Attendance Officer
Solihull Sixth Form College, Solihull, West Midlands, B91 3WRThis job expired on 5 June 2023
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
5 June 2023 at 9am
Date listed
15 May 2023
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time / Term Time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £21,028
What skills and experience we're looking for
Role Purpose:
- Work with teachers and other staff to ensure accurate and timely reporting of attendance
- Contact students and parents to establish the reasons for non-attendance / poor punctuality
- Meet regularly with students where there are concerns relating to attendance and / or punctuality
- Follow and utilise the college’s behaviour policy to support and challenge students with low levels of attendance
- Keep accurate, clear and concise records of all interventions and communications and update information on the college’s MIS system
- Liaise with the academic coaching team and advise on all matters relating to attendance, agree plans with appropriate strategies and timescales to tackle the issues
- Liaise with college staff to ensure accurate recording of information relating to attendance and punctuality
- Liaise with Educational Welfare Officers contracted to work with the college
- Update and maintain college records and disseminate information, in a timely fashion
- Be fully aware of and carry out all work in line with Child Protection /Safeguarding Procedures
- Maintain a good working knowledge of the statutory framework and any policies and procedures relating to college attendance, child protection and special needs etc. in order to be able to offer informed advice to parents, college staff and others
General Duties
- Undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this job
- Undertake health and safety duties commensurate with the post and/or as detailed in the school health and safety policy
- Work in accordance with all of the college’s policies and procedures.
- To take part in the college Professional development and performance review scheme
What the school offers its staff
Summit Learning Trust Mission Statement
Success through Endeavour
Ambition through Challenge
Strength through Diversity
Join our friendly, thriving and supportive staff here at Solihull Sixth Form College. We aspire to be outstanding professionally and personally, taking time to invest in everything we do, to develop transformative life chances for all of our students and to stretch their potential to the full.
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 Solihull Sixth Form College
- School type
- Academy, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Sixth form and collegejobs
- School size
- 0 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Solihull Sixth Form College website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- solihullsixthformhr@summitlearningtrust.org.uk
Join our friendly, thriving and supportive staff here at Solihull Sixth Form college. We aspire to be outstanding professionally and personally, taking time to invest in everything we do, to develop transformative life chances for all of our students and to stretch their potential to the full.
Solihull Sixth Form College is a large, culturally diverse specialist in A Levels and Level 3 BTEC qualifications, and part of the Summit Learning Trust
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