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Attendance Administrator & Family Support Worker

Bluecoat Trent Academy, Nottingham, NG5 1AJ

This job expired on 28 April 2025 – see similar jobs

Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
28 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
7 April 2025

Job details

Job role: Administration, HR, data and finance
Pastoral, health and welfare
Other support roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Full time: Full Time - TTO + 2
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: From £31,067 - £34,314 per annum. (FTE)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Attendance Administration

Be responsible for the implementation, organisation and monitoring of all student attendance and punctuality matters in order that targets are met;
Be responsible for a response system for failing of poor attendance and punctuality including the development of first day contact procedures for absent students. Develop innovative and new ways of encouraging families to make attendance and punctuality at the Academy a top priority.
Be responsible for challenging unauthorised absence including the responsibility for home visits to investigate and challenge non-attendance.
Develop and maintain effective and productive working relationships with all relevant agencies in relation to attendance, including family support workers, Elective Home Education Team (EHE) and Children Missing Education Team (CME) (within Nottingham LA) in order to work collaboratively together.
Be responsible for referrals to the Educational Welfare Service (EWS) on all formal non-attendance procedures.
Work with appropriate staff to develop individual action plans to improve attendance/punctuality with individual students when their attendance/punctuality gives cause for concern.
Be responsible for enquiries relating to attendance and punctuality by students, parents/carers and staff.
Record, analyse and prepare documents for court procedures when the Academy has decided to take action against poor attendance and/or punctuality, attend and give evidence where necessary.
Develop specialist knowledge of attendance and punctuality issues and best practice and provide advice and guidance to the SLT on matters relating to attendance and punctuality.
Assist with student welfare duties such as dealing with sick students, liaising with parents/carers and relevant staff.

Targeted support for vulnerable families

Ensure accurate record keeping for personal student safeguarding files, updating where necessary.

Support staff by taking some responsibility for safeguarding and targeted support, by working with individual students and their families to ensure improved levels of engagement, wellbeing and positive outcomes at school
Undertake assessments and take on a caseload of targeted students and families, meeting with them regularly in school or at home, setting appropriate targets for them and then monitoring progress towards targets
Direct students and families to other agencies who can offer support
Liaise with other members of staff as appropriate, to ensure that students’ needs and targets are clear amongst both teaching and support staff
Recommend the commencement and conclusion of periods of support for students and their families, and keep an accurate record of which students receive which support, so that the maximum number of students are able to benefit from the additional support and so that the Academy is able to make a judgement about the positive impact of the work
Preparation of information for Multi Agency meetings and representing the Academy at such meetings where appropriate.
By carrying out all of the above responsibilities, contribute to an overall improvement in the attitudes to learning and academic progress amongst the students and families receiving the support.
Support referral processes where needed
Establish and maintain relationships with individual pupils and groups
Identify and facilitate appropriate workshops/courses for individual or groups of parents, including recognised parenting program’s

Liaise with outside agencies in order to support individual children and their families

What the school offers its staff

Archway benefits to include shopping discounts and competitions
A free and confidential employee assistance programme offering counselling and advice
Generous pension scheme
Access to discounted travel schemes
Cycle to work scheme
Comprehensive training and support
Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
Eye care voucher scheme
Free flu vaccine
Access to e-learning and development

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to the satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check, Barred List check, the receipt of satisfactory references, online searches and any other statutory checks that are required for the post. We are an equal opportunities employer.

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About Bluecoat Trent Academy

School type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
Education phase: Secondary
School size: 654 pupils enrolled
Age range: 11 to 16
Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
School website: Bluecoat Trent Academy website
Email address: hr@archwaytrust.co.uk
Phone number: 01159007245
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Bluecoat Trent Academy

The Bluecoat Trent Academy (BTA) opened its doors in September 2021 with the founding cohort of Year 7 pupils. BTA is an 11-16, non-faith school. For the first year BTA accommodates six forms of entry, growing to eight forms in subsequent years.

The new build for the academy will be built on the former site of Clarendon College, on the edge of Forest Fields, close to Mapperley Park. Whilst the new academy is being constructed BTA will, for the first three years, be based in its own building on the site of Bluecoat Aspley Academy on Aspley Lane. The school will be underpinned by the ethos of all the Archway academies whilst establishing its own unique vision and values.