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The role includes, but isn't restricted to:
- Monitoring attendance and attainment for identified cohort.
- Supporting social workers with school applications where necessary
- Attending individual PEP meetings for identified cohort to ensure clear smart targets are set and that there is effective use of pupil premium plus funding
- Attending additional professional meetings where time allows including annual reviews and child in care meetings
- Discussing issues with a young person that are impacting on their engagement with school and education
- Liaising with schools regarding their current cohort of children in care and monitoring overall provision and support;
- Attending re-integration meetings in support of the child in care, the social worker and the foster carer;
- Liaising with external educational providers eg tuition agencies to provide education when a school placement breaks down;
- Working with SEN colleagues to ensure provision is appropriate for looked after children placed in independent schools or in education provision provided by the residential care placement;
- Responding to individual enquiries from schools, admissions teams, social workers, and foster carers about identified cohort.
Special requirements for this post
You will need to have qualified teacher status
About you
As a member of the Virtual School team, you will champion our young people with SEND and ensure that they are given the educational support they need to thrive. You will monitor their attendance, attainment and exclusions, providing advice and support to schools and social workers.
You will be a tenacious practitioner with good communication skills and the ability to build strong partnerships within the Local Authority and beyond.
About us
Our vision for our Council is ‘No-one left behind’, something the Virtual School embraces wholeheartedly. The Virtual School has grown over the past few years to support the increasing number of Looked after Children. We are excellent at supporting our young people and our results have been consistently above average for the last 5 years. Barking and Dagenham is a New Kind of Council. Over the past four years we have gone through an ambitious transformation programme to ensure we can deliver real change with our community. This has seen us transform the council and the way we deliver services to our residents. Our borough is vibrant and diverse, and this is something we are proud of. We value the diversity of people who live, work and visit Barking and Dagenham and it is our vision to create a place where people understand, respect and celebrate each other’s differences.
