Attendance and Family Liaison Officer
Parkside School, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD13 5AD41 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Ideally September 2026 - start of the new academic year
Closing date
31 August 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
21 July 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £34,434.00 Annually (FTE) SO1 SCP 23–25, 37 hours per week | Term time plus 5 days - £34,434 FTE (£30,026.45 Actual)
Attendance and Family Liaison Officer job summary
Are you a proactive and compassionate professional who is passionate about breaking down barriers to education? Parkside School is seeking a dedicated colleague to join us in the crucial role of Attendance and Family Liaison Officer.
As the school’s Attendance Champion, you will work directly with students, families, senior leaders and multi-agency partners to improve and maintain high attendance levels across the academy. You will build strong relationships between home and school, identify barriers to attendance and deliver targeted interventions to ensure every student gains the maximum life chances from their education. From undertaking home visits and welfare checks to managing statutory processes and analysing attendance data, your work will directly transform student engagement.
In addition, you will act as a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) supporting the work of our wider safeguarding team.
Key Responsibilities
Attendance Champion & Strategy: Drive school attendance strategies, analyse data to identify trends/concerns, benchmark performance and develop tailored attendance action plans for individual students and vulnerable groups.
Family Liaison & Home Visits: Build strong, trust based relationships with parents and carers; plan and conduct home visits, welfare checks and first day contact calls for absent students.
Statutory Action & Agency Liaison: Lead on statutory processes regarding non-attendance and education welfare (including penalty notices, CME/EHE protocols with the LA) and collaborate with integrated children's services.
Safeguarding & Coaching: Serve as a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) contributing to child protection procedures, case conferences and multi-agency meetings, while acting as a coach for a small group of students.
Register & Data Management: Ensure daily registers and returns (including school census) are accurate using MIS systems (Arbor/CPOMS), maintaining detailed records of communications and interventions.
School & Operational Support: Support transition processes with feeder schools, assist with student supervision and undertake training (including minibus test/First Aid) as required.
Who We Are Looking For
Experience: Working in a school or educational setting with young people to improve attendance, identifying and delivering targeted interventions and working directly with families.
Skills & Knowledge: Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills; ability to analyse data, conduct reports and use IT packages (Excel/Sheets, MIS databases) independently; solid understanding of barriers to attendance, conflict resolution and statutory safeguarding guidance.
Qualifications & Training: GCSE English and Maths at Grade C/4 or above (or equivalent eg. Adult Literacy/Numeracy at level 2)
Personal Attributes: High expectations of self and professional standards, strong drive and integrity, excellent organisational skills, ability to maintain strict confidentiality and willingness/ability to travel for home visits.
To review the full Job Description and Person Specification, please see attached supporting documents.
Why Join Parkside School?
At Parkside, we believe in making a difference. You will be part of a supportive team that values professional development and contributes to an environment where every pupil has an equal opportunity to thrive. It is a very exciting time to join Parkside School, a part of Wellspring Academy Trust. Our school is welcoming and vibrant, with students who thrive on positive relationships and staff who are committed to securing the best possible outcomes for them. We are on an exciting journey reshaping Parkside School to be a school that students, staff, and the community are proud of.
As an employee you will benefit from a range of employee perks which include Staff Offers and Discounts, a free will writing service, Community First Credit Union, Cycle to Work schemes and People Celebration Schemes.
How to Apply
Please apply by completing our online application form
We will be interviewing candidates continuously throughout July & August as applications are received, so early applications are highly encouraged!
Ideal start date is September 2026
If you prefer to have a conversation about the role please contact Hannah Kiernan, Recruitment Manager at hkiernan@wellspringacademies.org.uk
We reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the stated closing date.
The School has adopted the principles of Safer Recruitment and will safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to do the same. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced criminal records check via the Disclosure and Barring Service. Parkside School is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. As this role involves working with children in regulated activity, please note that it is an offence to apply for the role if barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.
References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to interview. Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.
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 Parkside School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1061 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Parkside School website
Parkside School and locality
We want all of our schools to make a positive contribution to the community that they are embedded within. This impact should be meaningful, considerable and lasting.
We want the young people of Parkside school to have every available opportunity to develop into well-rounded citizens who are equipped to make a positive contribution and who know how to keep themselves safe. We want students to have passionate hopes for their future; hopes that they can articulate, believe in and make real. We want to develop a nurturing environment that develops students who can empathise, critique, protect, love, inspire, make, design, explore and understand; students who are willing to try things they have never tried before, do things they have never done before and who are willing to risk reimagining themselves as the very best version of what they can become.
Located in the picturesque village of Cullingworth, Parkside School is surrounded by rolling hills and dramatic countryside.
The village, three miles south of Keighley and seven miles west of central Bradford, is not only popular with commuters but also with tourists, walkers and cyclists who revel in some of the country’s most glorious scenery.
The locality is steeped in history; the Brontë Parsonage Museum and its famous literary collections lie less than five miles east.
Also on the doorstep is the Saltaire World Heritage Site; a Victorian model village that is home to Salts Mill, which itself boasts striking architecture, eateries and shopping.
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