Family Intervention Worker: Elective Home Education Service

We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled individual to join the Elective Home Education (EHE) Service to support our commitment to safeguarding and general wellbeing. The successful candidate will work with home educators to support children’s access to a suitable education in line with the Department for Education’s EHE Guidelines and other key policy documents. This role will involve engaging home educators, building positive relations and providing information about local authority expectations and EHE Service processes. Experience of working with families, delivering information, providing support, signposting and assessing needs are key.

This post will involve multi-agency working; you will work alongside schools and other professionals to support the best possible educational outcomes for children educated at home. This is a hybrid full-time permanent post and will involve travelling around Sheffield alongside working from the office, home and other locations.

Please note, the Intervention role within the Elective Home Education Service, focuses on parental provision as opposed to school attendance. This post does not center on long-term or ongoing family work with a specific caseload of children. This post will primarily involve short-term contact with families at the start of their home education.

Specific duties will include:

Conducting initial wellbeing visits, meetings or appointments with EHE families to explain the role of the EHE service, provide initial information and advice regarding EHE processes and criteria for EHE. Explain the educational expectations and responsibilities of EHE whilst offering support and advice.
Liaising with other professionals to find alternative educational options when required in line with service policies, making onward referrals as and when needed.
Signposting home educators to additional support and providing links to other professionals and agencies such as SENDSARS, Children Missing Education, admissions, SSENDIAS, etc
Overseeing referral documentation and EHE notifications via contact with schools/professionals, identifying barriers and information sharing.
Completing pupil mapping and RAG rating.
Attending and contributing to professional meetings and reviews to advocate for the child or provide information and advice to other professionals or parents.
Responding to non-engagement and undertaking planned and unannounced visits.
Supporting pupil transitions between school, college or home.
Making contact with any child or family known to the Service as and when required, prioritising actions and contact based on safeguarding priorities and educational need.
Supporting the work of EHE Officers and other team members.
Developing and maintaining a good understanding of internal EHE frameworks and policies, alongside DFE guidance for EHE. Developing a solid working understanding of other relevant agencies and their referral processes.
Multi-agency working.
Contributing to the collection of child-led data and pupil mapping, utilising signs of safety and EHE expectations.
Maintaining pupil records, case files, reports and providing data as and when required.

You must have GCSE’s in Maths and English (grade 9-4) or equivalent. Applicants must also have significant experience of working with vulnerable children and their families, promoting engagement and be skilled at understanding family dynamics and assessing risk.

Please refer to the specific duties listed in the job advert, alongside the person specification, when completing your application.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.