Attendance and Welfare Officer
Ashlawn School, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV22 5ETThis job expired on 19 February 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
19 February 2024 at 9am
Date listed
9 February 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours per week, Term-Time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- NJC12 to NJC17 Actual Salary: £22,589.00 to £24,608.00
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Attendance, Welfare and Educational Visits Officer will be an integral member of our support staff team, working with us to formulate and realising our ambitious strategic vision for a world-class education; together, we will continue to use Houlton’s heritage to build a global hub for communication, the arts and world-class engineering.
Your specific remit will be to work closely with the Vice Principal to actively monitor pupil attendance and welfare, as well as the contracts and administration of our local and international school visits. You will be a positive and proactive individual with prior experience school attendance. You will be aflexibleteam player, who responds well to the unique challenges and quickly changing environment of a brand new free school.
Experience of additional areas such as pupil welfare and the Warwickshire Attendance Service would be an advantage, but full training will be given. You will be a strong role model who rolls up their sleeves and gets stuck in with day-to-day operations. You actively seek out ways of improving your own performance and that of others, in order to ensure Attendance Monitoring and the wider organisation are highly efficient, effective and sustainable. At your core is a strong moral purpose to provide the best deal for all stakeholders, but especially for the children and young people whom we serve.
Main Roles/Responsibilities:
- To work with the VP and Pupil Experience Leaders to monitor and support pupil attendance, including the management of the staged letter process in accordance with the Attendance Policy;
- To support letters, contracts, payment schedules andParentPayin relation to Educational Visits and answer stakeholder enquiries in relation to our offer;
- To support the reception area as required, warmly welcoming visitors to the school and ensuring that the appropriate safeguarding protocols are followed;
- To answer the phone energetically and with enthusiasm, managing and directing calls effectively;
- To deal with difficult or challenging parents/carers, de-escalating and to ensuring that the school’s polices are followed at all times;
- To manage pupils enquiries and redirect them to Pupil Services if appropriate;
- To ensure the reception area is a bright, friendly and welcoming environment, maintaining professionalism at all times;
- To register and record pupils who arrive late;
- To contract parents/carers or wider stakeholders as directed;
- To use IT to produce documents as required for the school;
- To support the PA to the Principal in planning and preparing for whole school events;
- To actively contribute to the wider culture and ethos of the school;
- Any other duties deemed reasonable by the Principal.
Premises and Administration-To ensure that the team’s learning environment is safe, well maintained and attractive and in keeping with the School Health and Safety policy, reporting any concerns directly to the Site Services Officer.
Safeguarding-To be aware that all staff are responsible for the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of children.
The post holder will have a shared responsibility for the safeguarding of all children and young people. The post holder has an implicit duty to promote the welfare of all children and young people.
What the school offers its staff
We believe that the children and young people in our care deserve the very best staff who are highly effective at what they do. We want our employees to take great pride and satisfaction in their work. This means that one of our fundamental priorities is to ensure that all of our employees feel valued, knowing that the role they fulfil is vital to transforming the life chances of others. Put simply, we are loyal to our employees and receive their loyalty in return.
Please read the attached recruitment pack for more information about us.
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.
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About Ashlawn School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1588 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Ashlawn School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- careers@tlet.org.uk
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