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About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

Working in Haringey is all about making a difference to people’s everyday lives, making the environment in which they live a better place, and giving them the tools they need to improve their own lives and play an active role in the community.

We are determined to rise to the challenge and find new ways to ensure that our residents enjoy the best opportunities in life – through excellent education, training, access to facilities and community empowerment. Working at Haringey gives you the opportunity to play a part in meeting those ambitions on behalf of everyone who calls the borough their home.

We are excited to be recruiting new education welfare officers to join our Attendance and Welfare Team and help deliver on our core values.

The team delivers high quality advice, guidance and statutory intervention to schools, lead professionals and families. Our education welfare officers use their expert understanding of the complex and multiple drivers for poor attendance and behaviour to work with children and families and the systems around them to improve school attendance.

Our Education Welfare Officers have a crucial role in discharging the local authority’s statutory responsibilities with relation to school attendance and inclusion. They will support families and professionals through the legal framework and the use of parental responsibility measures, including penalty notices, parenting contracts and where there is no alternative, through prosecution or application for an Education Supervision Order at court.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

About you

You will be a skilled practitioner demonstrating a dynamic and evidence-based approach to improving school attendance. You will have proven skills in balancing the appropriate use of authority and challenge with transparency and empathy, working in collaboration with parents and carers to find alternatives to legal action. Your passion for making a difference to those young people most at risk will be evident at all times, including actively addressing the impact of disadvantage, discrimination and disproportionality in all you do. You will have the flexibility to adapt to a changing legal and statutory landscape, delivering on new requirements and expectations with creativity and purpose. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled professional to be part of our continued mission to improve school attendance and promote the wellbeing, safety, and life chances of children to ensure a fairer future for all