Attendance & Safeguarding Officer

Ashbrook Junior School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE72 3HF

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  29 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £19,998-£22,060

Attendance & Safeguarding Officer job summary

Safeguarding and Attendance Officer (0.8 FTE)

Salary: GLPC-E13-19 £29,064 - £32,061 pro rata (actual salary £19,998-£22,060)

Contract: Permanent, 4 days per week (29.6 hours per week, term time only + inset days)

Location: Ashbrook Junior School. Victoria Avenue. Borrowash. Derbyshire.

Start date: January 2025 or earlier if possible

Join our caring school community

At Ashbrook Junior School, we believe that every child deserves to feel safe, valued and supported to achieve their very best. We are looking for a dedicated and compassionate

Safeguarding and Attendance Officer to join our team and play a key role in helping every child thrive.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a passion for pupil wellbeing, family support and community engagement. You will work closely with our Designated Safeguarding Lead, senior leaders and wider pastoral team to ensure our children’s safety, promote excellent attendance, and strengthen partnerships with families.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Monitoring and improving attendance across the school, following up absences promptly and supportively.
• Building strong, trusting relationships with families to help remove barriers to good attendance.
• Supporting the safeguarding team by managing and recording concerns in line with school policy.
• Liaising with external agencies and services to ensure families receive the right help at the right time.
• Contributing to early help and child protection processes as required.
• Promoting our school values through a nurturing and child-centred approach.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has experience working with children and families, ideally in a school or safeguarding context.
• Understands the importance of safeguarding and child protection in an educational setting.
• Can build positive relationships with pupils, parents, and colleagues based on empathy and respect.
• Has excellent organisational skills and a calm, professional approach to sensitive situations.
• Is committed to supporting every child to feel safe, happy and ready to learn.

We can offer you:

• A warm, welcoming and inclusive school community.
• Supportive colleagues who work closely as a team.
• A wider pastoral team including an ELSA practitioner and a school counsellor
• Ongoing professional development and safeguarding training.
• The opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of children and families.

How to apply

Please complete an application form on Transform Trust Vacancies Website https://recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Trust/transformtrust by Friday 12th December- midday.

Visits to our school are warmly welcomed — please contact Sam Whittaker (office manager) or Siobhan Dell (Head of School) to arrange a time to see our wonderful community in action on 01332 673785.

Ashbrook Junior School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and provide satisfactory references.

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 Ashbrook Junior School

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 173 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ashbrook Junior School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ashbrook-junior-school

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