Attendance and Attendance Officer

Newman School, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 3LX

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  13 October 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  1 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £27,274.00 - £28,153.00 Annually (FTE) TTO plus 5 training days - actual salary £23,459 - £23,442

Attendance and Attendance Officer job summary

We are looking for a proactive, organised and approachable Attendance Officer to join our school team. This is an important role with a direct impact on pupils’ education: you will help ensure that every child attends regularly, arrives on time and receives the support they need to overcome barriers to attendance.

About the role

Monitor daily attendance and punctuality, accurately maintaining attendance records and following up unexplained absence.

Build positive, respectful relationships with pupils and families, offering practical support and challenge where needed.

Identify attendance patterns and concerns, prepare reports and support timely interventions.

Work closely with pastoral and safeguarding colleagues, senior leaders and external agencies.

Support attendance meetings, home visits and formal processes in line with school policy and statutory guidance.

Promote a whole-school culture in which excellent attendance is understood, encouraged and celebrated.

About you

You will have excellent communication, organisation and record-keeping skills, with the confidence to hold sensitive and sometimes challenging conversations professionally. You will be able to analyse information, manage competing priorities and work calmly and discreetly. Experience in a school, attendance, pastoral, safeguarding or family-support role would be an advantage, but we also welcome applicants with relevant transferable skills.

What we offer

You will join a welcoming and supportive team committed to improving outcomes for children and families. We offer a thorough induction, relevant professional development, access to wellbeing support.

The school is a split site (Dinnington and Whiston), and although the role will be based primarily at one site, there is the expectation the role may work between the sites when needed.

The trust reserves the right to close the advert early if enough applications have been received

Our Multi Academy Trust is a group of inspirational and aspirational mainstream and specialist schools in Yorkshire whose main objective is to ensure that all pupils make exceptional progress through the development of outstanding staff.

Venn Academy Trust is committed to achieving fairness and equality in employment and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Our Trust is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment.

An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants

Online searches will be carried out as part of Venn Academy Trust’s recruitment due diligence for all shortlisted candidates, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

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

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.

About Newman School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 2 to 19
• Size: 185 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Newman School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/newman-school-rotherham

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