Directorate: Children & Family Services

Section: Access & Support for Vulnerable Learners

Grade: Level 4

Actual Salary: £23,114 - £24,294

Hours: 37

This advert is open to both Internal and External applicants.

Stoke-on-Trent Council is committed to inclusion.

We have high ambitions for all our children and young people no matter what their circumstances and want them to thrive in every aspect of their life.

This means that they are supported and empowered to achieve academically and socially to the best of their ability, and to have voice and influence in their lives and community.

We want to ensure that they truly feel that they belong in Stoke.

The Education Re-engagement Team is part of the Access and Support for Vulnerable Children Service within the Children and Families Directorate in Stoke-on-Trent, the team works to re-engage children and young people with education, to build capacity in schools to enable them to meet the needs of an increasingly neuro diverse school population, to ensure that a child’s additional medical/health need does not become a barrier to their educational success, to identify children and young people at risk of exclusion earlier and to sign post schools and families to universal/targeted support through a range of services including Early Help, to reduce the number of permanent exclusions, to ensure that excluding schools are following national guidance and to commission a continuum of quality Alternative Provision (AP) across the city.

This post will require the successful applicant to work flexibly within in the ERT to provide a range of data administration and support across all functions relating to learner records systems and to provide a high level of customer service at all times.

There will be a particular focus on the inputting and tracking of learner data, admissions, course, attendance and outcomes data ensuring that all computerised information is entered in a timely and accurate manner.

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.