Senior Attendance Welfare Officer

The Two Counties Trust, Kirby In Ashfield, NG17 8HP

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  5 May 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 April 2026

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: £29,116.00 - £32,210.00 Annually (Actual)

Senior Attendance Welfare Officer job summary

Grade and Salary: Grade 6: £29,116 - £32,210 actual salary per annum pro rata
(£33,699 - £37,280 FTE)

Working pattern: 37 hours per week / 39 weeks per year (TTO plus INSET days)

Contract term: Permanent

The role

Are you an experienced attendance professional with strong people skills and a passion for improving outcomes for young people? Do you have the confidence and empathy to support families, and the resilience to tackle barriers to attendance head‑on? We are ambitious for every student to attend regularly, thrive and access opportunities that enhance their life choices. Does this sound like you? If so, we invite you to join our team as Senior Attendance Welfare Officer.

As Senior Attendance Welfare Officer, you will play a pivotal role in supporting whole‑school attendance through effective office‑based coordination, direct work with families, and close collaboration with external agencies. You will be working on targeted attendance interventions, ensuring families receive timely, preventative support that promotes sustainable engagement.

Also working closely with the Safeguarding Team, you will be helping to implement student and family engagement strategies that remove barriers and build trust.

You will also provide leadership within the Attendance and Welfare Team, supporting deputising for the Attendance and Inclusion Manager when required.

Why join us?

There are many reasons to choose The Two Counties Trust as a great place to start or continue your career.

We recognise the importance of a happy, healthy, rewarded and well motivated workforce and as such we have developed our HR strategy to invest in our employees. We have removed appraisal and appraisal related pay progression, changing the focus from validation to professional growth and enabling all our employees to get better all the time.

We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within schools and across the Trust and we offer extensive professional learning opportunities for all employees.

We offer:

Highly competitive pay and pay progression opportunities.

We do not operate appraisal or appraisal related pay progression. All employees participate in our Professional Learning Scheme which supports colleagues to develop their expertise and benefit from valuable professional learning.

An array of employee benefits and lifestyle options including discounted healthcare, gym membership and extensive high street retail discounts.

Entry to a career average pension scheme.

Opportunities to experience and share practice in our partner schools across the Trust.

A stimulating, supportive and rewarding working environment with a dedicated team of like-minded professionals.

Excellent opportunities to develop your skills and experience and to progress your career.

We takethe wellbeing and health of employees seriously. We have a range of support mechanisms and benefits available to employees and the Trust has signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter.

Applications must arrive by: Tuesday 05 May 2026 at 9am.

Interviews will be held on: Tuesday 12 May 2026.

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory enhanced level DBS disclosure with a children’s barred list check, two satisfactory references and successful completion of vetting procedures.

In accordance with the statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted as part of due diligence on shortlisted candidates and a social media check will be required as a condition of employment.

We are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and candidates with a disability who meet the essential job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.

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 The Two Counties Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-two-counties-trust

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