Job Description

Education Inclusion Worker - Multi Disciplinary Team, South Essex
Fixed Term, until February 2027 (with possibility of extension)
Target Start Date of January 2026
Full Time, 37 hours per week
31,879 to 37,504 per annum
Location: Basildon
Working Style:
Closing Date: 28th September 2025
Come and join our Multi-Disciplinary Team in Basildon, Essex!
Are you ready for the challenge of being at the forefront of innovative practice?
This is an exciting time for children's Social Work in Essex. We are seeking experienced, motivated and passionate individuals to join our team. Being led by the Team Manager, you will be working to create the conditions for success within a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team. A team providing specialist support to families. The team will be based with social work teams, where they will provide bespoke specialist intervention.
We really want you to be a part of our vision and making this a reality. If you have the drive, creativity and enthusiasm to enhance and improve the lives of Children and Families we want to hear from you.
If you join our team, we will support you to develop an understanding of a systemic theoretical framework and embrace the excellent models of practice which will underpin our interventions. You will have access to the right tools, equipment and resources alongside effective supervision, training and learning opportunities they need to become excellent practitioners.
We have invested in our workforce and created a positive environment for our social workers to make a difference and achieve change for our most vulnerable children and families through direct relationship-based social work practice. Essex Social Care Academy (ESCA) is the only Local Authority team in the Country to be accredited by BASW as a CPD provider.
If you think you have what it takes, we'd love to hear from you.
The role
We are looking for an experienced practitioner who is confident working within the education environment and who can work with multiple partners to support children and young people access an appropriate education.
The Education Inclusion Worker will support sustainable inclusion for children and young people through targeted support to educational settings, families and partners. The role requires knowledge, experience and expertise in dealing with improving levels of attendance and a much broader understanding of the barriers to attendance an attendance.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience required

• Educated to RQF Level 3 (A Level) or equivalent by experience.
• Experience of working in the education field and with relevant experience particularly around school attendance and alternative provision.
• Ability to engage with and deal with families and young people who are often facing complex and challenging circumstances as well as a good understanding of the barriers to attendance and attainment.
• Strong track record of working creatively with children and young people as well as using initiative to ensure positive outcomes for young people.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills with an understanding of how to facilitate and mediate in situations which are perceived as challenging.
• Strong experience of working effectively in partnership with families and other professionals and education providers including schools.
• Good knowledge of DfE guidance around exclusions, attendance and alternative provision.

Accountabilities

• Provide targeted intervention, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, to families and professionals at points of change and transition to support longer term resilience and the dialogue essential to the success of educational placements and outcomes.
• Responsible for utilising and model enabling, collaborative and person-centred ways of working to ensure pupil and family voices are captured, valued and held at the heart of planning for children and young people.
• Identify and facilitate effective ways of gathering, recording and sharing information about a child or young person, their family, setting or situation, to inform the planning for them, through statutory or non-statutory plans.
• Support the partnership between educational setting staff, families and other stakeholders, to promote shared understanding of the aspirations, needs, outcomes and required provision for children and young people.
• Work directly with children and young people and their families to develop their understanding and participation pertaining to education attainment and aspirations.
• Responsible for providing expert advice and guidance to schools and families to ensure all parties have a clear understanding of the impact of non-attendance and explore ways in which non-attendance can be mitigated.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders to define school requirements and deliver timely, quality value for money services.
• Formulate action plans for high level targeted support, to ensure intervention measures are tailored appropriately to raise attainment and outcomes for all children, but with a specific focus on narrowing the gap for vulnerable groups.
• Responsible for safeguarding children's welfare through the development of positive attendance strategies.
• Responsible for providing regular progress reports clearly demonstrating improvements across schools, highlighting barriers and recommending solutions to evidence achievement of positive outcomes.
• Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

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