Home Academy Liaison Officer

(39 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week) £31,500 - £33,500pa full time and actual salary is £27,000-£28,500pa

We are currently seeking a Home Academy Liaison Officer (HALO) to oversee educational welfare based in Willesden.

Key Requirements:

• · Overseeing Educational Welfare.
• · Managing a caseload of 'at risk’ students, where attendance falls below 85% and implement strategies to improve attendance
• · Monitoring and improving the attendance of most vulnerable students
• · Ensuring compliance with statutory duties, including reporting
• · Conducting home visits to engage families and address barriers to school attendance
• · Maintaining accurate attendance records and preparing reports
• · Ensuring effective communication/consultation as appropriate with the parents of students
• · Leading on legal interventions for non-attendance where necessary
• · Maintaining the alternative provision tracker and monitoring student progress
• · Ensuring safeguarding and health and safety standards in alternative provision settings

Key Skills:

• · Qualifications to degree level or equivalent
• · Knowledge of behaviour for learning policies
• · Knowledge of the range of barriers to learning that students face
• · Training in child protection and safeguarding procedures
• · Basic knowledge of first aid (e.g. emergency first aid course)
• · At least three years’ experience of working in an inner city school or educational establishment in a pastoral capacity
• · Experience of dealing successfully with a range of issues influencing poor attendance
• · Experience of working with staff to ensure excellent standards of attendance and punctuality
• · Experience of working with families
• · Experience of working with challenging students and parents, and finding ways in which we can meet their needs more successfully

Please note, due to the volume of responses we receive, if you do not hear from us within 14 days, then on this occasion your CV was unsuccessful.