Attendance Officer

The Arthur Terry Learning /Partnership (ATLP) is a highly successful Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) encompassing 4 secondary schools, 8 primary schools, a Teaching School, and SCITT.  Our MAT is currently expanding and will soon be 14 schools, 5 secondary and 9 primary, based in north Birmingham, Tamworth, Lichfield and North Warwickshire.

Attendance Officer – John Willmott School

To start as soon as possible

Full-time/Permanent term time only plus two weeks

Grade 3 (£20,344 to £26,317 per annum FTE (specific scale point dependent on experience)

(actual salary £18,642 to 24,115 per annum).

We have an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join our well-resourced team as an Attendance Officer.

You will need to work on your own initiative, have good organisational skills, work well under pressure. To contribute to raising achievement by improving school attendance and to provide a specialist service to assist the school in meeting their obligations and targets in relation to school attendance, especially persistent absence. 

Promoting positive attitudes by students and families towards education and to ensure that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities. To make unsupervised contact with families in their own homes and elsewhere to assess the reasons impacting on the attendance of individual students, facilitating their return or access to regular full time education provision.

Helping to establish and develop a professional service to support the school in raising attendance, investigating persistent absences and improving punctuality.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent is an essential requirement of the role.

Closing date: Wednesday 25th September at 12.00pm midday.

Date of Interviews: w/c 30th September 2019

If you are interested in joining us in our commitment to outstanding learning and teaching then please visit our school website www.jws.bham.sch.uk for further information. 

Completed application forms should be emailed to recruitment@atlp.org.uk or posted to HR Team, c/o Mere Green Primary School, Mere Green Road, Sutton Coldfield B75 5BL.

Please note we do not accept CV’s, applications will only be considered if received on an ATLP application form.

The Arthur Terry Learning Partnership (ATLP) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including enhanced DBS, prohibition check, qualifications (where applicable), medical fitness, identity and right to work.  All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references which will be sought prior to interview.  The ATLP is an equal opportunities employer.