Education Inclusion Team Manager for Targeting Support Meetings

About The Role:

As Education Inclusion Team Manager for Targeting Support Meetings you will have lead responsibility for the delivery of our local authority duties as set out in the Working Together To Improve School Attendance statutory guidance to coordinate effective targeting support meetings. You will hold regular conversations with schools, and other partners using attendance data to identify children and young people at risk of poor attendance and agree targeted actions and access to services for those pupils. Alongside colleagues you will promote the principle that keeping children in education is everyone's business and ensure the importance of good attendance is understood by all frontline staff and associated services, provide advice and guidance and a range of briefings focusing on good attendance practice.

About you:

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic frontline manager who is social work qualified or holds a related professional qualification. An individual who has experience of professional leadership within multi-agency services and who can demonstrate participation in effective operational partnerships with schools. We are looking for a candidate who has a strong working knowledge of education legislation, and statutory guidance and an understanding of evidenced based approaches to improving attendance and promoting inclusion.

For detailed qualifications and requirements, please review the job description and person specification located at the bottom of the advert.

Benefits and more information:

In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.

Recruitment Timeline:

• Advert close date: 11:59pm on Sunday 1st December 2024
• Shortlisting date/s: week commencing 2nd December 2024
• Interview date/s: week commencing 9th December 2024

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

About The Service:

As a local authority, we believe school attendance is everyone's business. The Family Early Help (FEH) are a service within Children's Services, which, as well as providing other help and support, is responsible for delivering the council's statutory duties in relation to school attendance and exclusion/inclusion support. This means providing advice, support and interventions when significant concerns about attendance arise.

Oversight and delivery of the council's duties are led by the Education Inclusion Team (EIT) embedded within FEH. EIT work with families, schools and practitioners to implement guidance around legislation with the aim of improving children and young people's attendance and access to education, and to reduce the risk of exclusion. The specific duties outlined in the updated Working Together To Improve School Attendance guidance, and the rise in children and young people not attending school, and experiencing different forms of exclusion, requires us to review resources and design a sustainable response if we are to meet these requirements as a LA.

Contact Information:

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Kym Winup via email at

Additional Information:

• This is a full time, 36 hours per week position.
• Fixed term contract until 30th September 2025 to be reviewed dependent on future funding opportunities
• Open as a secondment opportunity
• This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) DBS check at Enhanced level.