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Attendance Officer

Wey Valley Academy, Weymouth, Dorset, DT3 5AN

This job expired on 18 May 2026 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  18 May 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  15 April 2026

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: £22,154.00 - £23,233.00 Annually (Actual) 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year - Term time only.

Attendance Officer job summary

Wey Valley Academy has an opening for an Attendance Officer. You will be highly organised, confident and self-motivated and become part of the school pastoral team. The role is important in ensuring all students are able to fulfil their potential through regular school attendance.

The role of School Attendance Officer is an important one in ensuring all students are able to fulfil their potential through regular school attendance. Through your work you will be responsible for liaising between home, school, and other agencies in order for students to maintain a consistent level of education. You will be responsible for monitoring registers, verifying reasons for absence, and identifying cases of non-attendance that require further investigation. Working closely with stakeholders you will use your own drive and initiative to help the school to raise achievement by improving attendance and punctuality and to meet our attendance target.

This is a term time only role, with all school holidays off.

We can offer extensive opportunities for career development and training. You would be joining an innovative, professional, and enthusiastic team within a very successful school. Wey Valley Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any offer of employment is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with Government Safer Recruitment guidelines.

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

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 Wey Valley Academy

• School type: Academies, Does not apply, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 996 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Wey Valley Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wey-valley-academy-weymouth

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