Education, Skills & Early Years Inclusion Service School Attendance Officer Ref: 000407 Contract Type: Fixed Term for 2 years Salary: £30,559 - -£33,366 p.a. Hours: 36.66 per week Based: Spindles Shopping Centre, West Street, Oldham Closing date: Thursday, 12th December 2024 Shortlisting & Interview Dates- TBC Role overview To ensure that all children of compulsory school age are admitted to school and attend regularly or receive education otherwise. To contribute to raising achievement by improving school attendance. To provide specialist support to assist the Local Authority meeting its statutory obligations and targets in relation to school attendance using legal sanctions if necessary. Key responsibilities To ensure that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities and to act on behalf of the Local Authority in carrying out the provisions of relevant legislation. To make unsupervised contact with families in their own homes and elsewhere to assess the reasons impacting on the attendance of individual pupils, facilitating their return or access to regular full-time education provision. To establish the reasons for non-attendance, make assessments and agree a plan for facilitating a return to school using appropriate strategies with specified timescales. To support in the ascertaining the whereabouts of children referred to the team, engaging hard to reach families with the education admission process and where required, initiating legal interventions. Key Requirements Recent and relevant experience of direct work with children, young people, parents and families preferably within an educational context. To acquire and maintain a working knowledge of the statutory framework relating to school attendance, child protection and special educational needs and disabilities in order to be able to offer informed advice to parents, head teachers, governors and others. To support School Attendance Officers and senior managers in advising schools on all matters relating to school attendance and where necessary take a lead role in developing work processes to improve school attendance. To be able to manage and prioritise personal workload in line with service requirements and Oldham standards preparing for supervision by the line manager and to participate in training as identified for personal and service development. Oldham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 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