78 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    Start date to be agreed with the successful candidate.

  • Closing date

    31 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    10 January 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 37 Hours Per Week, Term Time Only + 5 Days

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

C1 (SCP 12-17) £27,711 – £30,060, Actual Salary: £23,834 - £25,854

What skills and experience we're looking for

John Smeaton Academy are seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Attendance Officer. This opportunity is of great importance to our work as an academy with the successful candidate being responsible for supporting young people and their families with exceptional attendance. This role is of great importance to our work as an academy – the successful applicant will be expected to support the attendance team in improving the attendance and punctuality across by monitoring the attendance of students and referring concerns.

The ideal applicant will have:

  • 5+ GCSE C/4 and above (or equivalent) including English and Mathematics.
  • A full, clean driving license.
  • Good ICT skills
  • Knowledge of the social, emotional and mental health needs of young people.

What the school offers its staff

As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:

  • Membership to a local government pension scheme.
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
  • Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
  • £2k Cycle to work scheme.

Further details about the role

About us:

On 1 September 2021 John Smeaton Academy joined The GORSE Academies Trust, an organisation renowned for excellence in education.The trust has a nationally recognised track record of transforming inadequate schools and making them great again, or for the first time in their history.Consequently, this role represents an incredibly exciting opportunity for any candidate who is eager to be a part of an organisation that seeks to secure the very highest educational standard for every student.We are determined to ensure students at John Smeaton Academy are inspired to ‘Secure the Gift of Choice’ and we expect any successful candidate to be passionate and tenacious in their quest for all round academic and pastoral excellence.

A unique opportunity to be part of the rapid transformation of an academy, and its wider community.

In 2019 John Smeaton Academy’s performance data placed it as the lowest performing secondary school in the city of Leeds and one of the worst performing in the country.It is fair to say that John Smeaton Academy was a school whose performance for many years was unconvincing, resulting in the community losing confidence in the school.

The academy has already improved significantly as evidenced by parent/carer and student feedback alongside the day-to-day experience of the students.

If you would like to know more about John Smeaton Academy, please visit our website atwww.johnsmeatonacademy.org.uk.

How to Apply:

If you’re as excited about this opportunity as we are, a Job Description/Person Specification and application form is available to download from The GORSE Academies Trust website (www.tgat.org.uk/jobs), by email toenquiries@johnsmeatonacademy.org.ukor by telephone on 0113 8313900.

Please note if you submit an electronic application, we will not require a hard copy.CVs are not accepted.

Candidates will be shortlisted and invited to interview while this advert remains live, if a successful candidate is found the advert will be withdrawn. We therefore strongly encourage you to apply as soon as possible so you do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity.

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.

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About John Smeaton Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
604 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

School location

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