Attendance Officer
Honley High School, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, HD9 6QJ9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
26 July 2024 at 9am
Date listed
13 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Hours: 37 hours per week, term time plus 3 days
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Salary: Scale F (NJC point 16-19) Actual Salary: £24,190 - £25,469
What skills and experience we're looking for
Salary: Scale F (NJC point 16-19) Actual Salary: £24,190 - £25,469
Hours: 37 hours per week term time plus 3 days
Closing Date: Friday 26th July 2024 at 9am
Interview: w/c 5th August2024
Start Date: September 2024
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
An EXCITING OPPORTUNITY to join a team that provides much needed support to our children and families in securing good attendance to school. Working for a Trust that really values its staff and well-being, you will share our enthusiasm and commitment to improving attendance for our children, be committed to the pursuit of support for those who need it and thrive in working across a range of situations. With a friendly and professional manner, you will be joining a supportive and dedicated team.
What we’re looking for
Someone who:
- Has excellent skills in communication to engage with potentially challenging families to secure good attendance to school
- Has excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build positive relationships
- Has the ability to motivate, persuade, negotiate and influence others
- Is well organised, proactive and able to thrive under pressure
- Is self-driven and results orientated
What the role involves in a nutshell:
- Visit pupils and their parents/carers in their homes to build relationships and improve attendance
- Collect identified students from their home and bring them in to the school and, if necessary, take them home again at the end of their session.
- Use a range of assessments and intervention strategies to support students and families to re-engage them in their education.
- Work with the Student Services Team in order to support your role as Attendance Officer
If our school sounds like a place in which you could really make a difference, then we’d love to hear from you.
For further information see our job pack below
What the school offers its staff
What you’ll get in return?
You’ll be joining a school and Trust which is all about putting staff first – with numerous wellbeing initiatives and social events to enjoy each term!
Benefits
- Automatic enrolment to the West Yorkshire Pension Fund
- Staff development through appraisal and CPD
- Access to a canteen
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Great transport links – Honley Train Station is across the road
- Free onsite car parking
- Collaboration with Trust colleagues in similar roles
- Working as part of a creative and supportive team who want the best for all of our students
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HOW TO APPLY
Say yes to new adventures.
Could we be a good fit for each other? If you’d like a chat about the role or have questions ahead of making a formal application, we’d be delighted to hear from you. Please contact our Personal Assistant to the Senior Leadership team Nicola Pogmore via n.pogmore@honley.tlt.school
If you’re ready for a new challenge, please apply by completing our application form and returning it to recruitment@tlt.school by the closing date.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
SAFER RECRUITMENT
We are committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff and volunteers are expected to behave in a way that supports this commitment and are subject to an enhanced DBS check. Please be aware that it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. If you are shortlisted for interview, we will undertake an online public search in line with guidance from the Department for Education and Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@tlt.school
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About Honley High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1283 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Honley High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@tlt.school
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