Attendance and Admissions Officer
Lipa School, Liverpool, Merseyside, L1 7BT4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
4 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday , term time plus 3 additional weeks (42 weeks)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,711 - £30,060 FTE (£25, 366.22 -£27,516.46)
Pay scale
- NJC 12-17
What skills and experience we're looking for
Main duties and responsibilities
- Follow the Trust and LIPA School Safeguarding policies and procedures and toensure the wellbeing of all children and students is of the highest priority.
- Contribute to the day-to-day running of the LIPA School and follow Trust andSchool policies and procedures.
- Contribute to the mission and vision of the Trust, and to actively support theimplementation of the Trust values.
- Be fully aware of and carry out all work in line with ChildProtection/Safeguarding Procedures.
- Take an active role in ensuring the realisation of the Trust’s development.
- Treat each student and each other as an individual with courtesy and respect.
- Have due regard for Health & Safety.
- Undertake any other duty deemed reasonable by the Headteachers.
- Provide cover at reception as and when needed.
- To ensure that the school’s recruitment targets are met.
- To handle all aspects of the school’s admissions process with a view tomaximising the number of enquiries, visits, registrations and joiners.
- To ensure that the admissions database is at all times up to date with theprerequisite information.
- To advise on strategies to promote the regular and punctual attendance of allpupils and assist with the implementation of agreed strategies.
- Update school records, analyse attendance data and provide reports to seniormanagers and other professionals.
- Disseminate information, both internally and externally, in a timely fashion, asrequired.
- Meet with school staff, pupils and parents to establish the reasons for nonattendance/poor punctuality and agree a plan with appropriate strategies andtimescales to tackle the issues.
- Make contact with the families in response to allocated referrals through homevisits and /or meetings in school, as directed.
- Prepare the appropriate paperwork and present information as required toenable the school to meet its obligations and statutory responsibilities.
- Liaise and work with external organisations as required.
- Keep accurate, clear and concise records of all interventions and consultationsand update information on the school’s attendance system.
- Manage your own workload in line with the school priorities.
- Maintain a good working knowledge of the statutory framework and anypolicies and procedures relating to school attendance, child employment, childprotection and special needs etc. in order to be able to offer informed advice toparents, school staff and others.
- Collect all necessary documentation relating to new joiners, make copies andfile in central student record files.
- To organise, prepare and present all admissions appeals to an independentpanel in a timely fashion.
- Report up-to-date student numbers to the senior leadership team, as required.
- To assist the senior leadership team with the induction of new pupils in all yeargroups, as required.
- To liaise with local authority and to exchange information in a timely fashion,as appropriate.
- To maintain, store and archive confidentially the hardcopy of student records.
- To work with the SENCO in the admission of students with Education, Healthand Care Plans/Statements of SEN.
- To manage in-year waiting lists, to monitor student numbers in each yeargroup, and to liaise with the senior leadership team for in-year admissions.
- To undertake other relevant tasks to support the office staff and overalladministration of the school.
- Perform any other reasonable duties as may from time to time arise at therequest of your Line Manager.
What the school offers its staff
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is committed to safeguarding children and promoting children’s welfare. This post is subject to all the relevant pre-employment checks set out in Keeping Children Safe in Education, including an enhanced DBS certificate with a barred-list check.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr-enquiries@lipaprimary.org
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Lipa School
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 16
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 544 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Lipa School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr-enquiries@lipaprimary.org
Based in the centre of Liverpool, our school, sponsored by The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, opened in September 2014.
We are an all-through school that provides children with a broad and balanced curriculum and have a particular focus on the creative and performing arts. We currently have 560 children from Reception to Year 9, growing to Year 10 from September 2024.
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