The ESA will be spend time attending Personal Education Planning meetings (PEP’s), arranging interventions, supporting good attendance, selecting schools and ensuring all children make more than expected progress. There is a mix of casework, senior administration and coordinator skills needed for this job. This role will be highly supportive to schools, social workers, carers and other professionals and will involve administration of pupil premium, administering PEPs and ensuring plans from these get implemented.

The successful candidates will have experience of working with young people or educational or social care environment combined with outstanding organisational and communication skills. This person will need to be flexible in approach and have knowledge of approaches that can support young people best in their learning.

The key purpose of this position is to ensure that these Children and Young people have improved educational outcomes including progress, attendance and attainment.

Although the role is mainly based in Brighton it will involve some travel mainly within Sussex.

Brighton & Hove City Council – Taking Action for Equality.