Attendance Officer

Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School, Coventry, West Midlands, CV2 2AJ

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  asap

• Closing date

  5 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  15 December 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: £24,816.00 - £29,880.00 Annually (Actual)

Attendance Officer job summary

Working at Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School we wish to appoint an exceptional individual to increase school attendance and address issues affecting attendance with our students. This role will work with both students, families, staff and other agencies to identify pupils who are not achieving full attendance and building the capacity and expertise within our school to address attendance issues.

You will manage a case load of students with additional needs and their families. This will involve home visits to families in our school community. You will also manage our Attendance Assistant.

The successful candidate will:

Demonstrate a successful track record of intervention work with children, young people and their families

Have experience in supporting and engaging hard to reach families and delivering packages of support

Have experience of undertaking Early Help assessments and current Child Protection procedures

Have excellent organisational and communication skills

Be able to work collaboratively as part of a team and develop positive relationships

We can offer you:

• A strong Catholic ethos where everyone is valued
• A welcoming and ambitious team of staff
• An organisation that values, nurtures and empowers all staff
• Future professional development within an innovative and ambitious organisation

The Romero Catholic Academy operates a refer a friend scheme of £200 for the referrer. If you have been referred to this vacancy by a current employee, please highlight this within the section headlined "Where did you first hear of this vacancy?" on the application form. All rules relating to the referrals are provided within the TRCA Refer a Friend Policy on our website.

We are committed to safeguarding children. As part of the pre employment process, an enhanced DBS check, Prohibition checks, Childcare Disqualification (where appropriate) and Online/Social media screening will be undertaken in addition to other relevant background checks. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. Safeguarding is our top priority, and we encourage all applicants to review our safeguarding and child protection policy which outlines our commitment to the safety and wellbeing of our students.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.

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

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.

About Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1439 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cardinal-wiseman-catholic-school

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