National Attendance and Belonging Lead

Academy Transformation Trust, Sutton Coldfield, B73 6AZ

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  14 October 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  30 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £60,000.00 - £70,000.00 Annually (FTE) Spot Salary

National Attendance and Belonging Lead job summary

National Attendance and Belonging Lead

£60,000 - £70,000 (Spot Salary)

37 hours, All Year Round

Hybrid work from home with regular travel to academies

January 2026

Are you a passionate, strategic leader with a proven track record of improving attendance and fostering inclusion?

In this role, you will ensure that all our academies deliver high-impact attendance strategies, underpinned by inclusion and belonging. You will drive improvement, hold leaders to account, and share our best practice through national and local networks—raising the profile of our Trust and supporting sector-wide improvement. If you have the vision, expertise, and drive to make a real difference, we want to hear from you.

Why Join Us?

• Impact at Scale: Lead and shape attendance and inclusion strategies across a national network of academies, making a tangible difference for thousands of children.
• Strategic Influence: Drive improvement, challenge and support leaders, and ensure our Trust remains at the forefront of best practice in attendance and belonging.
• Professional Growth: Collaborate with talented colleagues, access high-quality professional development, and represent our Trust at national forums.
• Sector Leadership: Share your expertise and our Trust’s innovative approaches through national and local networks, supporting sector-wide improvement and raising our profile.

About the Role

• Ensure all academies implement and sustain high-impact attendance strategies rooted in inclusion, belonging, and high expectations for all pupils.
• Drive and quality assure attendance improvement, supporting the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in every academy.
• Use data analysis to support leaders to identify trends, target interventions, and hold leaders to account for attendance outcomes, especially for PP, SEND and vulnerable learners.
• Foster a culture of belonging, connection, and engagement, ensuring every child feels valued and able to thrive.
• Actively promote and share best practice in attendance improvement through national and local networks.

Who We’re Looking For

• A visionary leader with a proven track record of improving attendance across multiple schools or settings.
• Someone who can inspire, challenge, and hold leaders to account, driving measurable improvement.
• An expert in attendance with experience in inclusion, safeguarding, and/ or SEND, with the ability to analyse data and lead strategically.
• A confident communicator, able to build relationships, share best practice, and represent our Trust externally.

If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact Christine Franklin, Director of Safeguarding & SEND via email at Christine.Franklin@attrust.org.uk.

Closing date: 9am on 14th October 2025

Interviews: Week commencing 20th October 2025

Academy Transformation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All offers of employment will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, an online check, 2 satisfactory references and any other necessary checks.

We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented groups including those based on, ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion or belief.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

The successful applicant will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE 2025. We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications. We are open to Flexible Working.

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

The successful applicant will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE update 2024. We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications. We are open to Flexible Working.

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 Academy Transformation Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Academy Transformation Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/academy-transformation-trust

Our cross-phase group of academies was founded in 2011 and, since that time, we have grown to our current family of 21 academies (primary, secondary, post-16 and FE) operating across 10 English local authority areas.

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