Pupil Premium Attendance Officer

Sedgehill Academy, London, SE6 3QW

14 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  15 October 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  30 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £30,438.25 - £30,438.25 Annually (Actual)

Pupil Premium Attendance Officer job summary

Pupil Premium Attendance Officer

Location: Sedgehill Academy

Reporting to: Attendance Manager

Working Pattern: Term time only

Contract: Fixed Term based on grant funding to July 2027

Pay Scale: Actual £30,438.25 (£35,275 FTE)

Job overview

We are seeking a dedicated and organised Pupil Premium Attendance Officer to join our busy school attendance team. In this varied role, you will manage a caseload of pupil premium students and work with them, senior leaders in the school and their families to identify and remove barriers to attendance at school. Additionally you will identify and implement appropriate interventions for your caseload of students to help them attend school sustainably. You will also evaluate and report to senior leaders on the success of these interventions. Finally you will support the attendance team more broadly when needed.

Key Responsibilities

Manage a targeted caseload of Pupil Premium students identified through attendance, behaviour and pastoral data. (Identify and address barriers/ provided structured 1:1 sessions)

Target students who are persistently absent or at risk of persistent absence, providing early intervention.

Complete regular attendance checks and follow-up for targeted students.

Support attendance meetings, reintegration meetings and individual action plans.

Monitor PP students experiencing repeated lesson removals, detentions, internal suspensions or suspensions.

Maintain a PP intervention tracker, recording actions, mentoring and outcomes.

Monitor impact through attendance, persistent absence, punctuality, behaviour points, removals and suspensions.

Recognise and celebrate improvements in attendance, behaviour, effort and engagement.

Provide regular impact reports to the Senior Leadership Team, demonstrating whether interventions are working.

Support the Attendance team more broadly where needed with administrative tasks

As part of United Learning Trust, our staff are better rewarded: with good career opportunities, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff's wellbeing; it's our core ethos, we call ‘the best in everyone’. Central Office staff work closely with schools, offering a wealth of expertise to underpin our knowledge. The specialist departments, including HR, finance, technology, strategy and performance, estates, and marketing, work alongside dedicated school improvement teams. Everything that we do is geared towards improving life outcomes for young people. ‘We also believe in offering our staff 'more pay, more time and more support’.

Flexible Working:

At United Learning, we value the dedication, professionalism and hard work of our teachers, support staff and school leaders, and strongly believe that everyone should be able to do their job without sacrificing family life or compromising their well-being. We are committed to encouraging and enabling flexible working opportunities throughout our schools wherever possible and will support employees seeking to work more flexibly.

Rewards and benefits

Competitive salary

At least eight INSET days per year

A designated personal day each year for you to use as you wish

Enhanced contributory local government pension scheme

Enhanced occupational sick pay, protecting you and your family

Competitive and enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption benefits

Over 250 employee exclusive benefits through our partners Westfield Rewards, including access to wellbeing resources, discounted cinema tickets, holidays and gym memberships, car leasing and Cycle2work schemes

Sedgehill 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 successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).

To Apply

Please apply online: https://www.sedgehillacademy.org.uk/visit the “Work with Us” page.

Or contact our recruitment team at:info@sedgehillacademy.org.uk

Unfortunately we do not accept CVs.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a large volume of applications

Closing date: 15 October 2026

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 Sedgehill Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 960 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Sedgehill Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sedgehill-academy

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