Anyone do an education based WFH role and if so, what is it?

[RudsyFarmer]

I’m looking to retrain. Love my education setting but dislike the politics. I’m not a teacher so I can’t tutor. Ideally I’d love a WFH role and am wondering about the possibilities 🤔

You don't need to be a teacher to tutor.

Look at education outreach services in your area. For example Virtual Schools monitor and track the education of child in care, they have numerous job roles.

Data manager for a school.

I'm the only person in my school who is fully remote but tbf they recognised its not actually necessary for me to be physically on site and it gives them a wider pool of people to recruit from.

It is unusual, but a number of data colleagues in other schools/trust head offices now are at least hybrid. My previous role was hybrid.

Brilliant. Thank you 💐💐

I know people who work creating educational materials eg. for Twinkl

I work for my local council visiting and advising home educated families. You don't have to be a teacher. I work from home and manage my own diary although I obviously also do a lot of outreach (visiting families basically). And it's term time only. I love it.

@Statsinyoureyes as a former home educator myself this is my dream job, I think! May I ask how you got into it/what the requirements were?

VS Head here.

You need in-depth knowledge of SEN, including attachment disorder and trauma and the Code of Practice/EHCP process. Belonging Regs and how Plans transfer from one LA to the next. Attainment data for all key stages, post-16 pathways, evidence-based interventions which are particularly strong for children with a social worker. Understanding of social care systems and terms such as S47, S20 etc. It’s challenging conversations with schools and social workers and carers on a daily basis and people expecting you to be able to wave a magic wand and get a 15 year old who’s just come into care into education when he’s not attended school for 6 years.

It’s a great job and usually hybrid. But it’s no easier than teaching (I taught for 18 years before moving into this role) and it’s a bit kid complex than “monitoring and tracking”. And there’s still Ofsted inspections every 3 years, or more often if your LA is RI or Inadequate.

@HBGKC have a look at elective home education support officer roles in your area, as I'm not sure if the requirements are always the same. I found this as an example from Staffordshire, but in my LA there is no requirement to have a qualification in education:

Elective Home Education Officer https://g.co/kgs/t1mFW3o

I'm happy to answer any questions!

Thanks @Statsinyoureyes, much appreciated.

@HBGKC I would have thought that with your home ed experience you'd be a very desirable candidate. One of my colleagues is the same.

I'd hope so... I'm definitely going to keep my eye out at my local authority.

was your job advertised as a term time job when you had first applied?

I'm a SEND officer at my local authority (EHCP stuff) and work from home the majority of the time.

Sorry only just saw this. Yes it was