Education Partnership Officer | Education Improvement Service | Preston

Overview

In this role, you will support schools, settings, and partners within a locality-based framework to improve outcomes for children and young people. You will help identify local priorities, navigate services, and connect schools with appropriate expertise via the Experts at Hand and TASS approaches. Your work will be outward-facing, building cross-agency relationships and turning local intelligence into practical actions. You contribute to service development by monitoring demand and sharing learning to inform district and county-wide priorities. This is a meaningful opportunity to shape collaborative solutions that strengthen local education partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Lead Locality Groups and SEND Clusters to agree shared priorities and actions
• Support delivery of the Team Around the School and Setting (TASS) approach in allocated localities
• Act as district contact for Experts at Hand to route advice and specialist support
• Use data and local intelligence to identify needs, gaps, risks and barriers
• Build relationships across education, health, SEND, children’s services and community organisations
• Support partners to develop collaborative and preventative solutions to complex local issues
• Monitor demand and outcomes to inform service improvement and wider priorities
• Deliver briefings, training and development activity to promote locality-based ways of working

Key requirements

• Experience in partnership or multi-agency working
• Understanding of education, SEND, inclusion or related children’s services
• Excellent communication, influencing and problem-solving skills
• Ability to navigate complex systems and translate local intelligence into action

• communication
• in fluencing
• problem-solving
• relationship-building
• data analysis
• interpretation of local intelligence

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