Lead Attendance Officer

Academy: Leeds City Academy 

Role: Lead Attendance Officer 

Grade: PO1 P33 – P36 £29,323 - £31,601 Pro Rata, TTO + 20* (Actual: £27,127- £29, 234) 

Hours: 37 Hours per week 

Accountable to: Associate Principal – Behaviour & Safety 

20 days to be used to support attendance of year 11 during holiday revision periods and support with transition events. 

Leeds City Academy is an 11-16 sponsored Academy situated close to Leeds University. Our student body are highly talented and extremely aspirational. The vast majority of our students speak English as an additional language, but we see this as a hugely positive and inspiring skill. Our leadership team are committed to an Academy which works hard to reduce teacher work load and we have a fantastic benefit scheme run through Perkbox. Our NQT and CPD training programme is highly respected by staff at the Academy. Please apply if you wish to work for an Academy Trust who values and supports the next move in your career, come and join us on our journey to ‘Outstanding’. 

Role: We are seeking an outstanding individual to improve attendance rates and reduce student absence. This is a key role within the academy and will give you the opportunity to lead on driving a positive attendance and punctuality culture. 

General Duties and Responsibilities: 

As part of the Academy Pastoral Team the Attendance Leader will: 

· Lead on and be accountable for all aspects of attendance across the academy, coordinating the attendance teams and ensuring that a clear and robust action plan exists to both incentivise good attendance whilst also challenging poor attendance through legal and other means. 

· Be a role model in attendance procedures, supporting the day to day operations of the attendance team and taking an active part in ensuring that students arrive to school on time, in the correct uniform and ready to learn every day. 

· Challenge individual students whose attendance is below the National average, forming strong links with the parents and carers of students with persistent absence. 

· Work with senior leaders to create the annual development plan for attendance within the Academy, ensuring that the strategy in place is sufficiently sophisticated to deliver rapid improvements in attendance. 

· Work with the Key Stage Pastoral Leaders to plan a half termly Academy incentive programme for attendance, ensuring that incentives are low cost, high impact, relevant to students and effectively promoted across the Academy. 

· Coordinate the daily actions of the attendance team, focusing priority on groups of students with both the highest needs (safeguarding) and the highest chance of success in home visits. 

· Quality assure the attendance actions carried out on a daily basis, ensuring that all absent students have had some form of attendance intervention and that all colleagues within the Academy are robustly supporting and delivering on the attendance strategy. 

· Support, oversee and track the requirement of all instances of illness to be evidenced with medical information 

Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities for the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified. 

Part of The White Rose Academies Trust - the most rapidly improved family of schools in the region - Leeds City Academy is accelerating on a thrilling journey which will ultimately see the school, its staff and its students, secure an Ofsted rating of outstanding by 2020. We're securing our 2020 vision for Outstanding by growing our family of exceptional education professionals; dedicated specialists and passionate leaders with the shared the goal of transforming future prospects for the next generation of West Yorkshire. 

We provide exceptional life training; harnessing the skills and fortifying the aspirations of young people, who we know will transform the region and provide a positive, progressive contribution to society 

The White Rose Academies Trust is a local Trust dedicated to raising and fulfilling the ambitions of young people. Our academies throughout Leeds are at the heart of the communities they serve, which is why we are committed to delivering an outstanding education to every one of our students. 

The Trust employs over 370 outstanding professionals who are committed to unlocking the potential of the next generation. 

We benefit hugely from our sponsor, Leeds City College Group, which is one of the largest and most successful FE/HE College Groups in the UK. Our sponsor provides leadership and operational support and advice to all our Academies. They also share our vision of creating a truly Outstanding Trust. 

Please note we will not accept CVs. You must apply using the Trust application form. 

Closing Date: 24/09/2018 – 12 noon 

Shortlisting Date: 25/09/2018 

Interview Date: TBC