Virtual School Advisor

here for gaining approval from your current line manager. If you are offered the role and you do not have agreement this will cause significant delays to the process. For information, please note that there is currently an ongoing review within Children and Families to realign individual teams and the wider team's ways of working. As a result, this role may be affected by the review. For further information, please speak to the hiring manager. Main Responsibilities Main Responsibilities You will be contributing to raising the standards of educational attainment, achievement and attendance of children looked after to Staffordshire including:

• maintaining effective monitoring and tracking systems for Looked After Children's educational attainment.
• responsibility for implementing the Virtual School new to care process.
• attend and contribute to Personal Education Plans for C&YP as directed by the education coordinator and ensure SMART aspirational target setting for looked after pupils.
• respond to identified areas of educational need within settings for young people in public care and care leavers under the direction of the education transition co-coordinator e.g.:
1. Where there is danger of suspension/place withdrawal 2. Where the young person is not in education, employment or training 3. Where there is poor or non-attendance. 4. Where the young person is under achieving educationally

Do you have knowledge of the education and care systems, and how they impact on children's education?, You will need to be passionate about working with young people, with excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills and have experience of working with both teaching and social care professionals. The minimum criteria that will be used to shortlist for this role will be:
• experience working directly with vulnerable children in an education setting.
• knowledge and understanding of the education system and services.
• experience of strategies to motivate and engage vulnerable children and young people.
• experience of supporting multi-agency partnership working.
• an understanding of the effect of trauma and attachment on the education of looked after children.
  
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