Attendance Support Officer

The Cooper School, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26 4RS

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  2 February 2026 at 11am

• Date listed

  23 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,824.00 - £29,064.00 Annually (Actual) (Actual Salary £23,024.42)

Attendance Support Officer job summary

The Cooper School, Bicester are seeking an Attendance Support Officer, who will play a vital role in helping students thrive. This is a fixed term role and will be central to delivering our whole‑school attendance strategy, ensuring every young person feels supported, engaged and able to attend regularly. With a particular focus on students eligible for Pupil Premium and those with SEN needs, you will work closely with our Cover and Attendance Manager, Safeguarding team and Pastoral teams to remove barriers to attendance and promote a culture where every day in school matters.

You’ll build positive relationships with students and families, provide targeted support, monitor attendance patterns, and carry out essential follow‑up including welfare checks and home visits. Through collaboration with internal teams and external agencies, you’ll ensure the right support is in place at the right time.

This is a dynamic role that blends casework, communication, safeguarding awareness and data‑led decision‑making. You will champion good attendance across the school, contribute to reward initiatives, and help maintain effective attendance systems. Your work will make a measurable difference to student wellbeing, inclusion and educational outcomes.

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 The Cooper School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1228 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Cooper School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-cooper-school-bicester

At The Cooper School, we pride ourselves on being forward thinking in terms of curriculum decisions which support our students; focused on improving learning through the use of new technologies and determined to continuously refine our approaches to teaching and learning. Investing in the Media Suite reflects a small part of our approach to making learning engaging, relevant and active for our students.

Joining us as a member of staff at The Cooper School means being able to see the big picture for the students here. It means that whilst we always strive for academic excellence, we also place great value upon students becoming adaptable, resourceful and enquiring. These are the sort of skills that will enable them to become effective citizens, just as much as their academic results will. As such, we encourage independent learning, enrichment initiatives and House-based teamwork and co-operation.

Working here is an opportunity to flourish as a professional. We ‘grow our own’ leaders. Many new staff have taken on additional responsibilities which is a mark of their quality and commitment to making progress in their own careers as well as their desire to become part of a successful and positive organisation.

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