Attendance Officer
James Brindley School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2AF10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1 September 2025
Closing date
9 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
27 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 3.30pm This is built up of 28.75 + 3.78 banked hours (Banked hours are additional hours worked to enable you to take school holidays as paid leave)
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1-year fixed term contract
Pay scale
- Grade 3: £26,409pa (pro rata) - £32,654pa (pro rata) + SEN 1,670pa (pro rata)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you passionate about making sure every child has access to education—no matter the barriers? Do you have a talent for building trust with families and keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes? If so, we want you on our team.
About the Role
We're seeking a proactive, compassionate, and highly organised Attendance Officer to support our Hospital Short-Term Provision (Home Teaching) service. This essential role bridges the gap between education and home for pupils who cannot attend school. You’ll play a crucial role in:
- Encouraging and ensuring pupil attendance at both in-person and online lessons delivered in the home.
- Supporting the Centre Leader with planning and scheduling lessons.
- Carrying out home visits to help families prepare for home teaching, including completing risk assessments.
- Building strong relationships with pupils, families, and staff to reduce barriers to engagement and promote a positive learning experience.
This is more than just an administrative post—you will be a key link in helping some of our most vulnerable learners reconnect with education.
What We’re Looking For
- A strong communicator who’s confident in working with families, children, and professionals.
- Experience in attendance, safeguarding, or family support work is highly desirable.
- Someone who thrives in a flexible, fast-paced, and people-focused role.
- Strong planning and IT skills for managing tutor deployment and lesson tracking.
- A real team player, committed to improving outcomes for children.
What the school offers its staff
Why Join Us?
- A role with real purpose and visible impact
- Supportive leadership and professional development opportunities
- Flexible and varied working days – every week is different
- Be part of a dedicated team that believes education should be accessible to all
Apply today and help us ensure that every child gets the support they need to thrive – wherever they are.
This is an excellent time to join James Brindley as the Academy continues to implement a strategic vision developed by young people, staff, and other stakeholders. Join us to ‘Think Differently’ to inspire young people to overcome all barriers and achieve their dreams.
James Brindley is an academy based in a wide variety of locations across the City of Birmingham. During a school year, we educate over 3,000 young people for periods ranging from a few days in hospital to several years in one of our teaching centres. Many of our young people have complex medical needs and many have been out of education for a significant period prior to joining us. We offer a full-time curriculum to young people from EYFS to KS5 and our aim is always to enable them to ‘close the gap’ and to exceed expected progress during the time they are with us.
Benefits of working for James Brindley Academy include;
- Employee Assistance Programme, which offers a 24-hour helpline for advice regarding legal, financial, medical, consumer, work and family matters, in addition to counselling.
- Wellbeing champions allocated to each James Brindley Centre, who are committed to supporting all employees to improve their physical and mental wellbeing.
- A benefits portal which has various offers including a cycle to work scheme, a low-cost health plan, childcare voucher scheme and dining discounts.
- LGPS pension scheme
- Free parking, near to Birmingham City Centre, which can be used evenings and weekends.
Further details about the role
Completed application forms are to be emailed to vacancies@jamesbrindley.org.uk. Please ensure the application form is signed if sending via email.
If your application is shortlisted, you will be contacted via email within 2 to 3 weeks of the closing date. Please ensure you check your junk/spam inboxes.
Commitment to safeguarding
James Brindley Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this. Please be aware that this post is subject to an enhanced DBS clearance check and any offer of employment is made conditional of this. You will also be required to register and pay for the DBS update service and ensure that documentary evidence is produced to ensure annual compliance and updates. You will also be required to provide written consent for the employer to access this information at any time.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to vacancies@jamesbrindley.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About James Brindley School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 137 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- James Brindley School website
- Email address
- vacancies@jamesbrindley.org.uk
James Brindley is a specialist academy which aims to provide a high quality education in a safe, supportive and aspirational environment for all children and young people unable to attend mainstream school because of health related or special educational needs.
We provide education for children and young people aged 2 – 19 who are in hospital or unable to attend mainstream school due to their medical conditions or special educational needs.
James Brindley Academy delivers education across 10 sites including teaching centres and hospitals throughout Birmingham.
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