Attendance Officer
Severndale Specialist Academy, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY2 5SH12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
25 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week Monday to Thursday 08:30-16:30 and Friday 08:30-16:00, Term-time plus one week (PD Days).
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Scale 5, Point 13 with a progression scale to Point 17
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are currently seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, dedicated and efficient Attendance Officer to join Severndale Specialist Academy. The purpose of this post is to ensure the accuracy of registers in line with the Attendance policy and safeguarding procedures. The successful candidate will have an absolute commitment to working closely with the Lead DSL and wider DSL team to promote, review and monitor all aspects of student attendance. The successful candidate will also have a high regard for confidentiality, an ability to show initiative, and be able to demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail in their work. If you are an efficient administrator who can communicate effectively with students, families and staff in a supportive and calm way, we want to hear from you!
Skills required:
•Good interpersonal skills and the ability to speak positively and confidently to parents and carers on the telephone.
•Ability to follow set procedures to meet legal requirements of some attendance processes.
•Able to respond well to periods of pressure.
•A friendly and welcoming nature.
•Willingness to be trained and acquire new skills.
•Comprehensive and contemporaneous record keeping is essential, and you will therefore require good IT skills.
What the school offers its staff
- Permanent contract
- Salary range scale: Scale 5, Point 13 with a progression scale to Point 17
- Hourly Rate £14.60 - £15.58 (April 2025 pay award pending)
- The hours of work are: 37 hours per week Monday to Thursday 08:30-16:30 and Friday 08:30-16:00.
- Term-time plus one week (PD Days).
- Access to the School Advisory Service
- Bike to Work scheme
- Continuing Professional Development
- Local Authority Pension Scheme
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@severndaleacademy.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Severndale Specialist Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Severndale Specialist Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@severndaleacademy.co.uk
Severndale Specialist Academy:
Severndale Specialist Academy is a multi-site special school incorporating our Monkmoor campus, provision within a local mainstream secondary school and a purpose built 16-25 year old provision at our local college. We work with young people with special educational needs from within Shropshire and beyond. Our children and young people can access Severndale Specialist Academy from nursery age through to 25 and have a range of learning, physical and mobility difficulties and some students require personal care. Supporting communication and enabling independence is a key focus of our work .
Severndale is a truly unique special school and is one of the largest special schools in the country. We are proud to be able to meet the needs of over 430 young people across all abilities of the SEND spectrum and across three different sites. Severndale is also proud to be part of The Learning Community Trust, a truly inclusive multi academy trust based in Telford.
Arranging a visit to Severndale Specialist Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@severndaleacademy.co.uk.
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