Attendance and Family Support Worker
Waterside Academy, Liverpool, Merseyside, L30 2QQ27 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
15 August 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 July 2025
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
- £27,711.00 - £31,067.00 Annually (FTE) Actual pro rata term time only salary £24,047
Attendance and Family Support Worker job summary
➢ To be the “First day response” contact for all on and offsite students not in and for all persistent absentees (< 90% attendance). Sharing information with relevant staff using the Academy’s communication systems.
➢ Regularly conduct home visits to facilitate the pupils return to regular full-time education.
➢ Undertake safeguarding checks as directed by the Deputy Headteacher and Headteacher.
➢ To promote a positive attitude towards education and ensure parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities.
➢ To establish the reason for non-attendance, make assessments and agree a plan for facilitating a return to school using appropriate strategies within specified timescales.
➢ To arrange, chair and document Attendance Support Plan meetings.
➢ To significantly reduce persistent absence.
➢ To ensure that every child identified as persistently absent has a pastoral support plan that clearly details the actions, targets and review dates to be achieved in reducing absence within an agreed timescale.
➢ To provide information to parents/carers of children who are persistently absent about the impact on their development and outcomes.
➢ To use and contribute to the management information system (MIS) to ensure effective monitoring, evaluation and review of attendance data.
➢ To meet with the Local Authority Welfare Officer as appropriate and refer students who are not meeting attendance targets. Liaising with relevant parties to support students in successfully improving their attendance.
➢ To set up and prepare documentation for attendance panels with parents and relevant staff, regarding student absence and punctuality as set out in the Academy’s attendance policy.
➢ To acquire and maintain a working knowledge of the statutory framework relating to school attendance, child employment, child protection and special needs in order to be able to offer informed advice to parents, Trust staff, governors and others.
➢ To support the pastoral team in all aspects and where necessary.
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 Waterside Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- School size
- 87 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Waterside Academy website
School location
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