Attendance Admin Assistant

Lift Firth Park, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S5 0SD

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  5 October 2026 at 8:17am

• Date listed

  21 September 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £21933 - £22629 per annum

Attendance Admin Assistant job summary

Are you an experienced administrator looking for a role where your work genuinely makes a difference every single day?

Lift Firth Park is looking for anAttendance Admin Assistant to join our driven and supportive team on a term time basis. Excellent attendance is the foundation of student success, meaning this is far more than an admin job, you will play a vital role in removing barriers to education, improving student outcomes, and supporting families. Working within a culture that deeply values belonging and rapid progress, you will enjoy a dynamic, rewarding daily routine alongside colleagues who care about making an impact.

About the role

In this varied role, you will act as a core component of our administration team with a primary focus on supporting our Attendance Team. Excellent attendance is fundamental to student success, and you will help us track, monitor, and support student engagement, maintaining accurate records, supporting school events, and welcoming visitors at reception.

Key responsibilities

• Attendance & Student Data Support: Assist the Attendance Team by handling daily attendance enquiries, updating student records accurately, compiling tracking reports for the Senior Leadership Team, and liaising with parents and carers regarding student absence.
• General Administration: Draft and distribute internal and external communications (including newsletters and announcements), monitor the school email inbox, and assist with school admissions, enrolment, and appeals processes.
• Safeguarding & Standards: Uphold school safeguarding policies, maintain strict confidentiality, and adhere to administrative procedures at all times.

What we would like to see

• Strong Administrative Skills: Previous administrative experience, ideally within an educational setting, with excellent organisational skills and high attention to detail.
• Empathetic Communication: A warm, approachable tone with the ability to build positive relationships with parents, carers, staff, and pupils-especially when discussing sensitive attendance matters.
• Technical Proficiency: Confidence using administrative software, spreadsheets, and student database management systems (MIS).
• Adaptability & Initiative: The ability to balance time-sensitive attendance priorities alongside general reception duties and administrative requests.
• Commitment to Inclusion & Safeguarding: An unswerving commitment to pupil welfare, confidentiality, and our mission to help every child flourish.
• Understanding of UK School Attendance Guidance: Practical knowledge of statutory DfE attendance guidance (Working together to improve school attendance), attendance coding, persistent absence thresholds, and the vital link between school attendance and pupil safeguarding.
• Attendance System & Data Experience: Familiarity with recording, monitoring, and reporting student attendance data using school management information systems (such as Management Information Systems / MIS).
• UK Right to Work: This post does not meet the salary or skill threshold required for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship, so candidates must already possess the right to work in the UK.

Does this sound like you? If so, apply today!

About the school

Lift Firth Park is a vibrant, mixed secondary school for students aged 11-16. Located in Shiregreen, Sheffield, we serve around 1,200 pupils and reflect a richly diverse community, with more than a third of students speaking English as an additional language. Our school is currently undergoing an exciting period of transformational change, and we are already seeing its positive impact-in the classroom, across the curriculum and throughout our culture. This is an excellent time to join our team. We are looking for individuals who share our dedication to inclusive, aspirational education and who are excited to contribute to our renewed vision and ambitious future.

Who is Lift Schools?

Lift Schools is made up of 62 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 35,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives - and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.

How we support you

We want you to feel supported, valued and able to grow throughout your career with Lift Schools. From high-quality professional development and career progression to wellbeing support and opportunities to connect and collaborate across our network, we invest in you so you can do your best work.

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

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

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 Lift Firth Park

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1115 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Lift Firth Park website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/firth-park-academy

Lift Firth Park is a school with a strong team spirit, high expectations and driving ambition which have led to notable improvements. We are a fully inclusive school with a distinctively inclusive ethos and have the highest aspirations for and expectations of our students.

We continue to work tirelessly to ensure our examination results continue to improve, that students continue to feel happy, safe and cared for, one of our key aims is that everybody deserves the chance to fly; and that the students are challenged and developed academically by the stimulating and rewarding education they receive.

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