Brighton & Hove City Council Hiring for Education Adviser for Children with a Social Worker Job at Portslade, England , UK Full Time

This post involves working in partnership with schools, social workers and teams across the council to support, challenge, and champion the inclusion and education of Children with a social Worker, in order to raise the educational outcomes of this group of children and close the attainment gap.

We are looking for someone who has a proven track record of securing better educational outcomes for disadvantaged children, who can work strategically to enhance partnerships between educational settings and the local authority and promote practice that supports children’s engagement in education. The successful candidate will hold high aspirations for this group of children, in turn helping all agencies to do the same. A clear commitment to demonstrating a positive impact on the attainment and attendance patterns of this cohort of children is a prerequisite for this post.

Three additional SPA’s (performance-related salary increments) are attached to this post, taking the maximum salary to £44,758.

Interview date: Thursday 13th October 2022

For an informal discussion, please contact Sam Wilson – Virtual School Lead on 07787 697 696

(BELOW PARAGRAPHS ARE HR USE ONLY)

Application form + supporting statement

As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and upload a supporting statement. Your supporting statement is the most important part of your application as it will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Supporting statement guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk)) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Application form + shortlisting questions

As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and provide answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk)) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

CV + supporting statement

As part of your application, you will need to upload your CV and a supporting statement. Your supporting statement is the most important part of your application as it will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (CV guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and Supporting statement guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk)) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

CV + shortlisting questions

As part of your application, you will need to upload your CV and answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (CV guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk)) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Job Details

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MANAGERS:
As soon as your job has been approved by the recruitment team your role will be published into redeployment for a period of 1 week.

You also need to put your chosen application method and business case in the notes section. The 4 application methods are listed below:

• Application Form & Supporting Statement

• Application Form & Shortlisting Questions

• CV & Supporting Statement

• CV & Shortlisting Questions

Job location details – PLEASE READ

We would expect the majority of roles to be either frontline/office-based or working in a hybrid way (Options 1 or 2). By exception, and where there is a hard to recruit “professional” /specialist role for a fixed term temporary assignment, recruiting managers may consider allowing the role holder to spend the majority of their time working remotely from home, with only occasional attendance at the office required (Option 3 below). As the Council is still currently piloting its hybrid working arrangements and to ensure consistent and equitable treatment, such arrangements in Option 3 would need to be discussed and agreed in consultation with your HR business partner in the first instance.

Please confirm selection in the Internal notes section:

• Frontline roles or those that have remained office-based throughout

• Part office / part home

• Remote working with occasional attendance in the office

(IMPORTANT NOTE – OPTION 3 ONLY TO BE USED BY EXCEPTION)

Additional Information

Recruitment team to delete out as appropriate

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

For roles being advertised that are either Casual, Scale 1-2, Scale 3 or Scale 4, or have a pro rata entry salary below £20,480:

Work Permits: This role does not meet the requirement for UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) Points-based Immigration System. Successful candidates will need to evidence that they have the Right to Work in the UK.

For all other roles with a pro rata salary greater than £20,480:

Work Permits: We may be able to obtain a Work Permit for this post but this is subject to meeting the requirements of the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) Points-based Immigration System. Please see Gov.uk for more information on the Skilled Worker Visa.

Part office / part home – hybrid – We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.

Working arrangements are subject to Government guidance at the time. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

Remote working with occasional attendance in the office – There is the option for the suitable candidate to choose to work mostly from home. Attendance at the office with reasonable notice would be required on occasion. This notice would be subject to local team and service working arrangements. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

Company Information

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it’s what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Package Description

The role of the Virtual School for Children in Care and Previously in Care has been extended to include all Children with a Social Worker.

This post involves working in partnership with schools, social workers and teams across Families, Children and Learning, to support, challenge, and champion the inclusion and education of Children with a social Worker, in order to raise the educational outcomes of this group of children and close the attainment gap.

Interview date: Thursday 13th October 2022

For an informal discussion, please contact Sam Wilson – Virtual School Lead on 07787 697 696