Education Welfare Officer

Job description

Working within Education & Inclusion (Education Welfare Service) to deliver effective, high quality, school attendance services and make sure the Council meets its statutory duties around school attendance. To work closely with schools to enable them to manage their attendance and provide opportunities for all pupils to attend and learn. To work in collaboration with a wide range of partners.

Cheshire West and Chester Council brings a fresh and energetic approach to providing top quality services for its many customers and communities. West Cheshire is a place where everyone can Thrive - through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.

Improving school attendance is everyone's business. The barriers to accessing education are wide and complex, both within and beyond the school gates, and are often specific to individual pupils and families.

Some pupils find it harder than others to attend school and therefore at all stages of improving attendance, schools and partners should work with pupils and parents to remove any barriers to attendance by building strong and trusting relationships and working together to put the right support in place to enable pupils to access the full-time education to which they are entitled.

Securing good attendance needs effective practices for improvement and involves close interaction with schools' efforts on curriculum, behaviour, bullying, special educational needs support, pastoral and mental health and wellbeing, and effective use of resources, including pupil premium.

The team quality assures and process all the legal intervention requests; investigates Children Missing in Education enquiries; prepares and facilitates half termly Network Meetings and Good Practice sharing session to school staff; completes the Statutory Targeted Support Meetings and Register Inspections; support schools to be Ofsted ready and is pivotal to helping schools keep children safe and ensuring their full entitlement to their education.

We are looking for applicant who is experienced in working with schools and has great people skills and data skills too to join our strong and supportive Education Welfare Service based in Winsford. If you are motivated to develop best practice, work on your own initiative, support the team to provide a high quality service, have strong reflective practise and direction and are enthusiastic about contributing to service development for the team; then we would welcome your application.

Should you require any information about the post then please direct any queries to Morag Bragger 01606 275759 or via email: [email protected]

Interviews will he held on 1 October 2026.

Please note that this job is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

FLEXIBLE WORKING - Flexible working arrangements ensure you can achieve a healthy work life balance. The contractual work location for this role is listed above. You may be required to work from a range of work locations or sites within the Borough and will also be required to work from home, depending on the needs of the service.

To find out more information about what it is like to work for Cheshire West and Chester Council including our rewards and benefits please see www.cwcrecruitment.co.uk