Attendance Officer
Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PX17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
asap
Closing date
5 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 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
- £26,712.00 - £28,451.00 Annually (FTE) AS 7-11 FTE £26,712- £28,451 pro rata £20,361- £21,687
Attendance Officer job summary
Attendance Officer
We are looking to recruit an experienced and committed Attendance Officer to join our Pastoral Office support team. We are seeking an individual with very high expectations who is passionate about working with young people and is ambitious to see them achieve. You will be a resilient team player with a can-do attitude, will be flexible, organised and able to use your own initiative and problem-solve.
Our Attendance Officer is a key member of our Pastoral Office support team. The role involves collecting, recording, monitoring and reporting data on attendance and punctuality, and supporting our pastoral work to improve and maintain these in support of students so that they achieve the very best outcomes from their time at school.
Joining Houstone School as an Attendance Officer is a fantastic opportunity to be part of our story - providing transformational experiences for thousands of pupils, developing our staff to be the very best they can be, and influencing the wider system by demonstrating first-hand what is achievable
Key Duties
- To monitor and report on whole-school attendance data, analysing data to identify key areas of concern. To work closely with pupils, staff, parents and carers to reduce levels of absence and act appropriately when persistent absence becomes a safeguarding issue.
- Follow up on any unexplained absences with parents/carers, escalating issues as appropriate in line with school procedures initiate and oversee the administration of absence procedures, for example letters home, attendance clinics and engagement with local authorities/other external agencies and partners.
- To manage any safeguarding issues regarding attendance alongside the Pastoral/team/Designated Safeguarding Lead.
JOB SPECIFICS
Start date: asap
Salary: AS 7-11 FTE £26,712- £28,451 Actual pro rata salary £20,361- £21,687
Contract: Permanent, Full time, Term time + INSET, 39 weeks per year,32.5 hours per week.
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date
Safeguarding
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our pupils. The successful applicant will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.
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 Houstone School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 657 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Houstone School website
Houstone School opened in September 2022 and we are determined to make a positive difference to the educational landscape in Houghton Regis and the surrounding areas.
There are some key differences that we believe make Houstone School so distinctive.
Houstone School will have very strong standards of behaviour, a different approach to pupils with additional needs that believes that they can meet the heights of their peers, and aspects like longer school days that fit in with modern family life, alongside a real commitment to getting the curriculum, teaching and learning right.
Houstone School, shaped by the families and the educational teams who design it, has freedom to direct resources where they are most needed, and to ensure that our curriculum is truly aspirational.
We believe that our combination of firm discipline, very high expectations, an academic knowledge-based curriculum, and a humble approach to feedback means that we can go on to be one of the highest-achieving schools in the country. We really do want to be a ‘grammar school for all’.
Our ambition is that every single pupil will be able to attend university, and most will attend the most selective universities. We are ambitious to be the best school in the country.
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