Education Brokerage Officer

The Education Commissioning team within the Wellbeing and Partnerships Team in the Children’s and Families Directorate have a focus on ensuring children and young people are able to access suitable education to meet their needs and provided with the opportunity to achieve their potential.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and organised person to take on the role of Education Brokerage Officer.

This role will focus on ensuring and facilitating appropriate alternative education provision can be accessed by children and young people who are unable to attend education at school. This is a busy fast moving area of work.

It is an exciting opportunity for you to develop the role and take forward this growing area of work. If you are able to use your initiative, experienced in working with a range of different practitioners and stakeholders and most importantly want to help improve outcomes for children and young people we want you to hear from you.

You will join a friendly, hardworking and committed team with a passion to achieve the best outcomes for children and young people

This is a permanent post and the possibility of a temporary 12 month fixed term post/secondment.

Main Responsibilities

In this role, you will focus on ensuring those children who are unable to attend a school placement can access suitable alternative provision to meet their needs.

You will be:

• liaising with a range of practitioners and professionals to source and put in place alternative provision packages which meet individual needs.
• training keyworkers and partners on the process for accessing alternative provision.
• quality assurance of referrals for alternative provision.
• promoting the dynamic purchasing system to new providers to increase the range of alternative provision available.
• overseeing block contracts with providers

The Ideal Candidate

You will have:

• GCSE in Mathematics and English, or equivalent qualification
• NVQ3 or equivalent qualification or the relevant work experience
• An understanding of relevant legislative for Children and Families/Education Services
• Experience of liaising with, training, providing advice to a wide range of professionals
• Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in partnership with broad range of professionals

For further information about this role please contact Carolyn Knight at carolyn.knight@staffordshire.gov.uk

Interview will be held week commencing 2 December 2024.

“We’re happy to talk flexible working” 

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. 

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. 

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post. 

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.