Attendance Manager
Wymondham High Academy, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 0QT4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
8 December 2025 at 9am
Date listed
24 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
- NJC SCP 18-22 £16.35 - £17.47 per hour
Additional allowances
NJC SCP 18-22 £16.35 - £17.47 per hour
Attendance Manager job summary
- 37 Hours per week
- Term time plus 3 inset days
- SCP 18-22
Are you passionate about ensuring every child has the opportunity to learn, thrive, and achieve their potential?
Wymondham High is seeking a highly motivated and organised Attendance Manager to lead our whole-school strategy on pupil attendance. This is a key role in supporting our mission to provide every learner with the best possible education through excellent attendance.
About the Role
As Attendance Manager, you will:
- Lead and implement effective strategies to raise attendance levels and reduce persistent absence across the school.
- Provide a high standard of attendance system management and administration, ensuring accurate data collection, monitoring, and reporting.
- Work closely with pupils, families, staff, and external agencies to promote a culture of regular attendance and early intervention.
- Analyse attendance data and trends to inform strategic planning and targeted support.
- Contribute to safeguarding by ensuring prompt follow-up on absences and maintaining effective communication with key stakeholders.
About You
We are looking for someone who:
- Has strong organisational and data management skills, with great attention to detail.
- Is confident in using attendance management systems
- Has excellent interpersonal skills and can build positive relationships with pupils, parents, and colleagues.
- Is proactive, solution-focused, and committed to improving outcomes for all children.
- Has experience in a school or educational setting (desirable but not essential).
About Wymondham High
Wymondham High Academy is a thriving and over subscribed Secondary School. We pride ourselves on our OFSTED Good rating, with our Sixth Form being recognised as Outstanding. At Wymondham High Academy, we are dedicated to providing an excellent education for our students. With a team of supportive and ambitious staff, we strive for all our students to excel and reach their full potential.
For an informal discussion or to visit the school please contact Mrs Claire Taylor, Assistant Headteacher taylorc@wh-at.net
Closing Date: Monday, 8th December 2025
Interviews: Friday, 12th December 2025
Enrich Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the Trust to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
Exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Enrich Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the Trust to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Wymondham High Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1639 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wymondham High Academy website
Wymondham High is a very successful and oversubscribed 11-18 Academy, 8 miles from Norwich:
- A "Good School" with an "Outstanding" Sixth Form (Ofsted, November 2017)
- Tatler magazine Top 20 State School 2018
- Highest Performing State School in Norfolk 2018
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