Attendance Welfare Officer

Grade and Salary: Grade 5: £27,007 - £28,858 actual salary per annum (£31,537 - £33,699 FTE) Working Pattern: 37 hours / 39 working weeks (Term time plus INSET days) Contract Term: Permanent The Trust is recruiting for an Attendance Welfare Officer to work with our schools, located within Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The role will work with families, external agencies and colleagues to respond to, support, and implement student and family engagement strategies as part of the early help offer, which in turn enable the barriers faced by young people to achieving positive attendance patterns at school to be overcome. The successful applicant will have experience of working with young people in a variety of settings and with vulnerable families / young people who experience challenging circumstances. To secure the role you will need to understand the barriers to learning and attending school which are faced by young people and how they can be overcome. As this role includes home visits, a full driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use is also required. Why join us? There are many reasons to choose The Two Counties Trust as a great place to start or continue your career. We recognise the importance of a happy, healthy, rewarded and well motivated workforce and as such we have developed our HR strategy to invest in our employees. We have removed appraisal and appraisal related pay progression, changing the focus from validation to professional growth and enabling all our employees to get better all the time. We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within schools and across the Trust and we offer extensive professional learning opportunities for all employees. We offer: Highly competitive pay and pay progression opportunities. We do not operate appraisal or appraisal related pay progression. All employees participate in our Professional Learning Scheme which supports colleagues to develo