Attendance and Educational Improvement Officer
Richard Lander School, Truro, Cornwall, TR3 6LT12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
23 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
9 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week Monday to Friday term time plus inset
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26597 - £31869FTE
Pay scale
- Cornwall Council Grade 2
What skills and experience we're looking for
An opportunity has arisen for the appointment of an Attendance and Educational Improvement Officer at Richard Lander School. The main purpose of this role is 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/carers are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities. This will involve preparatory work for any prosecution of persistent absence. To make unsupervised contact with families in their own homes and elsewhere to assess the reasons impacting on the attendance of individual students, facilitating their return to access to regular full time education provision. To establish and develop a professional service to support the school in raising attendance, investigating persistent absences and improving punctuality.
Our school is welcoming and supportive, with a strong value placed on ‘being the best you can be’ and staff and students on a mission to achieve great outcomes for all our students.
We hope after reading our details and person specification that you will want to join our team.
This position is full time and permanent and is available as soon as possible.
What the school offers its staff
We drive to ensure that everyone can ‘Be the best that they can be’ and this includes both staff and students. Our standards are high and our aim is for all children to achieve their full potential, both academically and socially.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding, promoting the welfare of children and to ensuring a culture of valuing diversity and ensuring equality of opportunities.
Successful applicants must be suitable to work with children and will need to undertake the following before commencing employment:
Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Certificate with barred list information
Receipt of two satisfactory employer references one of which must be from your current or most recent employer
Satisfactory verification of relevant qualifications
Satisfactory health check
All new employees will be required to undertake mandatory training required by the school.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Richard Lander School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1525 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Richard Lander School website
- Email address
- vharrison@richardlander.cornwall.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01872 273750
Richard Lander School is a popular school, over subscribed in several year groups. We have 1495 students on roll and this number is growing.
Mr Steve Mulcahy, is our Headteacher and has been since 2008. The building and grounds are part of a PFI contract and are maintained to a very high standard.
We have high standards of our students and the staff who work with them. We have an ARB on site which is very much part of our school. We drive to ensure that everyone can 'be the best that they can be' and this includes both staff and students. Our standards are high and our aim is for all children to achieve their full potential, both academically and socially.
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