Southampton City Council Hiring for Senior Children Missing Education Officer Job at Southampton, England Full Time

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In Southampton, we are on a successful journey of improvement. At the heart of our vision is a commitment to give all our children and young people the very best life chances through empowering them and their families. As the Senior CME Officer, you will ensure outstanding services are provided both to the Education Service and to our partners that help us improve performance and secure quality and value for money in service delivery. Working as a key member of the Inclusion Services team, you will be instrumental in the contribution, design and delivery of policies and strategies that achieves the ambition that Southampton is on a journey to outstanding for children to ensure they receive the education and support they are entitled too.

Children Missing education are those who are of compulsory school age, who are not registered pupils at a school and are not receiving a suitable education, otherwise at school. Reporting directly to the Children Not in School Manager, you will deliver the LA’s statutory duty, whilst working closely with the Education and Learning teams to champion the right to education, ensuring robust tracking and monitoring processes are in place and providing advice to parent, schools and other stakeholders.

You will:

• Lead the development and delivery of the Children Missing Education service (CME) and upcoming national changes
• Develop and champion our approach to continuous improvement
• Supporting the development and maintenance of service strategies, policies, guidance and procedures
• Ensure that service users’ voices are heard across all our policies, strategies and emerging initiatives
• Work with the CNIS Manager to develop an inclusive service designed to meet the challenges we face as a city as well as leading on service planning, needs analyses and innovative research
• You will bring in the relevant experience to work within the relevant legislative and policy context for each area and a track record in leading performance, policy and strategy teams, working closely with senior managers and partners. You will possess excellent analytical skills as well as the ability to lead successful projects and support change and improvement programmes.

Your track record will include demonstrable improvement in outcomes based on delivering effective quality assurance and performance management. You will be able to evidence leadership, negotiation and relationship management skills appropriate to delivering high profile, complex services that have a profound impact on the effectiveness, availability and value for money of services to the department and to children and their families.

For further information about this role please view the job description.

If you feel you have the necessary background, experience and skills to undertake this role we would like to hear from you.

Contact details for informal discussion:

For further information and details regarding the position please contact Bryn Roberts – Bryn.Roberts@Southampton.gov.uk

Additional information:

• This post requires an Enhanced DBS check.
• For any posts that require a DBS check, if you have lived outside the UK within the last 5 years, you will be required to provide a Certificate of Good Conduct or a police certificate from the country/countries you have resided in. Kindly note that this is at the expense of the candidate, as well as any costs involved for translating into English.
• Please note the salary quoted is based on full time hours (37 hours).
• Working hours 37 per week
• Please note all adverts close to applications at 23.55pm on the specified closing date.

The supporting statement section of the application form must be completed, unless there are specific criteria questions for you to evidence against. Applications are shortlisted against the essential and desirable criteria found within the job description for the post. Please refer to the job description when completing your application form and evidence how you meet the required criteria/questions. A CV on its own will not be considered.

Unfortunately we are not able to accept applications that are made through a third party agency. We cannot guarantee that any correspondence sent from third party agencies will be responded to. To ensure your application is received please apply online at www.careers.southampton.gov.uk

Recruitment contact details: 023 8083 4033 or recruitment@southampton.gov.uk

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