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This job expired on 6 December 2024

  • Start date details

    January 2025

  • Closing date

    6 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    25 November 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Pastoral, health and welfare

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£31,364.00 - £34,812.00 Annually (Actual) NJC 23-27 £33,366 -£37035

Attendance Officer & Personal coach job summary

EBN Academy is an Alternative Provision Free School in Birmingham. The Academy serves students between the ages of 13-16 years for whom mainstream school has not met their individual needs. Students are referred to the Academy for a wide range of reasons including disengagement from mainstream education, additional needs not being met fully by mainstream school, a lack of suitable places in a local area and issues around peer relationships and attendance.EBN Academy ’s ambition for every young person is to help them achieve the best possible academic, personal/social and aspirational outcomes possible. We are committed to inclusion, the removal of barriers to progress and the highest standards in teaching and learning.

The EBN Academy Trust is part of the East Birmingham Partnership of Secondary Schools and Academies. This group collaborates on a range of and pupil support areas including behaviour and attendance and post-16 provision. EBN Academy 2 has students places commissioned from a wide range of secondary schools across Birmingham and Solihull with a number of places also commissioned from further afield.

We are seeking to appoint a meticulous Attendance Office & Personal Coach to assist the school in meeting their obligations in relation to attendance. Alongside taking on the normal personal coaching role within the Academy, the successful applicant will establish and develop a specialist service within the wider pastoral team and advise on all matters relating to attendance and where necessary take a lead role in developing work processes to improve the reporting of school attendance. The role will include updating school records, analysing attendance data and providing reports to senior managers and other professionals, disseminating information, both internally and externally in a timely fashion. Working in a very busy environment, you will need to be flexible and able to work under pressure, with excellent interpersonal skills. Priorities include tracking, monitoring and challenging student attendance in collaboration with colleagues from within the school and our partner agencies.

The successful applicant should be energetic, enthusiastic, self-motivated, exceptionally well organised, be able to work under pressure and have a high level of personal drive together with relevant experience.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates, with a real commitment to working with young people in a school setting and striving to make a real difference to their life chances, to join a team of skilled professionals.

Job Role – key elements:

Supporting and mentoring student in relation to improving attendance

Developing rapport with staff and students

Providing academic and pastoral support in the role of personal coach

Taking part in whole school activities

  • Providing learning support to the pupils that need it most
  • Promoting the pupils’ educational, emotional, and social development
  • Leading activities to promote pupil engagement
  • Employing and adapting various teaching strategies to suit the needs of the children

Ideally, you will:

Have experience working with challenging behaviour

Be dedicated to making a difference to young people

Have experience with the Key Stage 3 & 4 curriculum

Be able to support young people to make the rights choices

We will offer you

A friendly and supportive team

Local Government Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work scheme

Voluntary private health care plans

A Chance to make a difference to young people in the East Birmingham area and beyond

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role”
How to apply


The application pack can be downloaded from our website

All applications to be returned to ldonohoe@ebnfs.org

www.ebnacademy.co.uk/vacancies

For further information please contact:

Laura Donohoe

Tel: 0121 272 7032. Email: ldonohoe@ebnfs.org

Salary range: SCP 23-27 Salary £33,366-£37,035 Actual Salary £31,364 - £34,812

This is a term time only + 3 weeks position. Your normal hours of work will

be 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Closing Date: Friday 6th December 2024 at 12 Noon

We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion. Only applications submitted on an application form will be considered. We do not accept CV’s only.

EBN Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all Staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.

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 East Birmingham Network Academy

School type
Free School, ages 13 to 16
School size
0 pupils enrolled
Age range
13 to 16

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