Attendance Support Officer

The Open Academy, Norwich, Norfolk, NR7 9DL

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  3 November 2025 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  13 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,494 - £26,570 actual pa

Attendance Support Officer job summary

Part of the Diocese of Norwich Education and Academies Trust

Tel: 01603 481670

Email: PAtothePrincipal@open-academy.org.uk

• Salary - Pay Points: 12-17, £24,494 - £26,570 actual pa (£28,598 - £31,022 FTE)
• Fixed Term until 31 August 2026 
• Full Time
• 37 hours per week 
• Term time plus 1 weeks per year
• Required ASAP

 

We are looking for a committed and enthusiastic individual to promote and apply intervention strategies to ensure high levels of attendance and punctuality to pupils within the academy. You will work closely with academy staff, parents, students, and outside agencies to promote the importance of regular attendance and support strategies for improvement.

This temporary post is part of a wider team responsible for attendance and will be for the remainder of the academic year in the first instance.   provide administrative support in all issues relating to raising standards of student attendance and punctuality.

Open Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Any offer of employment will be subject to relevant checks in line with Safer Recruitment and Safeguarding procedures.

Working Hours

The successful candidate will work Monday to Thursday 8.00 – 16.00 and Friday 8.00 – 15.30.

How to apply

For more information about this role, including the job description and person specification, please read the attached Recruitment Pack available from ‘Attachments’.

To complete our online application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button, and you will be directed to apply through our Applicant Tracking System. If you do not already have one, you will need to create a ‘Teacher Booker’ account.

References may be requested prior to interview and may be contacted on receipt of your application form. 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier if sufficient applications have been received.

Closing date:  3 November 2025, 9am

Interview date:  7 November 2025

DNEAT Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its children and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to full safeguarding checks as well as satisfactory references.

The Trust's safeguarding policy can be found on our website.

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. 

Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

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 Open Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 560 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Open Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-open-academy

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