Trust Attendance Improvement Manager
Star Academies, Blackburn, BB1 2HT13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
The successful candidate will be expected to start as soon as practicable.
Closing date
6 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £39,862.00 to £46,142.00 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
About the role
You will work in partnership with school leaders, attendance officers, safeguarding teams and external agencies to:
- Adapt and implement trust-wide attendance policies and strategies to meet individual school contexts.
- Analyse attendance data to identify patterns, trends and barriers to attendance.
- Plan and deliver high-quality attendance interventions, including preventative and early-help work with pupils and families.
- Provide coaching, training and professional guidance to school-based attendance teams.
- Support schools with statutory processes, including penalty notices, prosecutions and education supervision orders where required.
- Build strong relationships with families and partners to remove barriers and secure positive attendance outcomes.
You will also play a key role in promoting the vital link between attendance, attainment and wellbeing, ensuring schools maintain a consistent, solution-focused and compliant approach.
You will have:
- A strong track record of improving attendance and reducing persistent and severe absence.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- The confidence to lead, influence and support school leaders and teams.
- A child-centred, solution-focused approach balanced with a strong understanding of statutory frameworks.
- Flexibility to travel across trust schools and work remotely as required.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Full commitment to our vision and values.
What the school offers its staff
About Star Central
Star Central, which is based at our head office in Blackburn, Lancashire, provides leadership, strategic direction and support to Star Academies, Star Talent Academy and our schools.
The Star Central team includes experts from a range of professional backgrounds, who work together to provide an outstanding support service to the Star community. We support our schools to provide educational and operational excellence and to cultivate a strong Star community, with the aim of nurturing today’s young people and inspiring tomorrow’s leaders.
Further information about the job
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Star Academies
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- info@staracademies.org
- Phone number
- 0330 313 9800
Head office location
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