Senior Children Missing Education Officer

Are you a highly organised, self motivate and methodical individual who can work to tight deadlines? Are you IT literate and able to work with multiple databases and systems to identify and track children who have become missing from education? Are you able to build and maintain strong working relationships with a range of colleagues including schools, health, social care. If so we would like to hear from you?

The Senior CME officer is central to ensuring that the LA is fully compliant with the statutory duties in relation to Children Missing from Education. You will be part of a highly committed and supportive team, playing a central role in the LA education safeguarding strategy.

You will be responsible for leading on the identification and tracking of children who leave Sheffield schools and/or ‘become missing’ from a school roll. You will work alongside schools and other professionals, to perform a range of checks and enquires, using both local and national databases/sources to establish the whereabouts of missing children. You will be responsible for ensuring that our work complies with data sharing and GDPR policies and legislation.

In this role you will also be responsible for line managing the Access and Admissions Monitoring Officer to ensure that high quality performance and monitoring data is maintained, and that quality assurance activities are completed in a timely manner to ensure data integrity and quality.

The post holder will also work alongside the CME Team manager to review and update policies and procedures to ensure that these are complaint with the relevant statutory guidance and established best practice.

We are looking for a candidate who is confident, has excellent customer service skills, is a confident and effective communicator, can excel in building professional multi-agency relationships and have a sensitive approach to dealing with often complex situations.

If you have any questions, please contact Shaklil Zaman 07585882841 or email shaklil.zaman@sheffield.gov.uk

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.