Attendance Officer
Gosford Hill School, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, OX5 2NTDeadline is today
Start date details
as soon as possible
Closing date
2 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
24 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20,320.77 - £22,018.08 Annually (Actual) Grade 6 – £20320.77 - £22018.08 pa (FTE £25992 - £28163) - 34.5 hours per week - 38 weeks per year
Attendance Officer job summary
Attendance Officer - 34.25 hours per week, 38 weeks p.a. (term time only)
Grade 6 – £20,320.77 - £22,018.08 pa (FTE £25,992 - £28,163)
Do you want to make a difference to young people and work in a school that:
- Is friendly and community centred, where staff genuinely feel part of a team
- Places staff well-being at the heart of everything we do
- Has excellent student behaviour so teachers can teach and students can learn, “Positive relationships ensure typically calm, courteous behaviour across the school” (Ofsted 2022)
- Prioritises high quality bespoke CPDL as well as opportunities for collaboration and support across a successful and highly respected multi academy trust
If so, then this could be the role for you.
We are currently looking for an Attendance Officer to join our Student Services Team. The successful applicant will support the school to meet the statutory requirement of taking accurate registration by maintaining accurate attendance records and analysing data. This is a key role in the Student Services Team and will involve liaising with Pastoral Leads, Tutors and parents/carers.
The successful candidate will enjoy working with young people and have a strong commitment to improving the life chances of our students. Previous experience of working in a similar role would be useful but not essential, as we are willing to develop the right candidate who has a positive, can do attitude with a good attention to detail that we are looking for.
Gosford Hill School is situated in the village of Kidlington, on the north western edge of Oxford near to Oxford Parkway Station.
This is a great opportunity to join our school at a very exciting time in its journey, the school is on the DFE Schools Rebuilding Programme, which means that the successful applicant will have the privilege of working and teaching in a brand new, purpose built, 21st Century school building from 2026. Gosford Hill is a school with great students and ambitious, talented staff, who aim to develop students who have the belief in themselves that anything is possible. We want each one of them to aspire to be the best they can be without any limitations and it’s important to us that our staff feel the same.
The closing date for receipt of applications is Midnight on Sunday 2nd February 2025 however, we reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we receive applications that meet the criteria. Once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Interview dates to be confirmed.
If you would like to have a confidential conversation with Nicola Cooke, about the role, prior to application, then please email jobapplications@gosfordhillschool.org or telephone 01865 374971.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The River Learning Trust and Gosford Hill School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
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 are not accepted.
About Gosford Hill School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 848 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Gosford Hill School website (opens in new tab)
School location
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