Senior Attendance Lead
Grace College, Gateshead, NE9 6LEThis job expired on 17 February 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
TBC
Closing date
17 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
7 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- The salary would be competitively placed on the leadership spine for a successful applicant who holds QTS up to a maximum of L10 (£62,224). We are also inviting applications from applicants who do not hold QTS but have suitable and equivalent experience and qualifications, a successful applicant would be placed at a competitive salary point on the support staff scale.
Senior Attendance Lead job summary
.At Grace College, we are committed to addressing the national challenge of improving school attendance, particularly in the context of post-pandemic recovery. We are looking for a passionate and visionary leader to help drive change within our school community and ensure that every student has the opportunity to succeed through consistent school attendance.
As a Senior Attendance Lead, you will be responsible to the Assistant Vice Principal: Student Support for:
Leading, championing and improving school attendance to ensure that students attend and that 97% attendance is the norm for most students, with a particular emphasis on:
Supporting the AVP in setting a clear vision for improving and tackling absence through the leadership of the schools improving attendance strategy.
Make sure all teaching and non-teaching staff know the importance of good attendance, are consistent in their communication with students and parents, and receive the training and professional development they need.
Set high expectations for the attendance and punctuality of all students and communicate these regularly to students and parents through all available channels. Visibility demonstrate the benefits of good attendance through school life including through visual culture, Good Morning Grace and tutor activities and assemblies.
Establishing and maintaining effective systems for recording and responding to daily absence and making sure these processes are followed by all staff and liaising with students, parents/carers and external agencies, where needed:
Line management of the Attendance Support Officers to ensure that when students do not attend college action is taken in-line with the attendance policy to ensure students are safe.
Ensuring that the Attendance Support Officers and the Attendance Administrator maintain an accurate school attendance register through regular quality assurance, using this information to report to external agencies where necessary including the local authority.
Oversight of the child missing in education (CME) processes, statutory reporting of medical absence and legal intervention to ensure that when absence is prolonged this is addressed in-line with statutory guidance.
Ensure that absence from school does not impact continuity of learning by having a strong grasp of attendance data through regular monitoring and analysis and implementing intervention. Students whose attendance is of concern is addressed and improved, with an emphasis on:
Analysing attendance data each day to ensure that appropriate action is being taken to address poor attendance, strategically deploying attendance support officers to areas of need.
Using data to ensure that for students whose attendance is poor the staged response outlined in the attendance policy is followed, reporting regularly to the senior leadership team on attendance data, improvements and actions required to address this.
Building strong relationships with parents/carers when students regularly do not attend and work with them to create intervention and curriculum reintegration plans, reporting to the senior leadership team on the efficacy and impact of these strategies including visiting the home when necessary.
Please refer to the full Job Description for more details.
Join us, and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:
- Defined benefit pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
- Daily lunch allowance
- Free parking
- Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
- Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website.
About Grace College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1190 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Grace College website
As an 11-19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our Christian ethos. We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development. We have a clear model for school improvement to provide outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy, as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.
We are committed to realising the potential of our students and staff alike. Our hope and expectation are that each person will be deeply valued as infinitely precious, challenged to grow in character and inspired by learning together to achieve their personal best in whatever they do.
Join us and you can expect to be nurtured, supported, and encouraged at every step of your career. We put staff professional learning and development front and centre of everything we do in our partnerships with outstanding regional and national organisations. Ultimately, we are looking for the school leaders of tomorrow who will contribute here at Grace College and across the Emmanuel Schools Foundation.
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