Attendance & Family Support Officer
Two Rivers High School, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B77 2HJ3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
27 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 32.5 hours Monday to Friday (term-time only)
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £22,078 - £ 24,780 (Grade 7)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a proactive individual who will take a professional and customer focused approach based upon mutual respect to manage attendance by encouraging inclusion, offering pastoral opportunities and provide support to families within our school.
Required as soon as available.
Salary:
Support Staff Grade: 7
Actual Salary: £22,078 to £24,780
Hours: 32.5 hours per week, term-time only
Two Rivers High School
Our school meets the needs of 270 pupils with special needs including ADHD, autism, speech, language and communication difficulties and social & emotional difficulties. Re-awarded in March 2024, Two Rivers High School is an Outstanding School for pupils with Special Educational Needs.
Purpose of the role
You’ll be working to safeguard and support the education and welfare of schools children and young people with a range of special educational need – promoting inclusion and integration to attend lessons and activities in school, using flexible and imaginative approaches provide pastoral support and mentoring to raise self-esteem, behaviour and understanding, building constructive relationships with families and other agencies and professionals to achieve positive outcomes. At Two Rivers High School you will get all the support you need from our Senior Leadership Team, Safeguarding, Teaching and other professionals and have opportunities for additional training to help you to build a rewarding career.
Responsibilities:
Support for School Attendance and Families
- Liaison with safeguarding team and office attendance administrator to oversee outstanding absence marks, and where necessary make home visits to ascertain welfare and pupil whereabouts.
- To check accuracy of attendance codes in a timely manner each morning.
- To provide Early Help to families of concern, via home visits and meetings within school and where necessary mediate between families and school. Ensure that these interventions are recorded accurately and timely.
- To develop attendance action plans and early help plans, which will be agreed and shared with families.
- To send initial attendance letters of concern as appropriate.
- To signpost parents to other services as required.
- Have daily oversight of attendance data and trends to provide strategic responses/ feedback.
- To identify and reduce the number of late attendances.
- To support whole school attendance initiatives and those defined as vulnerable.
- To support with preparing paperwork for referrals to the local authority.
- To support in Educational Consultation Meetings and to provide witness statements of chronological support
Support to Pupils
- To attend weekly pastoral meetings to discuss pupils with attendance concerns and in liaison with the pastoral team contribute to the development of inclusion strategies to improve attendance.
- Support the integration of students who have joined the school under difficult circumstances
- Provide academic and pastoral mentoring for specific students with poor attendance, identified by the strategic attendance lead.
- Provide support for emotional based school avoiders, this may include work with the home.
- To identify and provide intervention to students who a persistently not attending lessons.
- Organise, when appropriate, or support extra-curricular activities for disaffected
- Provide lunchtime opportunities for pupils as required.
- To work with vulnerable groups of students within school (e.g. student carers, ‘Looked After’ students, students in crisis) and 1:1 students as directed.
- To improve the behaviour and well-being of individual students by developing approaches based on our existing good practice.
- To undertake flexible and imaginative approaches in offering support to children, their families and carers.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
- A welcoming, stimulating and supportive environment
- A focus on staff well-being with staff social events and well-being counsellor
- A well established and supportive induction programme for all staff at all levels
- Continuing Professional Development
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Excellent resources, programs and technology to support learning in school
- A highly professional team who would welcome you on board
- A large and expanding school with high standards and an ambitious desire to better the lives of our pupils and impact further on our wider community.
Further details about the role
Interested in joining us?
Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our team. We look forward to meeting interested candidates and strongly encourage you to visit the school. To arrange a visit please telephone the school Office on 01827 426124
Closing Date for application: 28th March 2025 (midday)
Interviews will take place: week commencing 31st March 2025
To apply for this position please download the application form from ‘available documents’ or visit www.tworiversschool.net and view ‘News & Events, Vacancies’. All completed applications should be returned directly to the Bursar: recruitment-high@tworiversschool.net
School Address: Two Rivers High School, Torc Campus, Silverlink Road, Tamworth, B77 2HJ. Tel: 01827 426124
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The position is subject to a criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form. In addition, for shortlisted candidates an online search (including social media) will be conducted as part of schools’ due diligence in line with KCSIE (Keeping Children Safe in Education).
Commitment to safeguarding
Endeavour Multi Academy Trust
SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT FOR SAFER RECRUITMENT
Please see separate attached document.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to Recruitment-High@tworiversschool.net
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Two Rivers High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- School size
- 255 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Two Rivers High School website
- Email address
- Recruitment-High@tworiversschool.net
- Phone number
- 01827426124
Two Rivers High School
Our school meets the needs of 255 pupils with special needs including ADHD, autism, speech, language and communication difficulties and social & emotional difficulties. Awarded in January 2019, Two Rivers High School is an Outstanding School for pupils with Special Educational Needs.
Arranging a visit to Two Rivers High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Recruitment-High@tworiversschool.net.
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