Assistant Attendance Officer Cradley Heath, England
Job description
Vacancy: Assistant Attendance Officer
Place: Ormiston Forge Academy, Wrights Lane, Cradley Heath, West Midlands. B64 6QU.
Telephone: 01384 566598
Email: [email protected]
Hours: 37 hours per week. Term time only plus 5 days
Salary: SCP 11-14 (£24,054 - £25,409 per annum FTE) Roughly £20,746 - £21,915 per annum pro rata
Job start: As soon as possible pending employment checks.
Deadline for applications: 31st May 2023
Interviews will be held week commencing: 5th June 2023
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and versatile individual, with good interpersonal skills to work as an Assistant Attendance officer, within our Student Services Team, providing an additional service in support of the whole school attendance strategy.
The successful candidate will work alongside key staff in the academy to reduce levels of absence. Working with children and families to promote high level of attendance, reduce persistent absence rates and to support on all statutory functions in relation to prosecutions for non-attendance at school.
Core Duties:
Work with individual pupils and parents, carers, and families to improve attendance.
Retrieve absence messages from parents/carers from the attendance line and IRIS system and update absences on the Academy’s electronic database in line with the Academy’s attendance policy.
Undertake first day contact with parents/carers. Follow up lack of response to first day contact and other contacts by home visiting, or meeting parent/carers in the academy.
Monitoring and maintenance of the school attendance systems to ensure accuracy with registers and coding
Liaise with staff to follow through incomplete registers and anomalies.
Adhere to procedures and systems and undertake necessary administration in this regard.
Work with a range of academy staff, and other relevant organisations, to help plan strategies and deliver interventions to address individual pupil issues.
Implement action plans with parents/carers and monitor and report on progress and achievements. Particularly students who are persistently late.
Working with individual families to reinforce self-esteem and support pupil achievement.
Sign-posting families to sources of information and guidance, where appropriate.
Analyse and monitor attendance data to identify trends and issues and to ensure a proactive response.
Willingness to undertake training to support job role and career development.
Maintain accurate attendance records, and portfolios of casework and interventions with pupils and families.
Notes:
All staff are part of a wider academy team. Everyone, therefore, is required to support the values/ethos of the academy and the academy priorities as defined in the Academy Improvement Plan. This will mean being responsive to the needs of colleagues, parents and students and being flexible in a demanding environment. On occasions the post holder may be expected to carry out additional tasks, as requested by the Principal and Governors, which are not specifically specified in this job description.
- This is a new job profile for a new post. It will be for a probationary period of six months initially and is subject to review with the post holder from time to time.
Due to the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of Criminal Record Disclosure to be undertaken. It is essential that post holders disclose whether they have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and if so, for which offences. Any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the academy.
For further information please refer to the Job Description or for an informal discussion contact Warren Grant, Senior Pastoral Leader, via [email protected] or call 01384 566 598
How to apply
Please complete the application form linked below. Please note: We do not accept CVs.
Ormiston Forge is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Suitability checks will be undertaken including identity, Right To Work, qualifications, Prohibition check, two references and enhanced DBS check including Children’s Barred List.
Compulsory Declaration of any Convictions, Cautions or Reprimands, Warnings or Bind-overs
It is the academy’s policy to require all applicants for employment to disclose any previous ‘unspent’ criminal convictions and any cautions which have not expired, or any pending prosecutions. In addition, the job you are applying for is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (exceptions order 1975) which requires you to disclose all spent convictions and cautions except those which are ‘protected’ under Police Act 1997 – Part V and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013) and are not subject to disclosure to employers on DBS certificates and cannot be taken into account. Guidance on the filtering of “protected” cautions and convictions which do not need to be disclosed by a job applicant can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website.
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