Inclusion Advisor - Children Missing and Elective Home Education

Full job description

Salary

£41,442 - £44,331 per annum.

Package

Permanent, Full-Time, 36 hours per week.

Job category/type

Education & Schools

Date posted

25/07/2025

Job reference

R0007014

About us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough.

With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Access to Education team as an Inclusion Advisor. The successful candidate will join a hard-working team engaging with families, schools and other agencies to ensure children and young people access education aligned to their needs and circumstances.

We are looking for an experienced advisor interested in a flexible and varied work environment and adept at working with families to enable children and young people access learning.

The Access to Education team take a positive and inclusive approach in line with our duty to secure suitable full-time education for children and young people in Hounslow.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

The Access to Education team play a crucial role in ensuring that children and young people access the learning they are entitled to. There is particular focus on those not on school roll or receiving other suitable education.

Children Missing Education (CME) is a complex issue requiring a collaborative approach to safeguard those missing from education and at risk of CME. The local authority has a legal duty under the Children Act 2004 to locate and place CME to safeguard all children in Hounslow. This involves direct work with families, schools, specialist and advisory services, and sits within a wider Education Inclusion & Participation service in Hounslow.

The team work hard to develop strong, positive relationships with all parties and maintain a clear focus on the progress and needs of the child or young person.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

Being a clear communicator, proactive problem solver and collaborative worker with a clear focus on the importance of children being able to access education.

Having a sound knowledge of and interest in the legislative framework for Children Missing Education, Elective Home Education and other Local Authority functions in relation to full-time education for children and young people of compulsory school age.

Ability to promote collaborative working to ensure a holistic approach, engaging a wide range of professionals in complex casework working with both children and adults as required, to support the team around the child/family process.

Qualifications:

Desirable - a recognised qualification accompanied by experience working with families, children and young people in an advisory setting.

Related qualifications in mentoring, coaching, work with children, young people, and families are advantageous.

Essential for The Role:

Enhanced DBS

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: Graeme.Baker@hounslow.gov.uk

Telephone: 020 8583 2772

Interviews for this job will be held week commencing 15th September 2025.