Attendance Home Visit Officer

Lawnswood School, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS16 5AG

19 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  3 September 2025

• Closing date

  22 September 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  3 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Casual
• Full-time equivalent salary: Pay Scale: A1/A3 SCP 2-4, actual salary £8,037 - £

Attendance Home Visit Officer job summary

Temporary – 1 year, 15hrs per wk, term time only 

Pay Scale: A1/A3 SCP 2-4, actual salary £8,037 - £8,291 (2025 pay award pending)

Required from: As soon as possible

We are seeking a reliable and compassionate individual to join our pastoral team as an Attendance Home Visit Officer. In this role, you will support the school’s efforts to improve student attendance by conducting home visits to families of students with persistent or unexplained absences.

We need someone with enthusiasm, a ‘can do’ mentality, and an ability to build positive relationships. We will expect you to support young people and their families to ensure attendance at school. This role affords the opportunity to work flexibly within the school day alongside an experienced team.

Lawnswood School can offer you a professional challenge and a rewarding opportunity, working with a collaborative leadership team that’s passionate about the progress and development of every student.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. If shortlisted, you will be required to disclose relevant information regarding criminal history and an online search will be conducted. This includes only information publicly available online. We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. If shortlisted, you will be required to disclose relevant information regarding criminal history and an online search will be conducted. This includes only information publicly available online.

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.

About Lawnswood School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1396 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lawnswood School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lawnswood-school

Again, rated a 'Good' school by Ofsted in September 2023, Lawnswood School is set in North Leeds and has a wide catchment area and a diverse intake of students from cultural backgrounds and socio-economic groups.
Under stable leadership and a supportive and inspiring leadership team, Lawnswood School offers opportunities for professional challenge and personal development.

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