Attendance and Admin Officer
Katherine Warington School, Harpenden, AL5 5FH14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
23 September 2026 at 9am
Date listed
9 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full time equivalent salary
- £24,519.00 Annually (FTE) Role is paid £12.71 plus holiday pay. Full time equivalent £24,519
Attendance and Admin Officer job summary
We are currently seeking to recruit a hardworking and enthusiastic individual to join our administration team. The Business Attendance and Admin Officer will carry out a range of administrative tasks to support the SLT, Office Manager, Attendance Manager and staff to ensure the smooth running of the school office and departments.
This is a fixed term position to cover long term absence.
Main Areas of Responsibility
Attendance Administration
To provide general administrative support to the Attendance Manager by updating the daily registers with absence reports.
To update registers from voicemail messages, emails and telephone calls reporting students absent and to check for missing students before texting home so that the school meets its safeguarding needs.
To liaise with parents by text and phone if no information is received by parent / guardian regarding a student's absence.
To monitor and oversee the absence email inbox, forwarding requests for leave to the Headteacher and responding to parents where appropriate and inputting planned medical appointments and requests for leave absences in the registers
To check student's marks for every lesson, cross referencing with PL who locate missing students and ensure the registers are correct
To ensure all afternoon registration marks are recorded correctly and all students are accounted for.
To monitor the incoming and outgoing of students from school and to check the registers reflect this using Inventry.
To chase up teachers for unopened / incomplete registers
To assist with general admin / filing
English and Maths GCSE at A*-C (9-4) with knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Excel, and Google suite
Please look at the Job Description and Person Specification for a more detailed overview of the role and the requirements needed for it.
In return, you will have access to our staff benefits package including:
- Commitment to flexible working
- Free parking on site
- Free use of the school gym
- Free 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our in-house team of Mental Health First Aiders
- Buddy system for new staff
- Access to mentoring and CPD opportunities
- Regular staff socials
- Discounts with local businesses
- An opportunity to work with friendly and welcoming colleagues in a modern, aesthetically pleasing and forward-thinking environment.
At KWS, we understand the value of having a workforce that reflects and represents our multi-ethnic student body from an equality, diversity and inclusivity perspective. We therefore welcome and embrace applications from all backgrounds.
We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and visitors to share this commitment. This post will require a Full Enhanced, with List Checks, Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).
As part of our selection and appointment process, and in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, we are required to conduct online searches on all candidates in order to identify any incidents or concerns which are publicly available online. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such searches will be conducted as part of the selection and appointment process.
Applications will be shortlisted throughout the process, and we may interview and close the advert early if we are in a position to recruit a suitable candidate. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply early.
For more details about the school please visit our website and prospectus, links below
https://kwschool.co.uk/
https://kwschool.co.uk/prospectus/
Further information about the job
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.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Katherine Warington School
- Organisation type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1113 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Katherine Warington School is a new comprehensive, co‐educational and non‐denominational academic secondary school (opened September 19) with 750 students currently (180 in each of years 7, 8, 9 and 10 – these year groups are already oversubscribed). The school will add a
further 180 students in each subsequent year and then open a 250 strong Sixth Form. By 2025 we will have grown to our capacity of 1,150 students. The school was established through the partnership of the Harpenden Secondary Schools Trust, which includes the three outstanding
schools in Harpenden: Roundwood Park, St George’s and Sir John Lawes and additional partners: the University of Hertfordshire and Rothamsted Research Centre (a world leading non‐profit agricultural science research centre).
Further details about the school, including our prospectus and virtual tour, can be found on our website: www.kwschool.co.uk
School location
Similar jobs nearby
Admin Assistant (Learning Support)
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic School
Colney Heath Lane, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL4 0TT
Watford Grammar School for Boys
Rickmansworth Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD18 7JF
Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed