Attendance Officer

Oxford Spires Academy, Oxford, OX4 2AU

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  24 August 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 August 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £26,824.00 - £29,064.00 Annually (FTE)

Attendance Officer job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic team player to to support the Attendance and Admissions Manager, through the collection, recording and reporting of student absence data in accordance with the current policies of the school.

To support the Attendance and Admissions Manager by monitoring and responding to student absences.

Main duties and responsibilities

Produce letters to parents in response to absences

Prepopulate referral forms

Update the Bromcom databases with information from registers, voicemails, emails and texts in relation to absences

Liaise with families via various means regarding attendnace

Arrange, attend and type minutes taken from meetings and distribute to relevant staff

Produce posters encouraging attendance and update noticeboards

Updating spreadsheets with detailed information about the recorded absences

Liaise with outside agencies regarding meetings and fixed penalty notices

Scan and file confidential paperwork in line with GDPR requirements

Contact key stakeholders to clarify student absences, ensuring that all phone calls are completed as early as possible on a daily basis

Use the MIS to communicate with parents, carers and colleagues

Ensure all safeguarding information is recorded and passed to and escalated with relevant colleagues

Ensure all registers and completed, check and correct on a daily basis

Such other duties as may be compatible with the nature of the post, as reasonably requested by the Headteacher

These duties and responsibilities should be regarded as neither exhaustive nor exclusive as the post holder may be required to undertake other reasonably determined duties and responsibilities commensurate with the grading of the post.

Please note that we reserve the right to close the recruitment campaign early subject to the volume of applications received. We therefore encourage candidates to submit applications as early as possible.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Oxford Spires Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1351 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Oxford Spires Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oxford-spires-academy

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