Attendance Officer
The Windsor Boys' School, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 5EH9 days remaining to apply
Closing date
21 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,937.00 - £28,136.00 Annually (Actual) Salary: Scale 5, Point 12-17 FTE £29,789 - £32,315 / actual £25,937 - £28,136 - Negotiable, based on experience. Monday to Friday 08:00-16:00, term time only plus 1 week
Attendance Officer job summary
The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal and administrative skills with a keen eye for detail. The role has key responsibility for helping improve school attendance and promoting positive attitudes to ensure that parents meet their statutory responsibilities.
The Windsor Boys’ School is a popular all-boys 13-18 comprehensive school with strong links to the community and beyond. The school has a very positive working environment in a distinctly inclusive way, with an excellent academic record, enthusiastic students and hardworking, committed colleagues.
The Windsor Boys’ School is part of Windsor Learning Partnership, a Multi Academy Trust specifically for schools in the Windsor area. Our purpose and commitment is to provide an exceptional education for all young people in our community, from early years to young adulthood. Central to WLP’s work will always be the teaching and support staff at our schools.
All schools within the Windsor Learning Partnership are committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service. CVs will not be accepted in place of an application form.
If you are interested in applying for this position, please access the school’s website where further information can be found: www.twbs.co.uk or alternatively email Mrs Jo Howarth at jhowarth@twbs.co.uk
The closing date for this position is Friday 21st March with interviews being held week commencing 24th March 2025.
ATTENDANCE OFFICEER
JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB TITLE: Attendance Officer
RESPONSIBLE TO: Assistant Headteacher
LIAISON WITH: Teaching staff, associate staff, parents, students, external agencies
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To contribute to raising achievement by improving school attendance
To assist the school in meeting their obligations and targets in relation to school attendance, especially persistent and severe absence.
To promote positive attitudes by students and families towards education and to ensure that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities.
To engage with families, including home visits, to assess the reasons impacting on the attendance of individual students (such as ERSA), facilitating their return or access to regular full time education provision.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To input on strategies to promote the regular and punctual attendance of all students and assist with the implementation of the strategies.
To meet with school staff, students and parents to identify individual problems and possible solutions.
To engage with parents in response to allocated referrals i.e. home visits and /or meetings in school.
To establish the reason for non attendance, make recommendations under the direction of the Assistant Headteacher and agree a plan for facilitating a return to school using appropriate strategies within specified timescales.
To liaise with Education Welfare Service (EWS) under the direction of the Assistant Headteacher to ensure the school is carrying out its statutory responsibility in respect of students’ attendance.
To liaise and work with other members of EWS as well as other professionals in police, Social Services, Housing , Health and any other statutory and voluntary organisations as appropriate.
To keep clear and concise records of all consultations and to write any other reports
i.e. annual action plan and summaries, as required for the school.
To use IT systems to produce reports, often to tight timescales, using word processing and record information including statistical data, providing reports to senior managers and other professionals.
To manage and prioritise workload in line with service requirements.
To acquire and maintain a working knowledge of the statutory framework relating to school attendance, child employment, child protection and special needs in order to be able to offer informed advice to parents, school staff, governors and others.
To support the Pastoral Team and Pupil Services in advising the school on matters relating to attendance and where necessary take the lead role in developing strategies to improve school attendance.
To work on and contribute to initiatives which raise the awareness of school staff, parents and the community on the importance of school attendance.
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Adaptable, imaginative, creative and flexible in approach to the work
Self motivating and the ability to identify your own training needs and a willingness to attend relevant training courses or other training
Prepared to attend meetings outside of office hours
Promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young and vulnerable people that you are responsible for or come into contact with.
To comply with individual responsibilities, in accordance with the role, for health and safety in the workplace.
Ensure that all duties and services provided are in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities Policy.
The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
To ensure compliance of Data Protection at all times.
The duties above are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the post holder may be required by the Headteacher to carry out appropriate duties within the context of the job, skills and grade.
Commitment to safeguarding
Windsor Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks along with other relevant employment checks. CVs will not be accepted in place of an application form.
