Attendance Officer
Weaverham High School, Northwich, Cheshire, CW8 3HT7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
7 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
24 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,404.00 - £25,183.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary for hours £11,381 to £12,010 per annum, 20 hours a week, 5 days a week Monday to Friday, 39 weeks a year.
Attendance Officer job summary
Attendance Officer
Daily
Liaise with staff absence colleague and complete the DFE attendance form
Investigate unexplained absences and contact home for necessary pupils.
Weekly
Create attendance reports including data for whole school, year groups and key cohorts. Send to Assistant Head, Deputy Head, SEND Co and Heads of Year and Pastoral Support Managers.
Two weeks
Hold an attendance meeting with each Pastoral Support Manager (PSM) and update spreadsheet with agreed courses of action and interventions. Ensure spreadsheet is sent to PSM.
Update medical evidence list following PSM meetings
Update first call list following PSM meetings
As needed
Respond to holiday requests as per Headteacher’s decision
Send holiday Fixed Penalty Notice requests to FPN team at CWAC
Investigate absences which may be due to unauthorised holiday and send out letter.
Send late letters as agreed with PSMs
Send attendance letters as agreed with PSMs (Students with 95% and 90% attendance)
Send medical evidence request letters as agreed with PSMs
Arrange attendance panels as agreed with PSM (book room/create Zoom, send invite to parents)
Complete Attendance Panel Action Plan following the panel and distribute to parents and PSM, add to SIMS
Arrange Attendance Review Meetings following the initial Attendance Panel and identify whether an improvement has been made alongside PSM.
In agreement with PSM, create and send out Parenting Contracts in cases of low attendance due to lack of parental engagement.
At 10+ unauthorised absence, refer to Educational Welfare Officer (EWO) for FPN Monitoring Period on agreement with PSM/HOY
Following unauthorised absence during an FPN Monitoring Period, refer the case to the EWO to proceed with the issue of an FPN. Complete checklists and provide official register.
In cases of entrenched absence with no improvement, refer to LA for Prosecution or Education Supervision Order with SLT agreement.
Arrange and attend Attendance Planning Meetings (Chaired by SLT) as a final meeting before court proceedings.
Liaise with EWO and prepare witness statement for use in court proceedings.
Attend CWAC Attendance Briefings and share best practice with other local schools.
Liaise with primary schools to prepare Year 6 pupils for attendance expectations in Year 7.
Complete an annual register inspection with the EWO to ensure all registers are being kept accurately.
All correspondence must be scanned to SIMS as evidence
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Weaverham High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1165 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Weaverham High School website (opens in new tab)
Our vision is clear, we want Weaverham High School to be a vibrant, thriving and successful school where every member of our community feels valued, safe and supported to ensure they surpass their potential. We celebrate uniqueness and see individuals. We understand that our pupils have hopes and dreams, challenges and barriers and it is our privilege to celebrate their worth and their potential. We want every child to enjoy their own journey of discovery, acquire a thirst for knowledge, creativity and imagination and develop a love for their learning. We want pupils to leave our school not just with qualifications showing their academic success, but also with the capacity to think clearly and deeply, a desire to act with integrity and to show kindness and empathy to others, and with the character and leadership experience they need to thrive in the world. We will work tirelessly to ensure individual barriers are overcome so pupils are challenged and supported in equal measure. Our desire is to nurture talent, ability and ambition with energy, creativity, determination, relentless kindness and high expectations. When we combine such a desire with our ethos of Safe.Ready.Respect you will thrive in our care.
We have a clear and ambitious vision for school improvement that is woven into the 6 strands that define the Weaverham offer. This offer is underpinned by an’ Ethic Of Excellence’ 5, where the following principles guide our strategy to ensure we are the best we can be:
Study examples of excellence
Build a culture of critique (be kind, be specific, be helpful/listen, reflect, review)
Require multiple revisions
Provide opportunities for public presentation
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