Targeting Support Meeting Manager
Targeting Support Meeting Manager
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Job Description
We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Southwark to assist with the appointment of a Targeting Support Meeting Manager on a 3month contract highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.
Rate of Pay: 25.72 33.76 per Hour
Responsibilities:
- Take a lead role in the delivery of the local authority education statutory duties to coordinate regular targeting support meetings.
- Ensure school attendance leads from all schools and the local authority identify discuss and agree joint targeted action plans for pupils who are severely absent or those at risk of becoming so or persistently absent where barriers to attendance require a multiagency response to overcome.
- Support a dialogue of overall attendance trends and identification of emerging patterns and help schools focus efforts to promote improvement.
- Ensure delivery of child focused practice and in accordance with the councils equality policies and Southwark Stands Together pledges including a commitment to developing a better understanding of the drivers for disproportionality in educational outcomes and taking
positive action to tackle these. - In collaboration with the Virtual School the wider frontline local authority workforce and partners monitor and seek to improve the attendance of our most vulnerable children particularly children with a social worker and children with additional needs.
Qualifications:
- Must hold a professional qualification in Social Work or a related profession working with children and/ young people and families
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of the underlying causes of poor school attendance and exclusion including child development parenting capacity environmental factors risk and protective factors and evidencebased approaches to improving attendance and promoting inclusion.
- Experience of managing practice to deliver highquality attendance and inclusion work driving high quality assessment and planning with vulnerable families quality assuring voluntary and statutory interventions under relevant legislation and guidance.
Please note:
- You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
- You should have right to work in U.K
Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary though opening assignments can be and often are extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
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Employment Type
Full Time
