Attendance Support Officer
Grace College, Gateshead, NE9 6LEThis job expired on 17 February 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
17 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
7 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,905.00 - £32,160.00 Annually (Actual) SCP 18 to SCP 28 37 hours per week Term Time Plus 3 days
Attendance Support Officer job summary
Attendance Support Officer, 37 hpw, Mon-Fri, term time plus 3 days, two posts.
Grace College is a place of boundless potential and we are seeking enthusiastic and proactive individuals to help support our students in achieving excellent attendance and becoming successful learners. This is a wonderful opportunity to join our school and engage with students and their families to positively influence and improve attendance.
As an Attendance Support Officer, you will be responsible to Senior Attendance Lead for:
Supporting the College to raise achievement by improving punctuality and attendance to school, with an emphasis on:
carrying out morning duty in the community to ensure students arrive promptly to school.
from 9.30am carrying out home visits to students who are absent, as directed by the Senior Attendance Lead. This will focus on students who are absent without contact and carrying out welfare checks on those who are absent regularly.
supporting students to come into school even when they have not arrived on time by providing transport into school, utilising the company vehicles to do so.
Promote positive attitudes towards school with families and students with an emphasis on:
working with families and students to identify barriers to attendance, primarily through home visits and some meetings arranged in school.
recognising improved attendance by remaining in regular communication with students and their families regarding their attendance.
working with external agencies where appropriate to provide additional support to families where this may improve attendance to school.
Promote the welfare and safeguarding of all students with an emphasis on:
keeping accurate, clear and concise records of all interventions and meetings and update information on the school systems.
maintaining a good working knowledge of the statutory framework and any policies and procedures relating to school attendance, child employment, child protection and special needs etc. in order to be able to offer informed advice to families.
being fully aware of and carrying out all work in line with the Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy.
Please refer to the full Job Description for more details.
Join us, and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:
- Defined benefit pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
- Daily lunch allowance
- Free parking
- Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
- Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website.
About Grace College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1190 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Grace College website
As an 11-19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our Christian ethos. We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development. We have a clear model for school improvement to provide outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy, as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.
We are committed to realising the potential of our students and staff alike. Our hope and expectation are that each person will be deeply valued as infinitely precious, challenged to grow in character and inspired by learning together to achieve their personal best in whatever they do.
Join us and you can expect to be nurtured, supported, and encouraged at every step of your career. We put staff professional learning and development front and centre of everything we do in our partnerships with outstanding regional and national organisations. Ultimately, we are looking for the school leaders of tomorrow who will contribute here at Grace College and across the Emmanuel Schools Foundation.
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