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Attendance Ambassador

The Deanes, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 2TD

This job expired on 14 March 2025 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  14 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  28 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £11,488.00 - £11,670.00 Annually (Actual) Essex LG Scale 3 Points 5-6

Attendance Ambassador job summary

Role: Attendance Ambassador
Contract: Permanent
Pay Scale: LG Scale 3 Points 5-6
Working hours: 20hours per week, term time time only plus Inset days.
Working Pattern: Monday - Friday 08.30 - 12.30
Actual annual salary: £11,488 - £11,670
Start Date: ASAP

About this role
The Attendance Ambassador will be required to carry out routine duties to ensure that daily attendance is correctly recorded . You will play a crucial role in supporting Senior Leaders, Heads of Year and the Pastoral Team to record and improve the attendance of students and make sure our safeguarding duties are fulfilled, through the provision of high quality administration.

Key responsibilities include:
- Ensuring complete and accurate records of absence requests and appointments are maintained.
- Following up on any missing registers with teaching staff.
- Notifying any vulnerable student absence through the appropriate channels.
- Liaising with pastoral staff regarding any concerns over student absence.
- Contacting parents/ carers regarding student absence in a caring and sensitive manner
-Input of Alternative Education attendance to the SIMs database
- Preparing and emailing letters to parents regarding student absence or lateness.
- Preparing and distributing emails, letters and other correspondence to tutors and tutees.
- Providing data and attendance reports for SLT & Heads of Year.

The successful applicant will have excellent written and oral communication skills, demonstrate a professional manner and understand the confidential and sensitive nature of this role. Attention to detail, the ability to prioritise and manage own workload are all key requirements for this role.

Please refer to the attached job description for more detail.

The Deanes is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects its entire staff to share this commitment. All postholders working in our schools will be considered to work in Regulated Activity and will be required to have an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure & BarringService (DBS). In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance all shortlisted candidates may be subject to online searches that may include social media. For further information please contact HR@seeat.org

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About The Deanes

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 526 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Deanes website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-deanes

The Deanes is part of the Challenger Multi-Academy Trust, which is in an exciting period of growth with schools in Bedfordshire and Essex. The Deanes is a small secondary school where each and every one of our students can feel happy, respected and known as an individual within our safe and accepting community. We aim to create a positive and respectful environment for all members of The Deanes, with consistently high expectations and standards. Our curriculum caters for individual strengths and needs, enabling every student to make outstanding progress and provide them with extensive opportunities for personal development.

The well-being of our staff is a high priority. All staff at The Deanes have access to high quality training to further develop their teaching practice. Staff can take advantage of free gym membership and we are fortunate to have an onsite children’s nursery which may be able to accommodate your childcare needs.

The Deanes is well situated in South East Essex, with good links to public transport. We are situated within ten minutes of Benfleet and Rayleigh Rail Stations, where a 45 minute train journey will take you into London. There is also ample car parking onsite.

The Deanes is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to DBS clearance.

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