Assistant Attendance Officer

The Sutton Academy, St Helens, Merseyside, WA9 5AU

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  3 August 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  21 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £22,608.00 - £24,097.00 Annually (Actual) Band E - NJC SCP 7-11 (FTE salary range £26,403 - £28,142)

Assistant Attendance Officer job summary

Responsible to the Assistant Principal and Attendance Officer, the Assistant Attendance Officer will be required:

• To build positive relationships, identifying barriers to attendance and working with families and colleagues to improve engagement with education.

• To work closely with the Inclusion Team, Heads of Year, SEND Department and Safeguarding Team to support vulnerable students, ensuring appropriate interventions are implemented to improve attendance, wellbeing and successful reintegration into school.

• To act as a key mentor for targeted students, delivering regular check-ins, attendance mentoring and agreed interventions.

• To support the successful reintegration of students following periods of absence, suspension or emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA), helping them to re-engage with learning and school life.

• To contribute to weekly Inclusion Panel meetings, as well as other Team Around the Family/Child meetings and other multi-agency meetings where appropriate.

Duties and Responsibilities

Attendance

• To assist the Attendance Officer in monitoring and challenging student absences from school.
• Follow up on student absences and lateness by telephone or other means, on a daily basis with guidance from relevant colleagues, making appropriate referrals.
• To use data systems to identify vulnerable groups and provide challenge and support as necessary issuing Pre-Notice to Improve documentation when appropriate.
• Be an active presence in the local school community through daily school bus pick ups and home visits to students and parents/carers as appropriate.
• To assist in the initiation and follow through of appropriate sanctions in liaison with the Attendance Officer including fixed penalty notices and court action.
• Liaise with outside agencies, parents/carers, social services, other schools and/or organisations in relation to information on student attendance and punctuality.
• To be responsible for communication with parents/carers via Arbor/Synergy and send out daily communications related to attendance matters.
• To support any new strategies employed by senior staff to help improve attendance.
• To support with the daily administration of attendance via Arbor. Ensuring student attendance records are accurate.
• To raise any safeguarding concerns via CPOMS.

Resources

To operate office equipment as required.

Other

To assist the attendance officer with any additional attendance tasks when not engaged in any of the attendance duties including administration, letter generation and filing

Any other duties commensurate with the post.

Academy Wide Responsibilities

To participate in all aspects of training and development.

To comply with the academies Health and Safety Policy and associated safe working procedures and guidelines.

To comply with the academies Comprehensive Equality Policy and ensure that it is implemented within the service area of the post.

To comply with the academies Data Protection Policy and Code of Practice within the service area of the post.

Undertaking other duties and responsibilities at the reasonable request of the Principal

This post is subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Disclosure Certificate.

The details contained within this job description reflect the content of the job at the date it was prepared. However, it is inevitable that over time, the nature of the job may change. Existing duties may no longer be required and other duties may be gained without changing the general nature of the post or the level of responsibility entailed. Consequently, the Academy will expect to revise this job description from time to time and will consult the post holder/s at the appropriate time.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

This post is subject to satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Disclosure Certificate. The Sutton Academy is committed to equal opportunities. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About The Sutton Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1441 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: The Sutton Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-sutton-academy

The Sutton Academy opened in September 2010 and is on a successful improvement journey having recently received an excellent ‘good’ judgement, the first in its history, and securing its best ever results in 2022.

We have a clear vision at the academy for students to achieve in all areas of academy life whilst nurturing their talents and passions. The academy ethos is built around the highest expectations of all and we see it as our duty to ensure that students have the best life chances possible; leaving the academy well prepared to take their place in the world. We strive for the best possible levels of achievement for all our students and are committed to providing the highest standards of teaching and learning. In return we have very clear expectations of student behaviour and commitment to learning.

Our students benefit from a modern learning environment with outstanding facilities. This helps to create a vibrant and positive learning community which is friendly, caring and purposeful.

We are aspirational for our students and see it as our duty to ensure they leave the academy as confident and responsible adults who are empowered to make real choices in their lives.

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