either term time only 34 hours at 40 weeks pro rata: (TT only plus 1) (£24,368 – £26,471 per annum) OR 52 weeks a year 30 hours a week pro rata: (£24,372 – £26,476 per annum) Reporting to the Team Manager – Audit and Compliance, Attendance Service, you will be supporting an established team delivering attendance services to improve outcomes for children and young people. Warwickshire Attendance Service also undertakes an enforcement and prosecution role in relation to school attendance on behalf of the local authority. About the Role You will be part of the team administering the Leave of Absence process (LoA), School Attendance Orders (SAO), undertaking attendance audits, screening statutory returns from schools and screening requests for Targeted Attendance Support and providing advice to ensure education providers, parents/carers and other agencies are aware of their statutory responsibilities in relation to school attendance. You will be required to keep electronic case records and reports ensuring they are of a high quality, up to date and accurate. Appropriate referrals for leave of absence will require you to use escalation and enforcement procedures in line with The Non-School Attendance and Penalty Notices Code of Conduct and The Code for Crown Prosecutors. Ideally, we are seeking someone with experience of working in schools and understand school attendance processes including the use of the SIMs system (or equivalent MIS) for the extraction and analysis of quantitative attendance data. Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Word and Excel are a must. You will be supporting schools by offering advice and guidance in relation to whole school attendance strategies in line with ‘Working Together to Improve School Attendance”. The role may include reviewing staged approaches to improved attendance, attendance coding, policy, systems, and processes reviews. Working as part of a team there will be training, and support provided to you to ensure that the customer receives the best quality delivery. As a team we have embraced WCC agile working arrangements however, we have two area bases – North (Bedworth) and South (Warwick). We deliver a statutory function to schools across Warwickshire as well as those out of the county, therefore the successful applicant must be able to travel when appropriate. For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification. Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels?valued, included, safe, supported,?and?welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them? At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best. Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund' The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform. Click here to view the benefits at Warwickshire County Council. Additional Information Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public. If you would like to discuss the role informally, please contact: Joanne Hort (Team Manager– Audit and Compliance – Warwickshire Attendance Service) Email: waswarwickshire.gov.uk /Tel: 01926 413777 Closing date: Midnight 27th February Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayrollwarwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements. Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See? more