Team manager - Attendance and children out of school (E2839)

Team Manager – Attendance and Children Out of School

Interim team manager role within the Education, Participation and Pupil Support Team, leading the attendance and children out of school team across Cheshire East. This post is fixed term initially for 6 months awaiting the exciting transformational changes in Children\’s Services in Cheshire East.

Organisation: Cheshire East Council

Location: Crewe

Job Category: Education

Grade: CEC NJC – Grade 12

Salary: Min £53,289 Per Annum, Max £60,830 Per Annum

Hours per week: 37

Weeks per year: 52.143

Employment Type: Fixed Term

Contract Duration: 6 months

Closing Date: 10/01/2025

Ref No: E2839

Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we offer a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.

At Cheshire East Council, we are working for a brighter future together. Our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.

If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, and are committed to working as part of a team to deliver exceptional service, we would especially like to hear from you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future together.

Exciting Opportunity: Lead the attendance and children out of school team across Cheshire East.

Leading a busy team to implement the local authority responsibilities for children out of school due to absence, elective home education, or missing education.

Agile working between our office base in Delamere House in Crewe, home, and Cheshire East schools with IT equipment provided to support agile working.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Leading and supporting the decision-making around penalty notices and prosecutions.
2. Ensuring the team delivers the expected statutory responsibilities in DFE Working Together to Improve Attendance guidance.
3. Management oversight of allocation, case work, and closure with positive outcomes.
4. Connecting with multi-agency partners to ensure attendance is everyone\’s business and make education a protective factor.
5. Driving change around attendance for vulnerable children and young people.
6. Traded service oversight and support.

Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands, or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore disclose any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion; however, please do not be discouraged from applying again.

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