Attendance and Mentoring Lead
Billesley Primary School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B13 0ES28 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36.5 hours, term time only (39 weeks)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 3 P9-22, Salary Range: £23,194.00 - £29,439.
What skills and experience we're looking for
Join our team
We are a large, vibrant and inclusive primary school committed to ensuring every child is supported to thrive, attend regularly and achieve excellence.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, highly organised, and compassionate Attendance and Mentoring Lead to join our dedicated pastoral team. This exciting opportunity is ideal for a professional who understands the key drivers of excellent school attendance, demonstrates a genuine passion for nurturing pupils’ social and emotional development and effectively leverages parental engagement to achieve positive outcomes.
The successful candidate will play a key role in building positive relationships with pupils, families and teaching staff, identifying barriers to attendance, and leading the provision of effective mentoring and pastoral support.
We are seeking someone who is:
- Passionate about improving outcomes for children and families.
- Warm, approachable and able to build strong professional relationships.
- Confident working with children and families in complex circumstances
- Highly organised, resilient and able to manage competing priorities.
- Confident communicating with parents and carers, including when conversations can be challenging.
- Competent in using data to identify concerns and measure improvement.
- Proactive, solution-focused and able to work independently.
- A strong team player who understands the importance of effective pastoral and multi-agency working.
- Committed to safeguarding, inclusion and equality of opportunity
You will:
- Promote a positive culture of attendance throughout the school.
- Lead on the daily systems and processes, monitoring and promotion of pupil attendance and mentoring
- Analyse attendance data to identify patterns, trends and pupils requiring additional support.
- Work closely with school leaders, teachers, families and external agencies to improve attendance.
- Develop positive, trusting relationships with pupils and families and provide targeted mentoring; and lead, develop and quality assure other mentors
- Communicate sensitively, confidently and collaboratively with parents, carers and staff regarding attendance concerns and mentoring requirements
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date and confidential records.
Main Responsibilities:
- Deliver a vision for school attendance through the school’s new ARC strategy (Accountability, Relationships, Communication).
- Lead robust attendance initiatives, monitor pupil data and collaborate with families and local agencies to improve attendance and reduce persistent absence.
- Build strong, trusting relationships with parents and carers to identify and address attendance concerns early.
- Lead and deliver targeted social, emotional and behavioural support to pupils through one-to-one and group mentoring, including quality assuring of wider mentoring provision.
- Maintain accurate records and track the outcomes of mentoring interventions to demonstrate positive progress.
- Work closely with the wider Pastoral Team, teaching staff and the Senior Leadership Team to support pupils experiencing challenges.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
- High-level support and professional development.
- Friendly and welcoming staff.
- Supportive parents and Governors.
- Enthusiastic, confident children.
- A support package to become a fully qualified teacher.
- Support to train as a teacher.
- Free childcare for ages 3 and over, plus after-school care, is available in discussion with the school.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Billesley Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers are therefore expected to behave in such a way that supports this commitment.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the following satisfactory pre-employment checks:
Right to work in the UK
Health
Identity
Relevant work qualifications
Barred List Check
Disclosure & Barring Service Check (for all staff and volunteers)
References
S128 Check (where relevant)
Childcare Disqualification Declaration Check
Mandatory Training
Child Protection Level 1
Prevention of Radicalisation
FGM
Keeping Children Safe in Education
E-Safety
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Billesley Primary School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 699 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- s.hudson@billesleyschool.co.uk
Our vision is to inspire our children to succeed, create excitement for learning, and achieve excellence. We have a strong belief in the importance of determination, perseverance, teamwork and trust, and we are committed to challenging inequality in any form through an inclusive ethos.
We are committed to making each child's experience at school unique and personalise everything we do to best meet the needs of our children and community. This means that our priority is to ensure the highest possible standards of teaching, learning and achievement across the school.
Our aim is to make learning enjoyable, allowing every individual to achieve their best and to nurture their talents, as well as giving them safety, security and the skills they will need to be active, responsible citizens and happy, caring adults in the future.
The school is at the heart of our local community. We work in close partnership with local organisations, creative practitioners and local residents to ensure that our children get the highest quality education so that they continue to enjoy learning throughout their lives.
The school is committed to school improvement within the Elliot Foundation Multi-Academy Trust and the EEF Research School Network. Therefore, there may be opportunities to work alongside teachers in other schools within the Trust and across the wider educational system.
Arranging a visit to Billesley Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email s.hudson@billesleyschool.co.uk.
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