Attendance Officer
Kingsmead School, Enfield, EN1 1YQ25 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible - April 2025
Closing date
28 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,811.00 Annually (Actual)
Attendance Officer job summary
The Attendance Officer will need to:
Duties and responsibilities Administration
- Ensure daily attendance registers are accurate and complete, and follow up with staff members about any incomplete data
- 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
- Manage attendance returns for the school census
- Manage the process of issuing penalty notices to parents
- Manage the process of referrals to the Educational Welfare Officer (EWO)
- Maintain accurate records of communications with parents/carers and relevant interventions
- Build and refresh knowledge of the school’s MIS Arbor and other relevant systems
Monitoring and reporting
- Produce and interpret attendance reports for school leaders, identifying key statistics, reasons for absence and any patterns of concern
- Track attendance of vulnerable groups of pupils and share information with school leaders (HOYs, Safeguarding Team)
- Identify pupils that need additional support to improve their attendance
- Work with school leaders to identify appropriate interventions to improve attendance for particular groups or individual pupils
- Lead daily or weekly check-ins to review progress and the impact of support/interventions
- Work with school leaders to develop and revise the school’s attendance policy and procedures
- Implement children missing education (CME) procedures when appropriate
- Identify families that have had no contact for 3 days and initiate home visits
- Provide regular reports to attendance organisations to raise awareness of emerging at-risk pupils
Working with parents/carers
Professional development
- Track attendance of vulnerable groups of pupils and share information with school leaders (HOYs, Safeguarding Team)
- Identify pupils that need additional support to improve their attendance
- Work with school leaders to identify appropriate interventions to improve attendance for particular groups or individual pupils
- Lead daily or weekly check-ins to review progress and the impact of support/interventions
- Work with school leaders to develop and revise the school’s attendance policy and procedures
- Implement children missing education (CME) procedures when appropriate
- Identify families that have had no contact for 3 days and initiate home visits
- Provide regular reports to attendance organisations to raise awareness of emerging at-risk pupils
- Coordinate meetings with pupils and parents/carers to implement interventions and track progress
- Build positive relations with parents/carers to encourage family involvement in their child’s attendance
- Identify, and where possible, mitigate potential barriers to attendance in partnership with families
- Take opportunities to build the appropriate skills, qualifications, and/or experience needed for the role, with support from the school
- Take part in the school’s appraisal procedures
Previous applicants need not apply.
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 are not accepted.
About Kingsmead School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1559 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Kingsmead School website (opens in new tab)
Kingsmead is a large, mixed, oversubscribed school – easily accessible from both central London and surrounds – with loyal staff, an established standing in the community and a very strong track record. We are consistently above average in Progress 8 and A Level value added, with high Ebacc entry and a wide range of options at KS4 and KS5. Those outcomes are built on a calm, purposeful and collaborative atmosphere.
Despite the school’s size and standing, the Headteacher was appointed relatively young after experience of leading for a high-performing academy chain and in one of the most successful London boroughs. He has restarted the school culture and approach over the last few years and is determined to push it forward from being in the top 20% nationally to being somewhere where things are achieved others do not think possible.
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