Attendance & Welfare Advisor

Attendance & Welfare Advisor

Tower Hamlets is home to a diverse range of growing; vibrant communities and our schools truly reflect this. If you’re passionate about delivering excellent outcomes for children and families, this is the perfect opportunity to make a positive impact.

We are looking for Attendance & Welfare Advisors to join us to help us continue the successes in improving school attendance, ensuring that every day matters and every minute counts.

If you’re highly skilled and able to work at pace, multi-task and manage working with a range of schools and parents, this is an excellent opportunity to make your mark.

Roles and Requirements

This is an exciting time to join a highly motivated team. We are looking to recruit Attendance & Welfare Advisors to join our team working with schools and their families, to help play a central role in achieving positive outcomes for children and young people in Tower Hamlets by improving school attendance.

We’re looking for someone who has experience of working with schools and families, understands the implication of poor school attendance. What matters too is that you’re resilient, solution focused, and you have exceptional communication skills.

Working as part of the Behaviour & Attendance Support Team, you will work to safeguard and support the wellbeing of children and young people in Tower Hamlets with a focus on Early Help and Early Intervention.

You will contribute to the raising of achievement by improving attendance at school, working with other officers in the directorate to provide co-ordinated support to schools and to disseminate good practice.

You will provide a specialised professional service to assist the LA in meeting its statutory obligations with regard to school attendance and the welfare of pupils.

You will monitor school attendance levels, to assist and participate in the development and review of whole school attendance policies and evaluate their operation  and effectiveness.

As part of this important role, you will have regular written and verbal communication with parents, schools (including Headteachers), other internal Tower Hamlets teams as well as other London local authorities.

You must have good time and record keeping skills, and the capacity to adapt to new and challenging environments. IT skills in Microsoft Word, Excel spreadsheets and email are essential.

You should also be a lively and engaged team player, willing to get stuck in and, above all, love working with children and young people.

You will need a thorough knowledge of the education system and understanding of the importance of Early Help and Early Intervention to the education and wellbeing of children and of the importance of regular attendance to achievement. You will also have a substantial knowledge and understanding of the statutory duties and responsibilities related to school attendance and child and family wellbeing as contained in relevant legislation and guidance.

Tower Hamlets Councils are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Additional Information

You will be based within allocated schools and may work across different sites over the course of the working week.

Application Details

This post is open to the following types of applicants: Redeployees/ Internal/External

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Closing date: 13^th December 2024

Shortlisting: week commencing 18^th December 2024

Assessment and interview date: provisionally 7^th – 8^th January 2025

Would you like an informal, confidential telephone conversation about this role?

Please contact Kabir Ahmed, Team Manager, Behaviour & Attendance Support Service at Kabir.Ahmed@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Additional Details

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. 

We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means applicants who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the post are guaranteed an interview. Care experience has also been adopted by the Council as an additional protected characteristic.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.