Attendance Officer
Fortis Academy, Birmingham, West Midlands, B44 8NU6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
24 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Full time or part time hours will be considered
Contract type
- Fixed term - Fixed Term until 31st August 2025
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,183 - £26,409 FTE
Actual salary
- £21,950 - £23,019
Pay scale
- Grade 5 - SCP 16 - SCP 20
What skills and experience we're looking for
As Attendance Officer, you will be responsible for monitoring and improving student attendance, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and academy policies. You will work closely with students, parents, and staff to identify and address attendance issues, promoting the importance of regular attendance as a key factor in student achievement.
Key Responsibilities:-
- Monitor Attendance: Track, record, and analyse student attendance and punctuality using the academy’s MIS system.
- Early Intervention: Identify patterns of absence, liaise with families, and implement strategies to encourage improved attendance.
- Communication: Work closely with parents and carers through phone calls, meetings, and home visits to address attendance concerns.
- Reporting: Prepare attendance reports for senior leaders and external agencies, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail.
- Compliance: Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, including issuing fixed penalty notices where necessary.
- Collaboration: Work with the pastoral team, heads of year, and external agencies to provide a holistic approach to supporting students.
- Promote Awareness: Lead attendance campaigns within the academy to raise awareness of the importance of regular attendance.
What the school offers its staff
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
Flexible working opportunities
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.
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.
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About Fortis Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1339 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Fortis Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jayne.clarence@shaw-education.org.uk
Great Barr Academy is sponsored by Shaw Education Trust. We are based in north Birmingham and have a large, diverse and vibrant community of students. We have a well-established and very successful Sixth Form.
We pride ourselves on our strong ethos which values inclusion, good citizenship, mutual respect and collaboration. We aim to provide a wide range of stimulating opportunities to expand our students’ horizons within an environment in which they feel safe and well cared for and in which they can achieve their best, develop self-confidence and flourish as individuals. We encourage the active participation of parents/carers in their children’s education; only when the school, the child and parents/carers are working together will children excel.
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