Position Overview
Key responsibilities
The postholder will be responsible for overseeing the day to day management of a professional in-year admissions and pupil tracking service within the context of robust safeguarding and quality assurance procedures, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and agreed service specification.
The primary functions of the post are to:
Discharge the local authority‘s statutory duties and responsibilities in relation to the allocation of school places outside the normal admission round, both at primary and secondary phases, ensuring schools maintain waiting lists in strict criteria order and offer places in accordance with the School Admissions Code and supporting legislation
Oversee and manage day to day operations relating to in-year admissions, ensuring every child is tracked from application to placement, including liaising with Islington and out of borough schools to ensure unplaced children are offered a school place as quickly as possibl...