Attendance & Inclusion Manager
Horizons Education Trust, Huntingdon, PE29 1TQ16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Monday 5th January, 2026
Closing date
27 November 2025 at 9am
Date listed
11 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
- £37,280.00 - £39,153.00 Annually (Actual)
Attendance & Inclusion Manager job summary
POST: Attendance & Inclusion Manager
LOCATION: Riverside Meadows Academy - St Neots & Wisbech
RESPONSIBLE TO: Director of Safeguarding & Attendance
SALARY: £37,280 - £39,153 (SO2 - points 26 to 28 of NJC Scale)
HOURS: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks a year
Focus of the Post:
The Attendance and Inclusion Manager will provide strategic leadership in safeguarding, attendance, and pastoral support across both Riverside Meadows sites within Horizons Education Trust. The postholder will play a pivotal role in strengthening the partnership between school, families, and external agencies to ensure that every pupil, including those with complex SEND, is safeguarded, supported, and able to thrive.
This role combines operational leadership driving attendance improvement and leading safeguarding practice with strategic influence, ensuring alignment with trust priorities and statutory requirements. The postholder will model exemplary professional standards, build capacity within school teams, and act as a trusted advocate for pupils and families.
Accountabilities:
1. Attendance Leadership
Support leadership with attendance across both school sites, ensuring robust systems for monitoring, intervention, and improvement.
Analyse and interpret attendance data to identify trends and barriers, producing high-quality reports for school and trust leaders.
Design and deliver effective interventions with pupils and families to secure sustained improvements in attendance particularly for pupils identified as severely absent.
Champion a culture of excellent attendance, balancing supportive approaches with appropriate challenge.
Contribute to the design, co-ordination and evaluation of high quality alternative provision pathways for identified pupils.
2. Safeguarding & Welfare
Undertake the role of Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) and complete DSL training within agreed timescales, modelling exemplary safeguarding practice across both sites.
Lead on the implementation and embedding of safeguarding policies, ensuring compliance with statutory guidance and trust procedures.
Coordinate and contribute to early help and intervention, working in partnership with families and external agencies to secure timely and effective support.
Maintain rigorous, confidential, and compliant safeguarding, welfare, and attendance records, ensuring accountability and consistency across sites.
3. Family Engagement & Support
Develop and sustain positive, solution-focused relationships with families, offering advice, guidance, and signposting to specialist services.
Lead initiatives to strengthen parental engagement, including workshops, drop-ins, and structured family support programmes.
Act as a trusted advocate for families, ensuring their voice is heard in school processes and wider multi-agency discussions.
Build and maintain strong partnerships with external providers, agencies and community organisations to broaden the range of opportunities available
4. SEND & EHCPs
Contribute to the effective implementation of EHCPs, applying a comprehensive understanding of SEND to ensure provision meets statutory requirements.
Actively participate in EHCP reviews, liaising with professionals and providing high-quality evidence to support positive pupil outcomes.
Work collaboratively with leaders and teaching teams to ensure the needs of pupils with SEND are clearly understood, planned for, and met.
Monitor and report on the impact of EHCP provision, ensuring outcomes are ambitious, appropriate, and regularly reviewed.
Safeguarding our pupils:
All staff work as part of a team. They are required to support the values and ethos of the academy and trust and school priorities as defined in the School Development Plan and priorities. This will mean focusing on the needs of colleagues, parents and pupils and being flexible in a busy pressurised environment.
Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of Disclo-sure and Barring Service check (DBS) to be undertaken. Therefore, it is essential in making your application that you disclose any convictions or cautions (excluding youth cautions, reprimands or warnings) that are not 'protected' as defined by the Ministry of Justice. The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions and bind-overs as well as pending prosecutions, which aren't 'protected' under the Rehabilita-tion of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) and check to es-tablish that a person is not barred from 'regulated' activity as defined by the Safeguard-ing Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. The fact that a pending prosecution, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment. In the event of employment being taken up, any failure to disclose relevant convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the academy. Appli-cants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers.
The trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and ex-pects all staff to share this commitment.
Person Specification:
Qualifications/Training - Essential
Relevant safeguarding training (DSL or commitment to complete).
Qualifications/Training - Desirable
Additional training in family support, mental health, or inclusion.
Knowledge/Experience - Essential
Proven track record of leading attendance improvement in an educational setting.
In-depth knowledge of safeguarding and child protection.
Comprehensive understanding of SEND and the EHCP process.
Experience of multi-agency working.
Knowledge/Experience - Desirable
Experience of working in a special school or with pupils with SLD, PMLD, or SEMH.
Leadership or management experience within a pastoral, safeguarding, or attendance role.
Knowledge of local authority attendance procedures and statutory responsibilities relevant to SEND and EHCPs.
Skills/Abilities - Essential
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
Excellent analytical and organisational skills.
Resilient, solution-focused approach with the ability to balance empathy and professional challenge.
Skills/Abilities - Desirable
Ability to lead parental engagement initiatives such as workshops and structured family support programmes.
Special Requirements
Willingness to undergo child protection screening and enhanced DBS checks.
Application form and letter of application should be submitted via My New Term only. Applications that are not submitted through My New Term, will not be accepted.
Further information about the job
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.
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.
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