Early Intervention Service Assistant Manager

Grade I scp 31 £43,149 to scp 35 £47,665, essential car user allowance up to £963pa
Contract: permanent
Hours: 37 per week
Essential requirement: full driving licence, DBS
Essential qualification: educated to degree standard
Interview date: 20 October 2026
For further information about this role, contact: Jenny.arif@bolton.gov.uk

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The Role

Bolton Council is seeking an experienced, motivated and dynamic professional to join our Children's Services team as an Early Intervention Service Assistant Manager.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role in promoting positive outcomes for children and young people through the effective management and delivery of attendance and inclusion services. Working closely with the Service Manager, you will help lead the Early Intervention Service, championing strategies that improve school attendance, reduce barriers to education and safeguard vulnerable children.
You will support the strategic and operational leadership of the Early Intervention Service, deputising for the Service Manager where required and providing direct management and supervision to staff, including the Designated Children Missing Education Officer.

You will work collaboratively with schools, Headteachers, multi-agency partners and Council services to ensure appropriate interventions are in place to improve attendance and educational outcomes. You will also play a key role in ensuring the Council fulfils its statutory duties relating to Children Missing Education (CME), school attendance and pupil registration regulations.

About You

You will be a confident leader with a strong understanding of attendance legislation and a passion for improving outcomes for children and young people.

With a detailed understanding of relevant legislation relating to school attendance and education, you will be able to analyse and evaluate data to report findings clearly and concisely, to ensure that resources are allocated appropriately.

You will use your excellent communication skills to liaise confidently with senior officers and multi-agency partners.

Working collaboratively with a range of people and agencies, you will support sustained improvement to the Early Intervention Service.

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

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Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance - this post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in 2013). Employment offers are conditional subject to satisfactory clearances. For roles where a criminal records check from the DBS is required, this includes satisfactory clearance of this check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily bar an individual from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of an individual’s offence/s. Information provided by you or the DBS will be dealt with in a confidential manner and in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here. Bolton Council’s policy on the Employment of Ex-Offenders is available here.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk

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