Attendance Officer

Teaching Personnel are working with one of our partner secondary schoosl who are looking to appoint an Attendance Officer. 

Location: Kettering, Northamptonshire
Contract: Full-Time
Salary: £24,000 - £26,000
Start Date: September 2024

Job Role - To be responsible for leading in securing high standards of student attendance and punctuality

Specific Responsibilities
To understand and be fully committed to the duties and responsibilities in relation to child protection and safeguarding young people

Attendance and Punctuality
• To promote the importance of good attendance with staff, students and their parents and carers;
• To implement the attendance procedures to improve attendance particularly for disadvantaged and SEND students;
• To mentor persistent absentees to improve their attendance, liaising with key staff as appropriate;
• To support the chasing of registers and coding of absences as required;
• To track the attendance of key students;
• To communicate home and at times conduct home visits in order to engage hard to reach families so that attendance can be improved;
• To support the reintegration of students with low attendance into school and lessons;
• To initiate attendance actions, including leading on the implementation and monitoring of Attendance Support Plans (ASP) and Parenting Contract Meetings (PCM) where student attendance falls below expectations;
• To monitor lateness and implement the relevant sanctions and initiate intervention for persistent lateness;
• To support with the attendance of students at examinations and for key NEA deadlines.

Other General Duties and Responsibilities
To contribute to the following general duties, some of which will be on rotation and shared with the Student Support Team: Behaviour:
• To be present at the start of the day on gate duty and to monitor the late gate
• Where possible to support the Student Services Team with punctuality or attendance matters
• To be a Safeguarding Officer

If you want to find out more about this role and believe you posess the skills to be a great Attendance Officer then apply with your CV and we will be in touch.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
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