Turnaround Education, Training & Employment (ETE) Officer

What will you be doing?

Role Responsibility

In Kent, our approach to the ‘Turnaround’ programme is to enhance our Adolescent Early Help offer by providing specialist education, training, and employment support, to maximise attendance, engagement, and attainment of a target group of children.

We’re looking to recruit an Education, Training and Employment (ETE) Officer for our Turnaround team. Posts are funded by the Ministry of Justice until the end of March 2029. ETE Officers are required for the following areas; Kent South 1 covering Dover, Folkestone and Hythe, Kent South 2 covering Ashford and Canterbury, and East Kent covering Thanet and Canterbury and will be aligned to, and working alongside, the Adolescent Early Help unit in that area, and line managed by the Unit Lead. Full time and part time (3 or 4 days per week) opportunities are available. We will be exhausting our redeployment pool first, followed by any external applicants.

We’re looking for motivated and skilled people with a mixture of excellent knowledge of the education, training, and employment landscape (including legislation and practice in relation to part-time tables, inclusion, and attendance), with the enthusiasm and resilience to offer excellent hands-on, practical support directly to children and their families.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Applications for the roles will close on the 24/03/2026.

Interviews are to be held on 31/03/2026.

Further information about the national Turnaround programme is available online.

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Contact Details

If you require any additional information, please contact Helen Burton at helen.burton@kent.gov.uk.

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.