Virtual School Post 16 Education Officer

Warwickshire Virtual School is a team that promotes the education of children and young people in local authority care, ensuring statutory duties are effectively discharged. The team works remotely and from an office base in Warwick every week.

All children and young people have a named Virtual School representative. Education Advisers work directly with all settings attended by Warwickshire’s children in care. They offer bespoke support, challenge, and training to professionals such as teachers and social workers, ensure all children have good quality Personal Education Plans, and that education providers understand their backgrounds and facilitate best outcomes.

Education Officers maintain oversight of pre-school and Post 16 provisions, monitor attendance, quality assure Personal Education Plans and signpost professionals to the best advice and support.

As Post 16 Education Officeryou will manage your own workload and priorities. You will work 37 hours a week, typically between 8am and 4:30pm. You will be required to work a total of 41 weeks, including the Warwickshire School term. Start and end dates will be set around the successful candidate, but the contract will be fixed term for two years from the agreed start date.

Your young people will be identified by Virtual School Officers. You will liaise with social workers and educational professionals to ensure termly Personal Education Plans are supportive and appropriate. Weekly discussions with the existing Education Officer will ensure consistency of advice and support. Regular meetings with the Senior Education Adviser will be where you will raise concerns, seek advice and assistance, and escalate for action.

The Virtual School is a hardworking and proactive team with very high standards and expectations. You will always be supported within this role by all team members.

Daily work typically includes:

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19%, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants.

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

For further information or to arrange a telephone conversation, please contact virtualschool@warwickshire.gov.uk

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.