Attendance Manager

The Elmgreen School, London, SE27 9BZ

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  9 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  19 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Term time only plus 10 days
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: NJC SO1 (23-25) £40,404 - £41,637)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Responsible to: Deputy Headteacher

Work pattern: Full-time – Term Time Only + 10 Days

Thank you for your enquiry about the key post of Attendance Manager at The Elmgreen School. The Attendance Manager will be working with the Deputy Headteacher and Inclusion and Pastoral teams, to devise and implement strategies to achieve and maintain excellent levels of attendance and punctuality. You will be required to work with students and families to ensure barriers to good attendance are tackled.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring excellent attendance and punctuality

• Lead on monitoring and recording systems to ensure that the school meets its attendance targets.

• Take the lead with the Inclusion and Pastoral teams to identify students at risk of poor attendance and check daily on attendance and punctuality for those identified students.

• To compile and maintain casework files and facilitate regular case reviews to ensure that short and long term casework plans are realistic and achievable and administration is kept up to date.

What the school offers its staff

If you are successful in your application, you will join a staff who are hard-working, committed, positive in outlook and dedicated to the achievement of our students. We offer:

• a high standard of professional practice, with bespoke in-house CPD provision, and affiliation to nationally recognised courses and providers;

• a supportive and collegiate environment,

• a culture of high trust and accountability that values creativity and innovation, leading practice locally and nationally in a range of fields.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Elmgreen School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

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About The Elmgreen School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1110 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Elmgreen School website
• Email address: recruitment@the-elmgreen-school.org.uk
• Phone number: 02087665020
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-elmgreen-school

The Elmgreen School is an oversubscribed, high performing co-educational 11–18 secondary school and became part of the Dunraven Educational Trust in September 2021, and together we are focused on developing an exciting, dynamic and progressive community, focused on improving the outcomes for children and their families.

Dunraven Educational Trust Overview

Dunraven Educational Trust (DET) was established in 2016. It now incorporates Dunraven’s All-Through School, Goldfinch Primary, The Elmgreen School, Rosendale Primary School and Van Gogh Primary. DET is a Trust committed to one overarching aim: excellence for and from everyone. This is an expectation for both the children and adults in a school community. It is achieved in a variety of ways according to the context of each school but within the clear framework established by the Trust.

The Elmgreen School is committed to the safety and protection of its students. An enhanced DBS check and a barred list check are conditions of employment for this post.

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