Attendance Officer
Great Yarmouth Charter Academy, Great Yarmouth, NR30 4LS14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
October 2025
Closing date
1 September 2025 at 1am
Date listed
18 August 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Salary: Support Staff Pay Scale F: £25,669 to £27,844 pro-rata per annum (Actual) (£28,598 - £31,022 full time/full year equivalent)
Attendance Officer job summary
Salary: Support Staff Pay Scale F: £25,669 to £27,844 pro-rata per annum (Actual) (£28,598 - £31,022 full time/full year equivalent)
Working Weeks: 40 weeks
Start Date: October 2025
We are seeking a reliable, proactive and efficient Attendance Officer to join the team at Great Yarmouth Charter Academy.
The successful candidate will help our students achieve success by working with students, families, staff and other agencies to support and intervene with student attendance. You will have excellent organisational skills and confidence in communicating with a range of different stakeholders, including students and parents.
Before applying, please read the attached Recruitment Pack and Job Description, for more details about the role. We ask that you read this pack carefully, especially the “Planning your application” section from page 11. This will support your application ensuring you have the opportunity to tell us about your relevant skills, experience and qualifications that relate to the job description and person specification in addition to details of your references covering the last 5 years.
The main responsibility of the Attendance Officer role will be:
- To promote high levels of school attendance and punctuality
- To liaise with parents, relevant County Council, alternative education providers, schools and other staff to support and improve student attendance
- To conduct meetings with students and families
- To support good attendance through mentoring and small group work with students.
- To ensure the swift and accurate completion of the school register and any other attendance documentation
The ideal candidate will have:
- GCSE (or equivalent) in Maths and English
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience in a relevant role
- Experience in working in monitoring attendance and punctuality of students
- Ability to build good relationships with teaching staff and Academy Leadership Team
Charter was rated as good by Ofsted in June 2024. Ofsted stated that “Pupils at Great Yarmouth Charter Academy are proud to attend the school. It provides them with a safe and structured environment. It is a place where pupils can thrive and achieve their potential.”
Over the last four rounds of pupil admissions at year 7 the school is now oversubscribed with first choice pupils. Our job adverts are linked to this growth and our desire to support pupils from our community.
We are part of the Inspiration Trust, twice ranked as the country’s top family of comprehensive schools for pupil progress, and strongly believe in the importance of giving the widest educational opportunities to all young people, regardless of their background. We have strong networks across the Trust, with opportunities to work with a diverse range of schools and partners. We are committed to offering excellent professional and learning opportunities for our staff, with a busy programme of continuing professional development courses delivered by some of the country’s best educational thinkers and practitioners.
The Inspiration Trust is a Multi Academy Trust, committed to delivering the very best educational experience for the young people of Norfolk and Suffolk, across 17 schools. We are ambitious for our schools and communities and want to create Britain’s highest performing federation of 3-19 schools and transform education in the East. Inspiration Trust specialises in transforming schools in disadvantaged areas and taking academies from failing to outstanding.
For information on what it is like to live and work in Great Yarmouth, click here.
When you join Inspiration Trust's thriving network of talented teachers, leaders and support staff, you join an organisation that supports you to be the best you can be. The Trust offers a varied professional development programme for employees.
We are committed to offering excellent professional opportunities for our staff, through careful support and personalised CPD. We offer a structured and specific induction programme.
The Trust also offers:
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions
- Health Plan and Employee Assistance Programme giving access to a range of services including claim back costs for Eye Care and prescriptions and access to 24/7 virtual GP Service and mental health support (Terms and conditions and restrictions apply).
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Retail Benefits offering discounts with many shops and suppliers
- Corporate membership of the Norwich Theatre Royal
- Salary sacrifice schemes, including home technology, smartphones and healthcare plans, including Dental insurance and Gym membership discounts (Terms and conditions and restrictions apply).
- Free Parking (on most sites)
*Some benefits are only available following successfully passing probation
To apply for this role please click the Apply button to complete the online application form.
Closing date for applications: 9am on Monday 1st September 2025
Interview date: Friday 5th September 2025
Inspiration Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks. We are an equal opportunities employer.
When you start your application, you will receive several emails from our application provider, Vacancy Filler. Please be aware that some email providers may mistakenly mark these messages as spam. To avoid missing important updates, we recommend checking your spam or junk folders regularly throughout the application process and marking these emails as safe.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Great Yarmouth Charter Academy
- School type
- Free School, Christian, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 895 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Great Yarmouth Charter Academy website
Great Yarmouth Charter Academy is a secondary school with a new name and a long history in the borough. We can trace our roots back to 1551 but are forging a new path for secondary education in our great town.
We are part of the Inspiration Trust family of schools in East Anglia, and work particularly closely with our sister schools in the borough.
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