Education Welfare Officer

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Education Wellbeing Officer
Leith Primary School

Salary: £36,312 - £42,717
Hours: 36 per week / 52 weeks

The Education Wellbeing Service aim to work directly with schools and partner services as part of locality teams, to provide consultation and advice to schools, as well as targeted family support to promote wellbeing and maximise school attendance, leading on the Council's maximising attendance policy and procedures and using strategic learning community approaches to support children and families.

The Educational Wellbeing Officer will be required to develop and maintain effective networks with a diverse range of partners, including education, health, housing, police and third sector groups, to assist and support children and families to access, sustain and maintain appropriate levels of attendance and engagement at school.

The role of the Education Wellbeing Officer is to assess, identify and reduce the barriers that may prevent children from taking full advantage of their educational opportunities and to assist in the development of relationships and understanding between families and schools, in conjunction with social work, NHS colleagues and partner agencies.

The wellbeing of children and young people are at the centre of the work delivered by the service therefore good communication between all agencies is core to their work. The Educational Wellbeing Officer will participate in and support the delivery of the aims and objectives of GIRFEC, advising and supporting on attendance related elements of the Child's Plan and being part of the team around the family.

Previous experience of working with children & families is essential as is the ability to work on your own initiative. Experience of report writing is also essential. Applicants should hold a recognised qualification in a relevant discipline, e.g. Social Work/Housing/Health/Community Education, which is likely to be at degree level or equivalent. Experience in a previous post and working with the public is desirable.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Requirements

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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