Attendance Officer

Winterstoke Hundred Academy, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, BS24 8EE

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  3 September 2026

• Closing date

  16 June 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  2 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £27,362 - £29,850

Attendance Officer job summary

Job Title: Attendance Officer

Actual Starting Salary: £27,362 - £29,850 Based on Term Time only plus inset days.

Full Time Equivalent Salary: £31,954 - £34,860 (CLF Grade D) Based on Full Time hours, All year round.

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week  

Provisional Start date: 3 September 2026

Do you believe that excellent school attendance is vital to unlocking students’ potential and ensuring they thrive in their educational journey?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Attendance Officer to join our team at Winterstoke Hundred Academy. We are seeking individuals with a strong understanding of the barriers to attendance, excellent organisational skills, and the confidence to build positive relationships with students, families, and external partners. You will play a key role in promoting a positive culture of attendance and maintaining accurate, statutory attendance records in line with academy policy and legislation. The attached job description and person specification provide full details of the responsibilities and expectations.

The Attendance Officers will work closely with parents and carers to improve attendance outcomes, ensuring pupils are supported, monitored, and encouraged to engage fully with academy life. You will take a proactive approach; identifying concerns early, implementing interventions, and contributing to an inclusive, supportive environment for all students.

About you:

You will have:

• Good literacy and numeracy skills, evidenced by GCSE Maths and English or equivalent qualifications or experience.
  
• An understanding of the wide range of issues that can impact a young person’s attendance and a willingness to stay informed of developments in this area.
  
• A good understanding of safeguarding within an educational setting or transferable safeguarding experience.
  
• Strong administrative experience, including maintaining accurate records, following processes, handling sensitive information, and working to strict deadlines.
  
• Excellent ICT skills, including the ability to analyse data, input information accurately, and produce high‑quality reports and statistics.
  
• The ability to build strong, professional relationships with students, parents/carers, academy staff, and external agencies.
  
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to manage challenging or sensitive conversations professionally.
  
• The ability to work both independently and collaboratively to achieve attendance targets and improve outcomes for pupils.
  
• Full, clean driving licence with daily access to a vehicle and willingness to obtain business insurance.
  

About Winterstoke Hundred Academy:  

Winterstoke Hundred Academy is named after the historic parish of Weston-super-Mare and launched as a new 11-19 Academy in September 2020, admitting pupils for the first time in that year into Year 7 and Year 12. The academy is growing year by year, and we have been very pleased that our incoming cohorts in Year 7 have been oversubscribed in consecutive years, while our post-16 applications also show significant growth. We recently opened a state-of-the-art, net-zero building at Locking Parklands for Years 7-11, with post-16 education continuing at the original Beaufighter Road site.  

Why work at CLF? 

We are a diverse and inclusive community of 36 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters. Over 59% of the students who attend John Cabot Academy are from global majority groups, so we particularly encourage applicants from those groups in order to represent the students we serve, as well as wider underrepresented groups including gender, transgender, age disability, sexual orientation or religion.

We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

What we can offer you: 

• Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).  
  
• Generous annual leave. 
  
• A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.  
  
• Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.  
  
• Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.  
  
• A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.  
  
• Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more! 
  

Recruitment timeline:  

Closing Date: 16 June 2026

Shortlisting: 17 June 2026

Interviews: 23 June 2026

We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment. 

As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.  

Please note we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out. 

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to equity and inclusion and commit to interviewing applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. We aim to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and support employees throughout their employment. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process please let us know how we can assist.

  

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.

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 Winterstoke Hundred Academy

• School type: Free Schools, None, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 829 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Winterstoke Hundred Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/winterstoke-hundred-academy

Winterstoke Hundred Academy (WHA) is named after the historic parish of Weston-super-Mare. We are a smaller scaler 11-19 academy, offering a curriculum which celebrates prior learning whilst preparing learners for the challenges of the future. We work closely with our family of partner schools in the Trust, and believe strongly in the importance and benefits of collaboration. Winterstoke Hundred has benefited from funding which has enabled an entirely bespoke and brand new additional site to be built less than a mile away, in Locking Parklands. This will open between 2023 and 2024, and will enable the strengths of each site to be enjoyed by all students. This is a particularly exciting time for WHA - as a new academy, in new buildings, and with new students, we are seizing the opportunity to shape the landscape for our learners, to deliver an exceptional educational experience, and to enable them to fulfil their potential.

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