School Admissions Caseworker

Job purpose:

• To provide, on a day to day basis, a high quality service in the management of all school admissions throughout the County, both for the normal year of entry and midyear.
• To provide a high quality independent school admission appeals service both where the Council is the admission authority for the school under appeal and where own admission authority schools commission this.
• To contribute to the work needed for the Council to meet its statutory responsibilities as an admission authority, a coordinating Local Authority and with regard to the publication of the annual composite prospectus.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Assisting in the processing of all parental preferences for school places.
• Maintaining an up to date knowledge of national admissions legislation and local policies and procedures.
• Providing relevant information to support the team's work on independent school admission appeals.
• Advising parents about the midyear, secondary transfer and primary school admission processes and to do the necessary individual casework.
• Being competent with all the IT systems used in the school admission process.
• Contributing to the annual process of consulting on, determining and publishing admission arrangements including advising schools on how to update their arrangements to comply with new legislation or take account of changes to working practices.
• Contributing to work with commissioners/partners to ensure a robust approach to data analysis and forecasting.

Requirements:

• A basic knowledge of; education law and statutory codes of practice with respect to admissions and related issues, practices and procedures; relevant statutory and County Council Plans.
• Basic skills in the assembling of data and the use of spreadsheets to display it.
• Proficiency in IT equivalent to the European Computer Driving Licence.
• Must be comfortable working with a degree of ambiguity and uncertainty within casework.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Enhanced DBS dated within the last 12 months. On the update service? You could be fast tracked through our recruitment process today.
• Willingness to complete an enhanced DBS if you do not currently hold one.

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‍Must be eligible to work in the U.K