Attendance & Safeguarding Officer
Zaytouna Primary School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE24 8WHThis job expired on 9 June 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 July 2025
Closing date
9 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
21 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Actual salary £25,465-£28,091 PA
Attendance & Safeguarding Officer job summary
Attendance and Safeguarding Officer
Required from 1st July 2025
Full time, 37 hours a week, term time + 2 weeks
Permanent
Salary Grade E point 13-19 (£28,163-£31,067 FTE per annum)
Actual salary £25,465-£28,091
Zaytouna Primary School is seeking to appoint a dedicated, resilient and caring professional to provide support and guidance to our pupils to ensure they reach their full potential.
Our attendance and safeguarding 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.
The successful applicant will take a supportive 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 barrier
• 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
Closing date: Monday 9th June 12 noon
Interviews: Monday 16th June
Further information about the job
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.
About Zaytouna Primary School
- School type
- Free School, Muslim, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 421 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Zaytouna Primary School website
We are an exciting and happy school community who are committed to #DoingThingsDifferently. From our curriculum to our enrichment offer, our approach to professional development to our partnerships with the local community, we’re striving for innovation and excellence. We believe that school should develop a child’s mind, body and soul. This drives every decision that we make and we’re proud that we are able to offer this entitlement to all of our children. It’s what we care passionately about. We also know that to fulfil this, we need to ensure that mental and physical health and wellbeing is at our core. For our children and our adults. You’ll see this reflected in everything that we do.
We’re proud to be a school of Islamic distinctiveness – you’ll see that our QIS offer enriches our children to be the best versions of themselves. It’s what makes our school a genuine family community. This together with our comprehensive development of our core British Values means that our children are being well supported to become informed, critical thinkers of the future.
We are ambitious and unapologetic about what we do at Zaytouna. It’s based on what we believe to be important and on the future that we want for ourselves and our children. We make sure however that we have as much fun as we can along the way!
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