Attendance & Admissions Officer

Nightingale Community Academy, London, SW17 7DF

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  to be confirmed

• Closing date

  3 August 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  17 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 36 Hours, 44.65 Weeks (Term Time)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Inner London SC4/SC5 Point 18 (FTE £30,985) to Point 25.2 (FTE £35,812) Actual salary £26,532.43 to £30,665.78 depending on qualifications and experience.

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking a motivated and resilient Attendance & Admissions Officer who shares our commitment to supporting every learner’s journey. This vital role contributes to raising achievement by improving attendance and punctuality, supporting admissions, and working with families to overcome barriers to learning. You’ll play a key role in safeguarding, tracking persistent absence, and promoting a positive attendance culture across the school.

Key Responsibilities:

• To contribute to raising achievement by improving school attendance.
• To provide a specialist service to assist the school in meeting their obligations and targets in relation to school attendance, especially persistent absence.

To promote positive attitudes by students and families towards education and to ensure that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities

What the school offers its staff

Rewards & Benefits:

· Enhanced parental leave schemes

· Cycle to work scheme

· Season ticket loans

· Employee referral scheme

· Discounted gym membership subscription including digital fitness

· Comprehensive training and development

· Access to counselling advice and support via Health Assured

· Commitment to wellbeing supported by our occupational health service and mental-health first aiders

· Scope for career progression across eight college centres, 14 academy schools and shared services team

· Pension scheme - the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or Teachers Pension Scheme (TPS) both of which have life cover and financial protection for your family

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

Nightingale Community Academy and Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Appointments made will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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Attendance Admissions Officer Job Description & Person specification.pdf - 158 KB (opens in new tab)

About Nightingale Community Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 19
• School size: 137 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Nightingale Community Academy website
• Email address: info@nightingaleca.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/nightingale-community-academy

Nightingale Community Academy is a school for boys aged between 5 and 19 who have an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) or Statement of SEN for social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs.

Some learners also have Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), or other learning difficulties. At Nightingale Community Academy we are committed to raising the expectations of our learner group, removing barriers to learning and delivering attainment at the highest level.

“Since the start of the school in September 2016, the principal and his leadership team have shown a tireless determination to improve the education it offers. Their ‘no excuses’ approach means that nothing other than the highest quality of education is good enough”. (Ofsted February 2019) – (The full Ofsted Report, is now available on our website).

Nightingale Community Academy is committed to a multi-disciplinary approach to meeting learners’ needs, and promotes high quality professional development for all staff.

Arranging a visit to Nightingale Community Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email info@nightingaleca.org.

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