Welfare & Attendance Practitioner

Stoke Damerel Community College & Scott Medical & HealthCare College are proud members of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a ‘family’ of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing our own distinctive character. We are a vibrant and aspirational community of teachers and learners. We have an excellent teaching and support staff team who demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, within and beyond our curriculum.                             

We are now recruiting a Welfare & Attendance Practitioner to provide a high standard of support for our young people and families in order to re-engage them in education and seek to support removal of barriers to engaging in school. The ideal candidate will have experience of working in a school or similar establishment. Have experience of working with families and secondary age students and the ability to build and form good relationships with colleagues and students across the Campus.

The post holder will provide a high standard of support for young people and families in order to re-engage them in education and seek to support removal of barriers to engaging in school.

Hours of Work: 37 hours per week x 40 weeks per year. (Term time, plus 5 INSET days, plus 1 week)

Main duties and responsibilities

● Work with selected groups of students who have attendance issues and initiate suitable

interventions (group work, reports, incentives).

● Work with the Year teams to support in identifying individuals and/or groups of students who

require additional support to improve their levels of attendance and punctuality and assist in

raising standards.

● To work with the Year teams to enable the implementation of intervention strategies to address

poor attendance and celebrate excellent attendance.

● Arrange meetings with parents/carers and other colleagues, to provide relevant information,

offer support and seek ways in which the school can help in improving individual attendance and

punctuality. Including making and attending appointments during relevant parents’ evenings.

● Provide/collate work for students that are on extended sick leave and monitor for the duration

of their absence.

● Provide outreach support to students and families to support integration back into school

following long term absence.

● To monitor students' reduced timetables to support full integration.

● To collect from home and support students that struggle to attend examinations.

● To support students and families at key meetings.

● To visit students on Alternative Provision to ensure adequate systems are in place and to act as

the point of communication for provider, student, parent and school.

● To support the attendance officer in the early morning collection of vulnerable students.

● To organise and participate in the delivery of evening Family Support Programmes.

● To be responsible for keeping up to date with the requirements of the role, by attending appropriate INSET and meetings and keeping abreast of changes in legislation. Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities for the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified. This is a newly created role and inevitably duties will develop and change, therefore the post holder should expect periodic reviews of the job description.

The job description, in consultation with the post holder, may be changed by the Headteacher to reflect or anticipate changes in the job commensurate with the grade and job title.

To apply for a staff vacancy, please register for an online account to complete the application form.

Please visit our website www.greenshawlearningtrust.co.uk/join-us/staff-vacancies

The recruitment process is managed via your online account, and you will receive regular notifications regarding the progress of your application.

The completed online application form should be accompanied by a personal statement of suitability of no more than two sides of A4. In the application form and personal statement, you should demonstrate how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification. Please include specific examples which support your application.

Applications must be received no later than midnight on Monday 27th June 2022.

Candidates are advised to submit their applications as soon as possible as GLT reserve the right to close the advert at any time should we have received sufficient applications.