Triumph Consultants Limited:

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• Vacancy Title: Assistant Lead Attendance Officer - ECRB

• Pay Rate: £22.00 ph Limited Co (estimated and tbc) or £18.00 ph PAYE (+ holiday pay)

• Location: Croydon, CR0

• Department/Division: Educational Welfare/Children's Learning Services

• Our reference for quoting on all correspondence: Croydon 298683

• Client: Surrey based local authority

• Anticipated Length of Assignment: 6 months initially, though considered likely to be extended.

• Hours per week: 36, Monday – Friday, normal business hours

• Essence of role:

1. Line manage approximately half the team of Education Welfare Officers offering professional supervision of casework and advice on the use and interpretation of data; assisting in professional development and training; chairing complex school meetings;

2. Manage supervision and PDCS within the guidelines of Council Policy. Take appropriate remedial action to address under performance.

3. To monitor and analyse attendance data of Croydon schools to enable effective support, challenge and target setting.

4. Provide management data and analysis as required eg for Ofsted, APA assessments etc.

5. Work with schools to develop attendance policies and implement effective strategies for ensuring pupils’ regular and punctual attendance, drawing on local and national best practice.

6. Support schools in promoting good attendance through attendance at class and school assemblies and parents meetings.

7. To manage a caseload taking account of the other responsibilities of the post

8. Provide support and guidance to parents and children to bring about improvements in attendance, either individually or in groups

9. Attend EWS Team Meetings, Youth and Social Inclusion meetings and other Directorate meetings as required.


• Candidate requirements (all to be within your CV, please, not just the covering letter):

Essential to have on CV (i.e. without which your CV will be automatically rejected):

- Educational Welfare experience, or social worker if experience covers educational welfare and education legislation
- enhanced CRB check
- full driver's licence plus use of a vehicle


• Next Steps:

If you would like to be considered for the position please apply via this website, quoting the vacancy reference number.

Please do not apply for this position if you have already given another agency the right to represent you for this particular role.

We can only consider employing you through a limited company structure if we can be satisfied that you are not in breach of managed service company legislation and regulations. Our standard settlement terms with contractors are to pay monthly.

All applications will be individually responded to by email, with the exception of applications that arrive after a role has been closed, or where your CV fails to meet the “Essential” candidate requirements called for above.

Please do not telephone us for progress reports on your application, as we are largely an internet based agency and most of our recruitment consultants and their support teams are off-site.

You are very welcome to stay in contact with us by email, however.

Please note that all of our vacancies are also posted to our own website, being www.triumph.gb.com where you may also subscribe to a real-time RSS feed for all new vacancies as they are posted.