Senior Attendance Officer

Kenton School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE3 3RU

58 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  2 September 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  4 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,806.00 - £34,867.00 Annually (Actual) Term Time plus 5 training days and 10 additional 'on call days'

Senior Attendance Officer job summary

Kenton School is a vibrant and inclusive secondary school at the heart of the community in which we serve. With around 1800 students, we are amongst the largest schools in the North East. At Kenton we are passionate about providing the very best education possible for young people in our city, our region and nationally. Our strong and committed team share our vision of ensuring all our students not only reach their potential but that they are confident, happy and resilient students who treat each other with compassion and respect.

We know the key to our success is having a strong team committed to the ethos of the school with the skills, dedication and passion to motivate and instil high expectations in every student to achieve their potential regardless of the barriers they face.

With a large, diverse school comes some challenges, and ensuring student attendance stays above national and regional benchmarks is a key priority for us. A vacancy has arisen within our attendance team for a strong and committed team leader to work with our Trust attendance lead to drive whole school attendance strategies to ensure sustained improvements.

If you are the person we are looking for you will possess:

A proven track record undertaking pastoral work in a secondary school environment, ideally in attendance.

The ability to analyse and interpret data to inform practice.

Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to challenge robustly and professionally.

The ability to effectively lead a team of professionals and work with other stakeholders and multi-agencies.

A determined approach with the creativity to develop and deliver new strategies and approaches to secure good attendance across all year groups.

Candidates must possess an understanding of the barriers to learning for children and young people and a working knowledge of strategies to overcome them combined with excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to form effective, professional relationships with all stakeholders. And most importantly, candidates must have the ability and flexibility to adapt to ensure the needs of all students are met.

In return we offer:

Salary sacrifice schemes such as cycle to work.

Access to free gym facilities on our Kenton School site.

Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme

The opportunity to work in a fantastically resourced school with easy commuting access to both the A1 and A19, in a supportive team committed to the development of all our staff.

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.

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About Kenton School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1795 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Kenton School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/kenton-school

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