Job Description

North Lincolnshire Council is seeking an innovative, enthusiastic, and skilled individual to join our Virtual School and Inclusion Service as an Education Inclusion Officer. This is a fixed term contract of 24 months.



The successful candidate will support children and families to resolve any concerns or problems of non-attendance at school. Building on the council's One Family Approach, as an Education Inclusion Officer (School Attendance) you will provide practical guidance to schools on attendance policy and the law, support for individual cases and identified cohorts and dedicated advice and support to children and their parents/carers on promoting good attendance and punctuality.


This role will provide positive dedicated support to remove the barriers that prevent children and young people from attending school. The successful candidate will join a dedicated group of officers who are responsible for promoting equality of opportunity for all children to enable access to appropriate educational entitlement. It is essential that you have the skills and experience to work on your own initiative while managing a demanding workload, prioritising work, and adopting a flexible approach to changing and competing challenges. The post holder must have a good understanding of the education system, especially in relation to school attendance.


Informal enquiries may be made to Joanne Westaway - Senior Education Inclusion Officer on joanne.westaway@northlincs.gov.uk or 01724 297502.



Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.

As an employer, we promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from existing and prospective employees or volunteers. Recruitment to this post will follow our safer recruitment procedure which includes us requesting references prior to interview and a DBS check.

We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values - equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility - in all that we do.