Senior Attendance Officer
Harris Garrard Academy, Erith, Kent, DA18 4DW2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
3 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
27 August 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £35,781
Pay scale
- Grade 6 SCP 21 (Outer London)
Additional allowances
Performance & Loyalty Bonus + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
Do you have experience overseeing attendance at a school level? We are looking for an Attendance Officer to join our dedicated academy team at Harris Garrard Academy. This role is likely to suit an individual looking to develop in a school environment with attendance related experience.
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- Qualifications to degree standard or equivalent
- Sound Knowledge of Microsoft software
- Knowledge of Management Information Systems for input and export of student attendance data, including training in relation to attendance and report generation
- Knowledge of attendance policies and procedures
- Knowledge of the range of agencies that work with students and their families
- Basic knowledge of first aid; e.g. emergency first aid course
- Knowledge of a range of attendance codes and when they can be used
- Knowledge of many of the social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Three years' experience of working in an inner-city school or educational establishment
- Experience of working with Academy welfare officer
- Experience of meeting with parents/carers formally and informally
- Experience of managing attendance systems
- Experience in a similar role
- Experience of working with young people, including those with challenging behaviour
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
What the school offers its staff
Harris Garrard Academy is a new school with drive and ambition. Located in the wider South Thamesmead area, we cater to a vastly vibrant 3-19 aged student community. Accessible by fantastic rail and bus transport links and very soon to be on the opening leg of the Elizabeth Line, the academy's stunning working environment is within a purpose-built school designed by Norman Foster and nominated for the Stirling Prize for architecture in 2004.
We also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, electric car scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.
Further details about the role
Your responsibilities will include:
- Line managing the attendance officers in the team
- Ensuring attendance targets are met
- Assisting SLT in the management and development of attendance and punctuality policies
- Daily monitoring and follow-up of attendance and punctuality
- Participating on late desk and following up detentions to be issued for late students
- Contacting parents/carers of students absent at agreed time and recording reasons for absence
- Daily monitoring and early calls on the attendance of children in care or students on the vulnerable list as a priority
- Making home visits with the Academy welfare manager as required;
- Sending letters to parents regarding attendance matters
- Ensuring the smooth operation and accuracy of the computerised registration system
- Establishing the reason for absences including telephone calls, letters and home visits
- Preparing and distributing attendance and punctuality certificates
- Following up on poor attendance or punctuality
- Signing students in and out of the Academy outside normal start and finish times
- Liaising with the Educational Welfare Officer to ensure prompt, consistent and rigorous intervention on poor attendance
- Monitoring student attendance together with students' progress and performance
- Dealing efficiently and effectively with referrals on attendance concerns
- Alerting staff to problems experienced by students and making recommendations on resolutions
- Attending all appropriate meetings, including organising fortnightly meetings with Faculty Directors
- Meeting with LAC students weekly and passing on any relevant information regarding their welfare
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Harris Garrard Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1484 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Harris Garrard Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrisgarrard.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0208 320 4800
Harris Garrard Academy is an all-through 3–18 academy with approximately 1350 pupils on roll and joined the Harris Federation as a sponsored academy in September 2017. The academy is based in Thamesmead in a purpose built building. We are now on a journey towards “Outstanding”, led by highly experienced executive principals with proven track records of school transformation. Our vision is clear: nothing is impossible and everything is possible, irrespective of personal characteristics or background. Every problem has a solution. We believe we are more robust, resilient and determined as a team than as a group of individuals. We support, challenge and hold each other to account at all levels within the academy to ensure that our students achieve their potential, are motivated, engaged and fully prepared for life beyond our academy.
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