Attendance Officer
All Saints Catholic College
Kensington and Chelsea
- Salary:
- Term Time Only - Actual salary £20,358 (£23,421 fte)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2022
- Apply by:
- 8 July 2022
Job overview
Job title: Attendance Officer
Salary: Scale Point 4 (£23,421)
Contract type: Permanent (term time only 39 weeks —actual salary £20,358.25)
Reporting to: Assistant Headteacher: Pastoral
We have an exciting opportunity to join our school in the role of Attendance Officer. The successful candidate will work closely with Pastoral leaders, including Assistant Headteachers, to monitor attendance to school. You will also work with Heads of Year to provide support to parents/carers and students to overcome barriers to attendance. You will be responsible for promoting good attendance through student contact, providing information to parents/carers and celebrating good attendance.
Main purpose
- Oversee and monitor the attendance and punctuality of all students for assigned year groups
- Meet with key staff to discuss concerns regarding students whose attendance falls below 90% in order to identify the students who need to be targeted for intervention
- Work closely with the Heads of School and SLT in charge of Attendance & Safeguarding in addressing the needs of persistently absent students to ensure they return to School on a consistent basis
- Produce regular reports on attendance, with data to show improvements made by targeted cohort of students
- Carry out interviews with students and/or their parents to identify issues and concerns and put in place an appropriate plan to support students to improve their attendance
- Be mindful of the safeguarding issues around attendance and punctuality and where appropriate ensure that students are referred as appropriate
- Ensuring effective communication between all staff regarding identified students and between school and home.
- To develop effective 1:1 relationships with students to enable positive rapport and monitoring of progress towards agreed goals
- Production and distribution of attendance letters in collaboration with the admin team
- Communication with parents via telephone
- Attend attendance line management meetings and prepare updates for students who are persistent absentees
- Support the Pastoral Team by providing weekly attendance data updates through production of reports that can be cross-referenced with behaviour data and other key indicators
Other specific duties:
- To engage actively in the performance review process.
- Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from a line manager to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.
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About All Saints Catholic College
- All Saints Catholic College
- 75 St. Charles Square, North Kensington
- London
- W10 6EL
- United Kingdom
The Gospel quotation that guides our school, "I have come so that you may have life; life in all its fullness" (John 10:10), coupled with our motto of Orare, Laborare, Servire provide the framework for a strong mission by which we will seek to enable students to receive a high quality education, grow their faith and serve those around them.
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