Attendance Officer

Esteem North Academy, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S41 0LN

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Sept 25

• Closing date

  1 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  23 April 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: £26,034.00 - £27,761.00 Annually (Actual) Support Pay Scale Grade 08 (Points 12-15) Actual Salary £26034 - £27,761

Attendance Officer job summary

Job Title: Attendance Officer

Location: Esteem North Academy

Grade/Scale: Support Pay Scale Grade 08 (Points 12-15) Actual Salary £26034 - £27,671

Contract: 37 hours per week, term time only plus 10 days (to cover at least 1 day per school holiday)

We are looking to offer a full -time permanent contract for an attendance officer to join our academy in the creation of a new role to further support pupils to attend school and reduce barriers to attendance. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the pastoral team to provide comprehensive advice, support and proactive action to ensure that pupils improve their attendance. This role will involve identification of pupils who are persistent absentees, severely persistent absentees and those who are not improving their attendance over time. The successful candidate will work with pupils, their families, all of our sites, APs and supporting agencies to identify barriers to attendance and plan to overcome these. The attendance officer will also ensure that we are compliant with register completion,national guidance from the DfE and take responsibility for our attendance and related policies. This role will ensure that pupils are seen daily and you will take proactive action to coordinate safe and well home visits across the academy where pupils have been absent.

This role will involve implementing formal consequences such as penalty notices and holiday fines. You will complete data analysis at least half termly to identify all families who require intervention by formal action via letter following the Local Authority guidance. This will involve thorough recording and the additional 10 days work out of term time will allow for completion of data analysis and identification of formal intervention. This can be completed flexibly at home and candidates are not expected to attend the academy during school holidays.

You will organise your own diary which can be flexible to meet the needs of the academy. This will consist of planned time working at home, on each of the sites, but also must be reactive to intervene with pupil absences.

You will provide support for pupils across all sites and also support staff with their attendance knowledge and practise. This role will involve ensuring that pupils receive swift intervention and support to keep them safe, identify risks to any non- attendance and initiate rapid action. This role will also involve the celebration of improved attendance through our rewards policy. Days will be varied in order to meet the needs of the pupils. You will be led by our Assistant Headteacher and senior Pastoral Officer who manages the pastoral team and you will communicate with the safeguarding team daily.

Applicants should have good knowledge and experience of working with disaffected pupils in a school or other alternative setting. An affinity for pupils with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties is an essential quality for this challenging but rewarding opportunity. Applicants should be resilient, have high expectations, and a sense of humour. You must be able to build positive relationships with our pupils and their families and have innovative ideas for improving attendance. A growth mindset and positive ethos are essential characteristics that we are looking for.

Payment of mileage and off -site travel can be claimed for in arrears. Candidates must have access to a car and business insurance included. You may transport pupils in your own car in this role.

Please see the attached Application pack including a Welcome from The Head Teacher and more information about Esteem North Academy and Esteem MAT.

Please review the attached Job Description to learn more about the role and what we are looking for in the successful candidate. All candidates are strongly advised to contact the Headteacher directly to discuss this role prior to application. We invite suitable applicants to visit as part of our selection process.

Benefits Include:

- LGPS Pension Scheme (16.6% employer contributions)

- Generous holiday entitlement

- Access to Westfield Health membership scheme including cashback schemes for health and retail benefits, discounted gym memberships, and free confidential advice.

- Access to National College CPD platform.

For further information, please contact janine.dix@esteemnorthacademy.co.uk

We reserve the right to interview suitable candidates upon application and may close the application process prior to this date

Esteem Multi-Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its students. We expect all staff, volunteers and agency staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.

Commitment to safeguarding

Esteem Multi-Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its students. We expect all staff, volunteers and agency staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.

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About Esteem North Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 228 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Esteem North Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/north-east-derbyshire-support-centre-chesterfield

The North East Derbyshire Support Centre provides programmes of education to pupils identified as being at risk of exclusion, or who have already been permanently excluded from mainstream education. We meet the varied and complex needs of children in Key Stages 2, 3 and 4, at three sites located in Chesterfield and in the High Peak.

We are looking to recruit an experienced professional to join our academy to support our vulnerable pupils who are on roll at the High Peak site to engage in bespoke education programmes at off -site locations. These pupils may require bespoke packages as they are not yet group or school site ready. You may also be required to take pupils to visit other off site alternative provisions and transport pupils to site if they make progress to be able to engage in on site learning. This new role is available due to an increase in pupil numbers across the academy. This role will involve lone working.

Pupils may be permanently excluded or at risk of permanent exclusion from mainstream and therefore often require additional support to keep them as safe as possible and to help them re-engage in education. Pupils at our Hasland and High Peak sites are in KS3 and KS4 and may be with us for limited time before they re-integrate back into a mainstream school. Others may require more substantial support to help them progress socially and emotionally sufficiently enough to engage in learning. The successful candidate will be required to offer support by delivering off -site peripatetic education to pupils in their homes or other suitable public venues. The core skills of english and maths along with PSHRE will be the focus.

Mileage is paid for, and applicants are therefore required to have access to transport and business use included on their car insurance.

Every child deserves an education. Our primary aim is to support and re-engage young people, enabling them to think positively about their future pathway, and life after the Support Centre, whether that be re-integration into mainstream, further education or employment. Our Vision: "Inspire, Achieve, Exceed"

Our Pupils will:

• Feel safe, valued and trusted

• Recognise and achieve their full potential

• Take responsibility for their behaviour, and make healthy lifestyle choices

• Be positive about themselves and their future

• Be tolerant of others, and of the beliefs and views of others

• Be successful learners, both independently and when working with others

• Be self-motivated and have high expectations

We will achieve this by:

• Creating a safe learning environment, free of stigma and negativity

• Celebrating the success and achievements of every member of the learning community

• Establishing nurturing and supportive relationships between staff and pupils

• Setting high expectations for behaviour and academic success

• Providing a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum that provides the skills, confidence and qualifications to access opportunities in life

• Innovating learning, to engage and inspire

• Promoting tolerance and mutual respect

• Providing opportunities for students, parents and carers to voice opinions which form part of the decision-making process

• Providing an inclusive programme of learning opportunities and experiences that promote engagement

Further information about our Support Centre can be found on the website at www.nedsc.derbyshire.sch.uk

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