Education Welfare Officer - 12 month fixed term

  • Employer: St Helens Borough Council
  • Reference: 000928
  • Published: Thu 30/10/2025, 17:01 PM
  • Closing on: Fri 14/11/2025, 0:00 AM
  • Working Pattern: To be confirmed
  • Hours: To be confirmed
  • Salary: From: £28284.76 To: £29728.90 per annum
  • DBS Check: No
  • Workplace: On-Site
  • Location: To be confirmed

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Education Welfare Officer - 12 month fixed term

Championing Attendance, Empowering Futures!

The Education Welfare Service is a statutory service that offers a quality provision to children, their families, and schools. The service aims to enable children and young people to benefit from the educational opportunities available. This can be through supporting families to resolve any problems of non-attendance or increasing education from reduced timetables to accessing opportunities full-time time. This is an exciting time to become part of the EWS team, due to the implementation of new legislation and priorities.

You will work closely with schools, families, and external agencies to promote regular school attendance, safeguard children, and support pupils in overcoming barriers to learning. When you join the Education Welfare team you will help support us in working together to Improve School Attendance legislation and safeguarding for children in education, by working with schools, agencies, children, and their families.

Making a Difference

Whatever stage of your career, working in the public sector puts you at the heart of communities. Our workforce provides services to our resident's day in and day out, making a positive impact on people’s lives. We could not do this without the dedication, professionalism and strength of our workforce. There are so many reasons to choose to work at St Helens Council including the fantastic range of employee benefits and rewards on offer..St Helens Borough Council | Jobs | Search here for your perfect career - Home Page

St Helens Council is officially recognised as one of the region’s leading fair employers, achieving accredited status under the Liverpool City Combined Authority Fair Employment Charter. The Charter recognises the ongoing commitment to fair pay, secure work, training & progression & staff well-being whilst celebrating employers who go above and beyond for their workforce providing an inclusive and supportive environment.

Equality & Diversity

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. The Council guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job, as detailed on the Person Specification, and will, for qualifying disabled candidates, make reasonable adjustments within selection.

All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles

This Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment by supporting schools with welfare concerns, as well as having their own professional curiosity and acting upon it appropriately.
To apply you must be the holder of a full driving licence and have access to a vehicle.
For an informal discussion, please contact Leane Hammerton, Senior Education Welfare Officer, 01744 673356
Full Job Description & Person Specification Documents are included with this advert.
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