Would you like to join a small, exciting and dynamic team within Enfield’s Virtual School based within Enfield’s Children and Family Service?
You will be supporting with the extended duties of the Virtual School to work Social Workers, schools, and any other associated practitioners to promote the education of children with a social worker, previously looked after children and children in Kinship care. You will be providing high quality and comprehensive administrative support 3 days a week (working Tuesday, Wednesday and the third day can be flexible) to support and improve the pastoral and academic outcomes of children with a social worker. You will set up, maintain and review processes and systems to ensure effective day to day operation of the service in accordance with relevant legislative and statutory requirements in addition to collecting, co-ordinating, analysing and interpreting information to meet all local, national and statutory information requirements and data returns for the service. You will be reporting to the Assistant Head for
Vulnerable Children who reports to the Head Teacher of the Virtual School.
As the ideal candidate you will have experience of working in education, schools, childrens' services, and or CAMHs (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service) and an understanding of how educational outcomes for children are measured (attendance, suspensions, attainment). You will have an eye for detail and excellent administrative and IT skills (particularly Microsoft Excel) which will assist you with preparing and analysing data for reporting and working with systems such as Welfare Call and Study Bugs. You will be a confident communicator and have experience of working in a multi-disciplinary environment which will assist you with working with a variety of different organisations including other Local Authorities to support Enfield’s vulnerable children. Your excellent organisational and interpersonal skills will assist you with coordinating the Virtual Schools extensive training programme
and with working with digital services to ensure that Virtual Schools website is accurate and maintained. Overall, you will be committed to improving the educational outcomes of the children with a social worker.
The post is an initial 12 month contract with the possibility of renewal.
Please not the position is not a qualified Social Work role and with this being a part time, the salary quoted is for full time per annum and therefore this will be pro rated.
Contact Details -
If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Malaika Williams on 020 8132 1657 for an informal discussion.
If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Andy Kingsbury, Recruitment & Onboarding Advisor on 0208 078 5976 or Email
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Why it's great to work for Enfield Council:
- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
- A blend of remote and office based working for most roles.
- Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
- Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
- Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
- 1 month paid sabbatical for Children’s Social Workers
We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working, click here to find out more.
If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.
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