Achievement Officer

What will you be doing?

You will be responsible for championing and supporting children’s engagement and progress in their early year’s education. You will do this through liaison with education settings and childcare providers, carers and any other related agencies or professionals, to improve the life chances of children.

You will proactively support education settings so that they can enable a child to engage and make progress through the early years foundation stage.

You will ensure that all case work records are kept in line with service expectations and agreed operational policy, practice and procedures.

You will represent The Virtual School at Multi Agency Meetings as and when required e.g., initial and review Personal Education Plans.

About you

We are looking to recruit a forward-thinking person who works well in a team. You will need:

• To be educated to Level 3 or above and have GCSE (or equivalent) Maths and English at grade 4/C or above.
• To have good IT skills and be willing to learn how to use a diverse range of IT systems.
• A good knowledge of early years education.
• Knowledge and understanding of the needs and entitlements of children and young people in care.
• To have excellent communication skills and experience of building good working relationships.
• Excellent organisational skills, and the ability to manage your own case load.
• You must be able to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.  

Where you will be working: 

The Virtual School working pattern includes working from home, attending education settings and other venues in the community across Northamptonshire and occasionally out of the county, and some days working from our office at ONE Angel Square, Northampton.

Next steps: 

If you like what you have read and want to know more about the role then please contact Paul Andrews on 07738638636 or email paul.andrews@northnorthants.gov.uk or Charlotte Franks on 07342069897 or email charlotte.franks@northnorthants.gov.uk  

Closing date for applications (we do not accept CVs) is 12’noon, Monday 15^th May 2023. 

Provisional interview date will be the Monday 22^nd and Tuesday 23^rd May 2023.

Our benefits

We offer:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (27 days, rising to 32 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

About us

We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country. Our vision for North Northants is to be 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quality of life'.

Our priorities are:

• helping people live active fulfilled lives
• caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
• enabling a thriving and successful economy
• leading on a green and sustainable environment
• ensuring our communities are connected so they can shape their lives and where they live
• providing modern public services

Our values, as chosen by our staff, are - Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive and Trustworthy.

Your differences make us different - Achieve Together.

We are undertaking consultation with the Trade Unions on terms and conditions and the future NNC pay structure and during this time are appointing new employees on interim spot salaries. You will be advised of the outcome and any impact on your role once this work is complete.