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SalaryDirectorate: Children and Family Services
Section: Education and Family Support
Grade: Level 7
Hours: 37
This advert is open to internal and External applicants.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Place Planning and Sufficiency Team. The role will provide support to the work of early years / school Place Planning and sufficiency and manage a coordinated approach to ensuring sufficient early years and educational provision for children aged 0 – 19 or up to 25 where a young person has a special educational need and/or is disabled and/or is a looked after child.
The role includes (see the job description for full detail):
- Monitoring net capacity and sufficiency across all educational sectors
- Forecasting the future need for school places via the analysis of demographic and other data
- Working closely with relevant teams and partners to support the Local Authority in meeting sufficiency for educational places
- Producing documents for a range of audiences, including briefings and reports for the Place Planning and Sufficiency Board
- Providing advice and supporting school re-organisations and school capital schemes
- Advising on the statutory process in relation to the consultation on admission arrangements
- Supporting the management of academisation processes for remaining maintained schools
- Supporting the delivery of school admissions appeals
Strong IT skills and data analysis will be a key requirement of this role. If you think that you have the relevant skills and experience then please take a look at the job description.
Please note that if an employee who is currently at risk of redundancy within the organisation applies for this vacancy their application will receive priority. If this happens you will be advised accordingly.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Stoke-on-Trent City Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this – we therefore encourage applications from all sections of our community. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed together.
To Apply - please visit our website https://webrecruitment.stoke.gov.uk/wrl/ If you have any queries or want an application form in another format, please email recruitment@stoke.gov.uk or call us on 01782 238189.
