Attendance Officer
Sir John Hunt Community Sports College, Plymouth, Devon, PL5 4AA15 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
30 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
13 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Annual Hours: 1495.75 Weekly Hours: 38.75 Working Hours: 8.00am to 4.15pm (Monday to Friday) Weeks per year: 38 Additional Hours: 3 additional training days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade: E £29,093 (£25,825 pro rata)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Attendance Officer to join the team which leads on attendance management and monitoring systems within and across the school. Key priorities of the role will include the tracking of student attendance and co-ordination and implementation of strategies and support systems to facilitate improved attendance. Working with students, parents, staff and external multi agencies will form an integral part of the role.
You will be required to have experience of working in an educational and/or social care setting with young people. Current knowledge of legislation relating to school attendance would be an advantage.
The ideal candidate will also have an outstanding level of ICT skills including knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Power Point, mail merge and other ICT packages.
Qualifications
- Good level of literacy and numeracy
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Educated to GCSE (grade 4 or above, A* to C) level or equivalent including Maths and English
- NVQ level 3 or equivalent
Experience
- Experience of working in an educational and/or social care setting with young people.
- Experience of working within statutory/voluntary agencies dealing with children and families.
Knowledge & Understanding
- Demonstrate awareness of legislation relating to school attendance
- Demonstrate awareness of legislation relating to the welfare and protection of children
- Demonstrate an awareness of risk
- Understand the importance of safeguarding within a school environment
- Good level of ICT skills including knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Power Point, mail merge and other ICT packages.
- Knowledge of data protection and confidentiality procedures
- Knowledge of the education system
Skills
- Good organisational and good time keeping skills
- Ability to use own initiative and work within departmental protocols/procedures
- Good inter-personal skills including mediation and conflict resolution
- Excellent communication skills and effective communication with children, carers and other professionals
- Ability to display understanding of social/welfare issues as they affect children, families and schools
- Ability to maintain a professional manner in challenging situations
- Flexible approach to supporting children and families
- Confidence to challenge difficult behaviour
- Confidence to challenge other professionals
- Ability to speak confidently and professionally in a range of situations including leading meetings with key professionals
- Ability to work to tight deadlines under pressure
- Ability to prepare and write reports and produce factual and statistical information as required
- ICT literacy
Other
- Calm and patient when dealing with others
- Demonstrates accountability and ownership for own work duties and activities
- An ability to work within a team environment and be supportive of the overall team effort
- Demonstrates a ‘can do’ approach, self-motivation, ability to prioritise work and the ability to work autonomously
- Resourceful, patient and resilient
- Visiting families in their homes is a regular requirement
- Ability to travel to work and to different locations
- Flexibility in work pattern may be required occasionally
- Commitment to equal opportunities in service delivery and employment
- Enjoys working within education
- A friendly manner and good sense of humour
- Smart appearance
- Cares about students reaching their full potential
- A positive attitude to personal development and training
What the school offers its staff
SJH is an excellent school that has improved immensely in recent years and, as a result, has been oversubscribed for the last five years. Our ethos is for our students to strive ‘to greater heights’. This ethos is built on a core set of values, which underpins everything that we do. These are Ambition, Endeavour and Respect.
We offer a state-of-the-art College facility which is equipped with an entirely new IT infrastructure, including touch screens and visualisers in every classroom. We pride ourselves on managing the workload of staff by offering a disruption free learning environment, only three assessment points throughout the year, no lesson observations, no lesson planners and no book marking.
Non-teaching professionals at Sir John Hunt are key to supporting the educational and personal development needs of our students. We pride ourselves on developing both support and teaching staff, with dedicated training days to support their continued professional development.
Staff benefits include; Employee Assistance Programme, Free Onsite gym facilities, standard NJC Terms and Conditions including enhanced sick pay of up to 26 weeks full pay (after qualifying period) and eligibility to be part of the Local Government pension scheme (current employer contribution rate of 18.1%).
Commitment to safeguarding
Sir John Hunt CSC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; pre-employment checks will be carried out; references will be sought for all shortlisted candidates and all shortlisted candidates will be requested to complete a questionnaire about any convictions or adult cautions that are unspent. Guidance will be given to those shortlisted.
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About Sir John Hunt Community Sports College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 761 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sir John Hunt Community Sports College website
- Email address
- l.lemarquand@sjhcsc.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01752 201020
Sir John Hunt Community Sports College is at the heart of its community. At our College every student is valued and nurtured. We know all of our students as individuals ensuring they are happy at school, feel safe, enjoy learning, are challenged and make the best of their talents.
Arranging a visit to Sir John Hunt Community Sports College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email l.lemarquand@sjhcsc.co.uk.
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