Attendance Officer

Ringwood School Academy, Ringwood, Hampshire, BH24 1SE

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2025

• Closing date

  9 December 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  25 November 2024

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: £26,155.00 - £28,876.00 Annually (FTE) Salary will be pro rated to term time, plus inset days

Attendance Officer job summary

Attendance Officer

Full-Time, Term Time Only Plus inset days , 37 hours per week.

Support Staff Salary: Band D1- D5, depending on experience Pro Rata (FTE: £26,155-£28,876 pa)

Role Overview

To monitor and report on whole-school attendance data, analysing data to identify key areas of concern. To work closely with pupils, staff, parents and carers to reduce levels of absence, and act appropriately when persistent absence becomes a safeguarding issue.

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 the process of issuing penalty notices to parents
  
• Maintain accurate records of communications with parents/carers and relevant interventions
  

Monitoring and reporting

• Track attendance of vulnerable groups of pupils and share information with school leaders
  
• Identify pupils that need additional support to improve their attendance
  
• Implement children missing education (CME) procedures when appropriate
  
• Provide regular reports to attendance organisations to raise awareness of emerging at-risk pupils

Working with parents/carers

• 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
• Carry out home visits, where necessary, to address attendance concerns for individual pupils

Safeguarding

• Work in line with statutory safeguarding guidance (e.g. Keeping Children Safe in Education, Prevent) and our safeguarding and child protection policies
  
• Be alert to when persistent absence becomes a safeguarding concern and early help may be required
  
• Work with the designated safeguarding lead (DSL) to promote the best interests of pupils, including sharing concerns where necessary
  
• Promote the safeguarding of all pupils in the school
  

The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification, will be required to have an enhanced DBS check and will have applied via the School Website with an application through MyNewTerm. Ringwood School is committed to safeguarding students. We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Ringwood School Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1582 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Ringwood School Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ringwood-school-academy (opens in new tab)

A large thriving oversubscribed 11 - 18 Comprehensive situated in beautiful surroundings close to the New Forest and the Hampshire / Dorset coastline. As a Teaching School we pride ourselves in being able to provide high quality professional development opportunities for all staff.

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