Education Welfare Officer

This is an exciting opportunity for an Education Welfare Officer to support the welfare and attendance of children and young people across West Wiltshire.

As an Education Welfare Officer, you'll collaborate closely with Primary and Secondary schools, parents, and carers, building strong relationships and positively influence attendance outcomes. You'll also engage with Academies who buy into the Education Welfare Service.

Responsibilities include fulfilling Local Authority statutory duties around attendance, such as court papers and representation, and provide individual support to children and young people through casework and assessments.

Candidates must possess direct experience in working with children and families, familiarity with statutory obligations, and adeptness in multi-disciplinary settings. Exceptional interpersonal skills, the capacity to manage complex workloads, generate quality reports and court documents, alongside proficient IT skills and data interpretation abilities, are vital.

To change everything around you, change where you work

Whether your aspirations lie in children's services or adult care, you can build a life that has real balance at Wiltshire Council. We are a positive and innovative place to work and bring a genuine can-do approach to everything we do. We have simplified our structures to ensure that our decisions are focused on our communities. Protecting the vulnerable is one of our key priorities - help us achieve this.

Our promise to you

We are innovating to create strong communities - we will empower you to share your ideas, to make suggestions and to help us find new solutions to old problems, whilst supporting you with the latest technology and encouraging collaboration with our communities, partners and colleagues.

We don't focus on limitations; we focus on opportunities and possibilities. In doing so, we're perfectly placed to help you achieve your potential and enjoy a truly fulfilling career. And this means you'll be able to empower our communities too, working collaboratively to help our residents live happier, healthier lives.

Our focus is on creating strong communities and we need aspirational, committed social workers. Learn about our approach to social care, our new social care academy and browse our vacancies.

We give our staff the opportunity to learn, develop, and grow. Our induction process for new starters is excellent, and you will receive regular supervision and training, access to memberships and subscriptions such as Research in Practice and Social Care Information and Learning Services (SCILS), team meetings, peer groups, journal clubs - the list goes on!