Nottingham City Council
Job title:
Attendance Team Caseworker
Company
Nottingham City Council
Job description
Job Description:Organisation: Leicestershire County CouncilWork Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicestershire LE3 8RAWorker Category: Hybrid WorkerSalary: £34,350 – £37,950 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)Working Hours: 37 hours per weekContract Type: PermanentClosing Date: 30th March 2025Interview Date(s): 10th & 11th April 2025About the RoleThe Attendance Team caseworker works with schools, parents/carers and other agencies to ensure every child of compulsory school age receives an education appropriate to their age ability, aptitude and any special needs they may have. They meet with schools throughout the county in person or virtually to conduct Targeted Support Meetings in relation to school attendance. They also identify, discuss and agree joint targeted actions in the meetings with schools for pupils who are persistently or severely absent and those at risk of becoming so to improve their attendance. The caseworker will also be involved with the legal intervention process should prosecution of a parent become necessary. This will include initiating proceedings, monitoring and progressing the prosecution, preparing witness statements and attending the magistrates court to present the prosecution on behalf of the Local Authority.For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our .About YouTo apply for this post, you must:
- Knowledge and understanding of the education system in relation to school attendance including the Education act 1996, Leicestershire County Council’s Attendance Team Code of Conduct and Protocol and the current DfE guidance Working Together to Improve School Attendance.
- Ability to analyse, interpret and apply a degree of evaluative judgement with regard to a child and family’s circumstances, when determining whether a case should be prepared for prosecution, or referred to a support agency or other services or whether it continues to be monitored
- Experience and understanding of multi-agency working in or with schools, family help and social care
- Experience of working within a legal framework i.e. advising senior school management on legislation affecting school attendance
- Experience of working with families experiencing challenges.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people, using skills of diplomacy, assertiveness, conflict resolution, negotiation and persuasion as well as the ability to present information to a wider audience including school staff, other LA services and at the magistrate’s court.
- Ability to track, analyse and interpret local attendance data to devise a strategic approach to attendance that prioritises pupils, pupil cohorts and schools on which to provide support and focus its efforts on to unblock are wide barriers to attendance and devise solutions to address any issues arising from the data gathered with schools at Targeted Support meetings.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.Interested in Flexible Working?We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:Lynne Fantham – Cohesion and Compliance ManagerTelephone: 0116 3050203Email: [email protected]How to ApplyLeicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the section on our career site.We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: .By applying for this post, you agree to our .About Us:About Leicestershire County CouncilLeicestershire County Council is a and organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the . We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.For further information on what it’s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:
Expected salary
£34350 – 37950 per year
Location
Leicestershire
Job date
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:38:47 GMT
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