Attendance Officer

St Joseph's Catholic School, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 1QY

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  October 2025

• Closing date

  19 September 2025 at 1pm

• Date listed

  5 September 2025

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: Grade F, 37 hours per week, term time only
• Additional allowances:

  Grade F, 37 hours per week, term time only

Attendance Officer job summary

St Joseph's Catholic School

"With God's love and inspiration, we aspire to achieve excellence"

Job Title: Attendance Officer

Responsible to: Deputy Head (Pastoral)

Contract: Permanent

Start Date: October 2025

St Joseph's Catholic School is looking to appoint a professional, highly efficient and detail-oriented individual to join our pastoral team.

Key responsibilities:

Monitor daily attendance, maintain accurate records, and follow up on absences through first-day calling and parent communication.

Identify and track attendance concerns, producing reports and data analysis to support early intervention strategies.

Lead School Attendance Meetings (SAMs) and liaise closely with the Pastoral Team, Heads of Year, and external agencies.

Support safeguarding efforts by escalating concerns and ensuring accurate logging on systems such as SIMS, CPOMs, and ClassCharts.

Work with families to improve attendance, offering advice and strategies, and accessing Early Help or Educational Welfare Services where appropriate.

Maintain up-to-date knowledge through training and contribute to the school’s attendance audit and action plan.

Promote a culture of high attendance and pupil well-being, especially for vulnerable groups.This role requires excellent communication, organisational skills, and a strong understanding of safeguarding and attendance frameworks.

About us

St Joseph’s is a co-educational, 11-16 Catholic voluntary-aided school in the diocese of Clifton and the county of Wiltshire. Our aim is to provide a caring educational environment where each person is valued and is given the dignity due to a child of God.

Everyone in our school is here for a purpose, to learn each day and to widen their knowledge, experience and imaginative understanding.

What we can offer you

• A supportive, driven and highly committed governing body and teaching and support staff
• Students who are enthusiastic and keen to learn
• CPD programme and ongoing professional development of the highest standard
• Free onsite parking
• Discounted gym membership
• Local Authority Healthcare Cashplan - cover towards optical and dental, private consultations and therapy appointmentsAccess to discount scheme that includes over 300 stores
• Cycle to Work Scheme - allows eligible staff to purchase a bike/safety equipment. You do not pay income tax or national insurance contribution on the part of your salary which is “sacrificed” to pay for the bike or childcare vouchers.

Find out more and apply

You can find out more about this role and St Joseph's Catholic School by downloading our recruitment pack.

We actively encourage and welcome visits to our school prior to application. Please contact Mrs K Snell our HR Officer on ksn@sjcs.org.uk or 01722 335380.

Please complete our online application via MyNewTerm. CV's will not be accepted:

Closing date: Friday 19th September 2025

Interview date: TBC

Start Date: October 2025

*We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high number of applications.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. All new staff within the school will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

The school has a designated senior member of the leadership team who is responsible for referring and monitoring any suspected case of abuse. All members of staff will receive training in line with our Child Protection policies.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About St Joseph's Catholic School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 597 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Joseph's Catholic School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-joseph-s-catholic-school

St Joseph’s is a smaller than average school. The warm and welcoming atmosphere is matched by a strong focus on pupil progress and hence improving their life chances.

Our reputation within the community, following year on year improvements in results has resulted in us becoming oversubscribed and a school of choice for many parents.

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