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Medway Hub Maritime Attendance Officer
Maritime Academy Trust, Swanscombe, DA10 1ALThis job expired on 10 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
28th August 2025
Closing date
10 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
18 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £17,562.00 - £21,666.00 Annually (Actual) Medway C1 £17562.85 - £21666.41 (Actual)
Medway Hub Maritime Attendance Officer job summary
Exciting New Opportunity as our Medway Hub Maritime Attendance Officer
Hours: 30 hours per week, over 4 days Location: Across the Medway Hub (Barnsole, Bligh, Danecourt, Featherby Infants & Featherby Juniors)
Are you passionate about supporting children and families to overcome barriers to school attendance? Do you have the drive, empathy, and professionalism to make a real difference across a group of inclusive and ambitious schools? If so, we’d love to hear from you.
Maritime Academy Trust is seeking a dedicated Attendance Officer to work across our Medway Hub of schools: Barnsole, Bligh, Danecourt, Featherby Infants and Featherby Juniors. This is a unique opportunity to take on a role spanning schools in supporting schools to improve attendance outcomes, safeguard pupils, and work in partnership with families and external agencies.
About the Role
You will play a key part in promoting excellent attendance across our schools. Working closely with Headteachers, Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs), and other key staff, you will help identify patterns of absence, put targeted interventions in place, and engage directly with families to address barriers.
This is a varied and rewarding role involving school-based monitoring, formal correspondence, home visits, multi-agency working, and attendance at legal proceedings. You will also contribute to safeguarding meetings and provide strategic insight to leaders on how to improve attendance in line with national expectations.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone who is:
Experienced in education or child welfare, with a strong understanding of attendance and safeguarding
Professional and proactive, able to manage sensitive situations with empathy and confidence
A great communicator, both written and verbal
Comfortable working across multiple sites and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders
Confident with data, systems, and report writing
A qualified DSL (or willing to train)
A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential for this role.
What We Offer
At Maritime, we do things differently. We are a Trust with a friendly, collaborative culture, and a commitment to helping all children succeed. When you join us, you’ll be part of a supportive team where your contribution is valued and your career development is taken seriously.
As a Maritime employee, you will benefit from:
A flexible and supportive working environment
Tailored induction and training programmes
Opportunities for cross-Hub and Trust-wide collaboration
Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
Local Government Pension Scheme
Membership of a forward-thinking and values-driven trust
Find Out More and Apply
For more information or to arrange an informal chat, please contact Helen Rixon at office@barnsole-maritime.org, Further information can be found in the attached candidate pack and all applications much be made via My New Term. Do not delay in applying as we may close the role early due to number of applications.
Closing date: 12pm 11th July
Interview date: Week Beginning Monday 14th July
Maritime Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and satisfactory references.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Maritime Academy Trust is committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS and pre-employment checks.
About Maritime Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
Maritime is a charitable education trust with schools across Greenwich, Bexley, Kent and Medway. As an education charity, we are fully committed to advancing education for the public benefit. It is our mission to empower our schools with the means to drive ever greater and more enjoyable outcomes for children.
Like our name suggests, Maritime draws on the heritage of our original Greenwich home. We are explorers and adventurers who believe that our community grows stronger through meeting and learning from as many people as possible. Our whole approach to what we do, our whole mindset, is that through strong collaboration we can most effectively spark innovation throughout our schools. Collaborate, Innovate, Educate.
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