Prevention Manager
| Posting date: | 04 August 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 September 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5847 |
Summary
Children and Families Department
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £42,498 - £46,344 per annum (pro rata for part-time) Pay Award Pending
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed term/Secondment for 1 year (Please gain consent from your line manager if you are interested in secondment before applying for the post)
Closing Date: Sunday 17th August 2025
Interview Date(s): 21st August 2025
Previous applicants need not reapply, as all prior submissions have been reviewed.
We’re hosting a 30-minute online session on Wednesday, 13th August 2025 from 12:30 to 13:00 via Microsoft Teams. This is a great opportunity for interested applicants to meet with the recruiting manager, ask questions, and gain a deeper understanding of the role.
If you’d like to attend, please email inclusionpupilsupport@leics.gov.uk to request your Teams invitation.
About the Role
The Prevention Manager role will be to establish, promote and secure inclusive educational solutions with regards to children and young people who may otherwise be at risk of requiring provision other than their current setting.
To lead a team of Inclusion/SENA casework officers to deliver support to schools and to work with parents to ensure that children and young people can remain in mainstream schools. To play a key role in the work around alternative provisions and their suitable use for children and young people.
To build parental confidence in the Leicestershire provision by establishing an ‘inclusive climate’ whereby all agencies can demonstrate effective joint working to support children and young people. To provide challenge, where necessary, to educational settings, services for children and young people and other stakeholders where cases have been escalated, or relationships have become strained.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must respond to and provide evidence of the following essential criteria within your personal statement. This should be no more than 1,000 words.
- Qualifications plus experience or experience without a qualification, i.e. BTEC Higher or NVQ 4 (or equivalent) + post qualification experience. Or Meaningful, demonstrable and relevant knowledge and experience evidenced against the headings below, including significant experience of working within children and family services in a multi-agency environment.
- Experience of providing support, supervision and line management to a team and identifying the training needs of staff teams, developing and delivering input to support and develop staff.
- Experience in allocating work according to need, demand and priority to a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of working within a performance framework which focuses on the outcomes achieved through activities.
- Knowledge of Statutory responsibilities of the LA in relation to Children Missing Education, Pupils Missing Education, Children with Medical Needs and Elective Home Education.
- Understanding of the SEND Code of Practice, including Best Endeavours and Reasonable Adjustments.
- Able to work alongside colleagues from different agencies and services, with a focus on improving outcomes for children, and to work through any differences or conflicts between individuals or agencies.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to provide evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Frances Shelbourne, Inclusion Service Manager
Telephone: 0116 305 0716
Email: Frances.shelbourne@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement explaining how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when applying for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.
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