

The Service and Team
Cornwall Virtual School (Awena) for Children in Care is seeking an additional Personal Education Plan (PEP) Coordinator to join our established PEP team. This role will work alongside an existing PEP Coordinator, with a particular focus on Pupil Premium Plus (PPP) administration and finance processes, alongside core PEP coordination duties.
This is a key role supporting schools, education providers and internal teams to ensure high‑quality PEPs, effective use of PPP funding, and strong educational outcomes for children and young people in care.
This role requires managing highly sensitive and confidential information relating to children in care, and the needs of this vulnerable cohort; adhering to data protection legislation is of paramount importance.
The Role
As one of two PEP Coordinators within the Virtual School, you will:
In addition, you will play a central role in the administration, monitoring and processing of Pupil Premium Plus (PPP) and Virtual School funding, including:
This role requires strong organisation, attention to detail and the ability to work confidently with finance systems and professionals.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern:
This is a 37 hour per week, fixed term contract for 12 months.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
We are looking for someone who:
Experience of Pupil Premium / Pupil Premium Plus, local authority finance systems or Virtual School work would be advantageous, but training will be provided.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What you’ll get in return:
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
· a competitive salary.
· a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
· a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
· A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
· Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Additional Information:
Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.
The full role profile is attached here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Sarah Hamshaw – sarah.hamshaw@cornwall.gov.uk
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
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We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options.
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.