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Education Welfare Service Team Lead (12 months FTC)

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The Rowans Children's Centre (Hybrid)

Temporary, Full time, Flexible hours

Enhanced DBS check required

£39,875 - £45,117 FTE (inclusive of £689 London Weighting)

37 hours


Step into a role where you make a real difference, right from the start. As part of our Early Help service, you’ll take on responsibility from day one, backed by all the support you need to harness your skills and experience. You'll be at the heart of ensuring families and young people receive the highest quality care, helping them reach their full potential, have their voices heard, and stay safe. Together, we can shape brighter futures for children and families.

You will ensure that consistent, high-quality advice and support regarding the education welfare of children and their families is available to Early Help colleagues, Children’s Social Care and other BFC colleagues. You will also consistently promote the benefits of good attendance and set high expectations for schools to ensure that children and young people, particularly the most vulnerable, reach their full potential.

As a team member you will contribute to our ‘can do’ approach by being flexible and responsive to the unique needs of each family, child and young person you are supporting. You will need to combine the ability to work both independently and collaboratively, supporting team colleagues and representing the service where this is required.

Our benefits include ...

  • An inclusive and social working environment with a variety of staff networks including sports and social clubs
  • Opportunities for flexible and agile working, to support our employees’ work-life balance.
  • Generous annual leave of 28 days increasing to 33 days after 3 years’ service (pro rata for part time)
  • Annual leave purchase policy.
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and fostering leave
  • Regular opportunities for development with internal and external training courses
  • A great office location next to travel links and the regenerated town centre
  • Internal sports and social club opportunities
  • Discounted leisure centre and gym membership
  • Supermarket discount
  • An interest free loan for a rail season ticket

Key responsibilities ...

  1. To effectively lead an agreed area, associated staff, and their performance under the direction of the Specialist Programme Manager
  2. To collate, analyse and provide relevant data for the head of service, department management team and director related to school attendance
  3. To provide information and guidance to ensure that all Bracknell Forest schools are confident and competent regarding their duties for school attendance and that they have robust policies and procedures in place for managing attendance matters
  4. Provide regular training to schools, school governors, local authority staff and partners and on the statutory duties regarding school attendance
  5. To hold a caseload of schools

Interview date...

Interviews to be held week commencing 14th October 2024.

Interviews will be conducted in person, providing candidates with the chance to personally meet the team and experience our work environment. Additionally, this approach allows the recruiting manager and the team to establish connections with potential team members.

We will be reviewing applications regularly and reserve the right to close the advert early if suitable candidates are identified. To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible.

Any successful internal candidate will be offered the position as a secondment and, in line with Section 8.1 of the Secondment Policy, must consult with their manager before applying. 

Please note AI is prohibited during the interview process, any candidate using AI will be withdrawn from consideration.

Want to ask us a question? 

For an informal discussion or to ask any questions about this role. Please contact:  

Name: Noosha Churchill 

Job Title:  Specialist Programme Manager  

Email: Noosha.churchill@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

At Bracknell Forest we champion equality, diversity and inclusion. At Bracknell Forest Council, we are always learning, ambition and inclusive. Please see our candidate pack for more details.

Bracknell Forest Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. We expect everyone employed with us to share this commitment. All successful candidates for this role will be subject to a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) check as part of our pre-employment checks process.

We can only accept applications from candidates currently residing in the UK.

Candidates currently residing in the UK who require sponsorship to work are encouraged to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) based on the relevant criteria. Please be aware that sponsorship availability varies and is subject to eligibility requirements and budget limitations. As a result, we cannot guarantee sponsorship for all roles and will evaluate sponsorship requests on a case-by-case basis.

No agencies please. 


Closing date: Wed 09/10/2024 at 09:00
Job reference: People/24/293356
Vacancy downloads:

Education_Welfare_Service_Team_Leader_Team_Lead_-_JD_PS_-_Aug_24.pdf

Candidate_Pack_-_People_Directorate_-_Sept_24.pdf

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