Attendance & Community Officer
Lees Brook Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 4QX14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
5 December 2025 at 9am
Date listed
21 November 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
- £32061 - £35412
What skills and experience we're looking for
EXPERIENCE
Previous experience of
working with challenging and complex students within an educational setting.
Experience of working
within and managing a multi-disciplinary team
Negotiating with other
professionals and external agencies
Previous working
knowledge of SIMS.net or similar database
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Effective use of
specialist ICT packages
Devise policy/practices
in specialist areas of work
Develops responsive
client focused services, operates professionally and with sensitivity.
Promotes cooperation by
working with internal and external partners to plan, develop and deliver best
practice.
Is self-aware, acts
proactively, accepts personal responsibility and communicates effectively.
Excellent
organisational skills with a willingness to respond positively to changing
circumstances.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Confident and independents, able to work using own initiative.
Assertive, enthusiastic, motivated and committed
Ability to work as part of a team understanding Academy roles
and responsibilities and your own position within these.
Builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues
and stakeholders in a fair and equitable manner.
Commitment to equal opportunities
Willingness to work within the Christian framework of the
Trust
Suitability to work with children. Enhanced DBS check to be undertaken on
appointment.
What the school offers its staff
- Archway benefits to include shopping discounts and competitions
- A free and confidential employee assistance programme offering counselling and advice
- Access to a generous pension scheme
- Access to discounted travel schemes
- Cycle to work scheme
- Comprehensive training and support
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
- Eye care voucher scheme
- Free flu vaccine
- Access to e-learning and development
Further information about the job
The Trust is seeking self-motivated and passionate candidates who can fulfil the role of Attendance & Community Officer at Archway Learning Trust.
The post holders will work under the guidance of senior staff to promote positive attitudes towards regular academy attendance and punctuality amongst students and their parents/carers and to encourage them to derive maximum benefit and opportunity from their education. The post holder will also be responsible for implementing an attendance and punctuality programme with measurable and effective improvement strategies and for the planning, development and monitoring of student attendance and punctuality in addition to supporting the overall pastoral function of the school. The post holder will also forge strong links with the community including those from the GRT community.
Archway Learning Trust, previously Bluecoat Academies Trust was formed in April 2014 as a result of the very long and successful history of Bluecoat Academy. We welcomed three further secondary schools in Derby to the Trust in 2021 and opened Bluecoat Trent Academy, a secondary Free School in Nottingham in September 2021.
The Trust now comprises of Bluecoat Aspley Academy, Bluecoat Sixth Form, Bluecoat Wollaton Academy, Bluecoat Beechdale Academy, Bluecoat Primary Academy, The Nottingham Emmanuel School and Sixth Form, Bluecoat Trent Academy, The Long Eaton School, Lees Brook Academy, Alvaston Moor Academy and the Bluecoat SCITT Alliance (School Centred Initial Teacher Training).
The successful candidate will be committed to the students and academy life and will possess the ability to communicate effectively and be able to raise the standards of learning for all of the students with whom they are required to work.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to the satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check, Barred List check, the receipt of satisfactory references, online searches and any other statutory checks that are required for the post. We are an equal opportunities employer.
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About Lees Brook Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1101 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lees Brook Academy website
- Email address
- hr@archwaytrust.co.uk
Lees Brook Community School is committed to working with pupils and their parents to enable each youngster to achieve success in all areas of life – academic, personal, physical, social;Raising standards of achievement, increasing access and widening participation in PE and Sport for everyone in our school, partner schools, wider community and Derby City;Changing the culture for learning in our community by raising self-esteem, recognising achievement, promoting pride within the local area and providing pathways for talented performers;Building a community for learning in which everyone (pupils, parents, staff, governors, and the wider community) sees learning as a life-long process for them to engage in.
At Lees Brook, we believe how we learn is as important as what we learn and the kind of person we each become matters as much as what we achieve. Each of us is responsible for our actions and our behaviour; each one of us has a right to feel safe, secure and free from bullying in school; each one of us has a right to learn and achieve at the highest level we are capable of. The way in which we deal with other people matters, so we should always treat other people as we would wish to be treated and we learn from our mistakes as well as our successes.
Lees Brook is a school that cares for the people within it. We have a uniquely inclusive school which allows everyone to succeed. Our safe, successful and positive learning community ensures that every student is able to fulfil their potential; but more than that, to also become well rounded young people who will go on and thrive in the world of work.
Mrs Z House - Headteacher
Arranging a visit to Lees Brook Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@archwaytrust.co.uk.
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