If you are interested in applying for this position please access the school’s website where further information can be found: www.twbs.co.uk or alternatively email Mrs Howarth at jhowarth@twbs.co.uk
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.
About The Windsor Boys' School
- School type
- Academy, ages 13 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 966 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 13 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Windsor Boys' School website
The Windsor Boys' School is a 13-19 boys' school which seeks to retain the best of a traditional ethos based upon over 100 years of achievement, with a modern, forward- thinking approach that prepares young men for success in the 21st century.
We provide our students with a variety of challenging opportunities for learning, development and growth. They will learn that personal and social development involves taking responsibility not only for themselves, but also for all those around them. Our success will be measured both by first-class examination results and also the extent to which we provide an environment in which students are happy and can flourish.
To achieve this, we aim to be a school where:
• every student has the opportunity to reach his full potential through lessons that are academically challenging and engaging;
• there is an enthusiasm for learning, an encouragement of effort and a celebration of success;
• fairness, hard work and discipline are respected by all;
• there is outstanding provision for extra-curricular activities;
• students feel valued and are an active member of the community;
• students are well-equipped for life in a diverse and changing society.
Our curriculum is broad and balanced offering learning across the full range of subjects, and personalised appropriately to meet individual needs. Although there is a large core of traditional subjects on offer, we deliver high quality STEM pathways and vocational qualifications too. The school delivers a very positive value added score and the core subjects are consistently above average for pupil progress: the school’s progress 8 measurement is very strong and places us significantly above average for boys’ progress nationally. Students’ attainment and progress in mathematics and in other subjects at GCSE is outstanding, which is quite an achievement considering the school has a comprehensive intake.
At A level a very wide range of academic and vocational subjects are successfully delivered. There have always been high rates of university entrance. This is now the school of choice for many in the area both for achieving academic success and for its famous sporting prowess.
The school places great emphasis on developing the quality of teaching and increasing standards for learning. All teachers contribute to real action research as part of their professional development and often work across subject teams. For newly qualified teachers there is a strong programme of support from mentors and team leaders, as well as timetabled training sessions. For aspiring leaders we run programmes to enable them to experience middle leadership and senior leadership and gain appropriate qualifications. The school has a long history of working with GTPs and we are now a lead provider for Schools Direct.
Our high quality co-curricular provision provides tremendous opportunities for all, especially in the arts and in sport, as well as a wide range of more specialised activities, like a physics society, debating club and Duke of Edinburgh awards. Students represent the school at national and international level. The school is famous for sport and, above all, rowing. The school has a boat house on the nearby Thames and our under 18s have achieved tremendous success in recent years. Football has also seen real growth, culminating in the U16 team winning the national school’s FA cup. Similarly our rugby teams play against the major public schools and tour to Australia and Canada. Athletics, hockey, squash and cricket are also strong. We have a sports pavilion, extensive playing fields including a large AstroTurf pitch, and tennis courts.
The school is also a specialist arts college and consistently gains the Artsmark Gold award. Drama is famously good and ambitious often collaborating with girls from Windsor Girls' School. There is an excellent drama studio and a performing arts studio. Imaginative cross-curricular work in a languages and drama collaboration has been praised by Ofsted. Music is formidable – we have every kind of instrumental tuition and bands including a full orchestra, jazz band, close harmony singers and a strong choir that has performed at the Albert Hall. Our very successful band, famous for playing for the Queen, enjoyed a first in playing at the International Network of School Leaders in Beijing.
We have high expectations of student behaviour and expect good working relationships between teacher and student. The behaviour of pupils in the school is genuinely good and the atmosphere is relaxed and civilized - boys look you in the face and smile at their teachers. The strong professional relationship between teachers and pupils creates a safe learning environment which enables students to be successful in their learning.
The school was last inspected by Ofsted in May 2023 and was given a resounding ‘good’ judgement.
The school is a founding member of The Windsor Learning Partnership and is an academy in a multi academy trust with Windsor Girls’ School, and other local schools. Plans to expand further will afford many opportunities for staff and students alike and shape the next stage of the school’s development.
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