Attendance Officer

Whitegate Primary and Nursery School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG11 9JQ

6 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  11 March 2026

• Closing date

  18 March 2026 at 5pm

• Date listed

  11 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,579.88- £20,495.79

Attendance Officer job summary

Attendance and Safeguarding Officer

Required from

Part time 27.5 hours per week

Term time only

Permanent

Salary Grade E point 13-19 (£29,064-£32,061 FTE per annum)

                                             £ 18,579.88- £20,495.79 Actual Salary per annum



Whitegate Primary and Nursery School and Highbank Primary and Nursery School are seeking to appoint a dedicated, resilient and caring professional to provide support and guidance to our pupils to ensure they reach their full potential.

 

The Attendance and Safeguarding Support Officer will work alongside key school staff and multi agencies within the Local Authority to reduce the risk of harm to pupils and to improve their attendance. They will take a supporting role within Safeguarding processes at the school and a lead role in implementing the attendance procedures.

·       Improve levels of attendance for all pupils

·       Reduce student absence and to engage with families to support them to ensure they fulfil their legal responsibilities.

·       Promote a positive attendance and punctuality culture at the school.

·       Play a vital role in the safeguarding of all pupils.

·       Act as Designated Senior Person for the school, attending multi-agency meetings as required.

·       To work with vulnerable children.

·       We warmly welcome applications from those who are passionate about making a real difference to the lives of children and thrives on challenging themselves and others to keep on improving. Our working relationships are positive, supportive and forward looking. 

 

You will:

·       Knowledge of safeguarding procedures and protocols.

·       Knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice and legislation in relation to education and        child welfare/protection

·       An understanding of inclusion within formal/informal settings.

·       Be able to identify barriers to learning for individual children and provide them with a range of strategies for overcoming these barriers.

·       Work effectively with a range of partners including class teachers, SENCOs and senior leaders in order to address the needs of individual children.

·       Be aware and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to the appropriate person.

 

In return we offer:

•                A collaborative and supportive team of talented professionals.

•                A commitment to professional development opportunities in order to enhance your ability to develop and improve provision.

•                The opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable children.

•                Motivated, friendly and hardworking children.

•                A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven

•                towards continuously raising standards.

•                Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives

•                Calm and purposeful learning environments

•                Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community

•                A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school

•                Career opportunities as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust

Or Visits to our school are warmly welcomed, please contact the school office to arrange an appointment.

How to apply

 

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer and as such anyone who is registered disabled and meets the essential person specification criteria will be shortlisted for interview.

 

Please complete the online application form which you will find on the Transform Trust website https://recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Trust/transformtrust Please ensure that you follow the instructions within the application form and ensure that there are no gaps in your education or employment history that are not accounted for.

Any questions or queries should be directed to Lee Noble , Executive Head. at Whitegate Primary and Nursery School, Middlefell way, Clifton, Nottingham, NG11 9JQ Email: admin@whitegate.nottingham.sch.uk Telephone: 01159152944

Closing date for applications : Wednesday 18th March – 5pm

Interviews will be held on: Wednesday 25th March

 

Transform Trust is a Multi Academy Trust with over 9300 children in 26 Primary Schools covering Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Derby and Derbyshire. Joining us, you will be part of an ambitious and innovative organisation. We have a strong focus on empowering our member schools to drive their improvement journey whilst maintaining their own individual identity and community focus.

We believe education has the power to transform lives and communities. Our purpose is to be an innovative and inclusive Trust working for all children.

We are an employer that encourages flexible working and promotes wellbeing through workload considerations.

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

Transform Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment procedures and pre-employment background checks, including satisfactory references, medical, Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list clearance, online and social media checks and completion of relevant safeguarding training including Safeguarding Children in Education
All school roles are classed as regulated activity and as such, it is an offence to apply to for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children

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 Whitegate Primary and Nursery School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 448 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Whitegate Primary and Nursery School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/whitegate-primary-and-nursery-school

At Whitegate we are proud to be an inclusive school providing a high quality, creative and challenging education. Every child experiences a sense of enjoyment and achieves their full potential within a secure, caring and happy environment.

In short, every child that attends Whitegate will...
Enjoy, Achieve, Excel

Our Aims
The following 3 statements underpin everything that the school does:

A relentless focus on high standards.
There are NO BARRIERS or EXCUSES to great learning or achievement.
The street stops at the gate.

The driving force behind all that happens at Whitegate Primary and Nursery School is the shared aim of every child enjoying access to a stimulating and engaging education, developing both academically and socially and leaving us as life long, independent learners, who are prepared to play a positive role in society.

Whitegate Primary and Nursery School has a culture of high aspiration and expectation for each and every child, which enables our children to acquire knowledge, understanding and develop learning throughout the school. We are a school that strives to work in partnership with parents and families. We are open and transparent and we share information. We strive to create a learning community that extends beyond the perimeter of our site. We do everything we can to support families for the benefit of their children.

We aim to fully develop any interests or talents that our children have, through the provision of a broad curriculum which values all subjects, the Arts and Sports. We will aim to provide as many enrichment activities and activity clubs for pupils as we can.

We recognise that bullying can happen in any setting and have a zero tolerance approach to this. We have a clear Positive Relationships and Behaviour Policy that includes Anti-Bullying to which all staff and pupils sign up. Targets of bullying will be listened to and the behaviour of the bully will be addressed.

We maintain a Values Education Policy to underpin the above.

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