Pembrokeshire County Council Hiring for Education Welfare Service Manager Job at Pembrokeshire , UK Full Time

This is an exciting and rare opportunity to join the extended leadership team of Pembrokeshire’s Education Directorate, as the leader of our Education Welfare Service (EWS).

Our EWS is an effective, highly regarded team, which leads on school attendance, Elective Home Education, child employment and performance licensing, and children missing education. We are looking for an experienced professional in children and young people’s services, preferably with a background in Education Welfare work, which could be gained from working in a local authority or school settings.

If you have a passion to make a real difference to children and young people’s lives, we want to hear from you.

This post is subject to a DBS disclosure check.

Safeguarding and protecting children and adults at risk is a high priority for Pembrokeshire County Council. We aim to support vulnerable children and adults at risk to ensure they are as safe as they can possibly be. We are committed to ensuring their safety and will take action to safeguard their well-being. The Council’s Corporate Safeguarding Policy provides a framework for every member of staff and Service within the Council, setting out responsibilities in relation to safeguarding and protecting children and adults at risk as well as the methods by which the Council will be assured that it is fulfilling its duties.

This policy applies to all Council employees and workforce, councillors, volunteers and also service providers that are commissioned by the Council. Safeguarding is everyone’s business whether they work for, or on behalf of the Council.

We request that all applicants submit online applications. If you are unable to do this, please contact the Recruitment Administrator as early as possible by emailing [email protected].

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Local government employees on the terms of the National Joint Council are subject to national wage bargaining; all salaries currently in our adverts are as at 01/04/2022.

Please note, we have a legal obligation to consider employees for suitable alternative employment if their posts are at risk; therefore prior consideration will be given to existing employees who meet the person specification and are registered on our redeployment pool.

Welsh language skills are desirable.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than applications submitted in English.