Attendance Officer

Lees Brook Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 4QX

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  23 May 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Accounting, Art and design, Biology, Business studies
• Working pattern: Full time: Full Time, Permanent, Term Time Only.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: From £31,067 - £34,314 per annum. (FTE)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Attendance

• Contribute to the implementation, organisation and monitoring of all student attendance and punctuality matters in order that targets are met;
• Be responsible for visiting students where poor attendance and punctuality is a factor. Develop innovative and new ways of encouraging families to make attendance and punctuality at the Academy a top priority.
• Challenge unauthorised absence including the responsibility for home visits to investigate and challenge nonattendance.
• Develop and maintain effective and productive working relationships with all relevant agencies in relation to attendance, including family support workers, Elective Home Education Team (EHE) and Children Missing Education Team (CME) (within Nottingham LA) in order to work collaboratively together.
• Be responsible for referrals to the Educational Welfare Service (EWS) on all formal non-attendance procedures.
• Work with appropriate staff to develop individual action plans to improve attendance/punctuality with individual students when their attendance/punctuality gives cause for concern.
• Be responsible for enquiries relating to attendance and punctuality by students, parents/carers and staff.
• Develop specialist knowledge of attendance and punctuality issues and best practice and provide advice and guidance to the SLT on matters relating to attendance and community matters
• Assist with student welfare duties
• Be proficient and responsible for using the Academy behaviour monitoring software (Go4Schools) and providing meaningful and accurate reports on student behaviour on a daily, weekly, termly and annual basis to support with the rewards and sanctions for the Academy.
• Work with relevant Academy colleagues on the development of student IEPs.
• To undertake a comprehensive range of administration tasks, ensuring that work is prioritised and deadlines are met.
• Undertake general office duties, answering general telephone calls and face to face enquiries, photocopying, minute taking, etc.
• Enter and retrieve data relating to students onto the SIMS.net database and other software packages as required. Produce statistical reports from SIMS.net and other database packages.
• Contributing to the planning, development and organisation of office systems/procedures.
• Completing duties to ensure the safety and well-being of students, as directed by the Principal.

Pastoral Administration

General Administration

What the school offers its staff

• Archway benefits to include shopping discounts and competitions
• A free and confidential employee assistance programme offering counselling and advice
• *Access to Teachers’ Pensions / Generous pension scheme
• Access to discounted travel schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Comprehensive training and support
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• Eye care voucher scheme
• Free flu vaccine
• Access to e-learning and development

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to the satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check, Barred List check, the receipt of satisfactory references, online searches and any other statutory checks that are required for the post. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Applying for the job

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About Lees Brook Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1095 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lees Brook Academy website
• Email address: hr@archwaytrust.co.uk
• Phone number: 01332671723
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lees-brook-community-school-derby

Lees Brook Community School is committed to working with pupils and their parents to enable each youngster to achieve success in all areas of life – academic, personal, physical, social;Raising standards of achievement, increasing access and widening participation in PE and Sport for everyone in our school, partner schools, wider community and Derby City;Changing the culture for learning in our community by raising self-esteem, recognising achievement, promoting pride within the local area and providing pathways for talented performers;Building a community for learning in which everyone (pupils, parents, staff, governors, and the wider community) sees learning as a life-long process for them to engage in.

At Lees Brook, we believe how we learn is as important as what we learn and the kind of person we each become matters as much as what we achieve. Each of us is responsible for our actions and our behaviour; each one of us has a right to feel safe, secure and free from bullying in school; each one of us has a right to learn and achieve at the highest level we are capable of. The way in which we deal with other people matters, so we should always treat other people as we would wish to be treated and we learn from our mistakes as well as our successes.

Lees Brook is a school that cares for the people within it. We have a uniquely inclusive school which allows everyone to succeed. Our safe, successful and positive learning community ensures that every student is able to fulfil their potential; but more than that, to also become well rounded young people who will go on and thrive in the world of work.

Mrs Z House - Headteacher

Arranging a visit to Lees Brook Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@archwaytrust.co.uk.

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