Attendance and Welfare Officer

Mulberry School for Girls is looking for an experienced Attendance and Welfare Officer to join our small yet busy team. 

You will have an unshakeable belief that all children deserve an excellent school environment and your work will have a significant positive impact on students’ personal development, well-being and achievement.

Our School

An all-girls school in the heart of Tower Hamlets, steeped in achievement and accolades, providing inspiration and opportunity to provide a platform for student achievement.

• 1600 students on roll

• OFSTED rated Outstanding since 2010

Our Community

We are committed to supporting young people to overcome the barriers that poverty and social exclusion create, ensuring that all students are able to achieve their full potential. This has inspired us to build up a broad network of partnerships, incubating and invigorating student experience, opportunity, drive and success.

There should be no barriers to a child’s future and society should, and can, be a level playing field. Aspiring for this to be reality we promise to:

• Emphasise high quality subject teaching, reinforced by excellent support for learning and intervention.

• Deliver inclusion services that assist personal development.

• Provide excellent pastoral care so no student goes unsupported.

• Continually develop strong leadership and have high levels of expertise in education.

Our partners

We want our students to have access to the same professional connections which young people from more privileged backgrounds can utilise. To make this a reality we have a wide range external partners in higher education, business, industry, the arts and the sciences who contribute extensively and fundamentally to our extra-curricular activities.

• Bank of America

• Barts Health NHS Trust

• British Film Institute

• Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd

• National Theatre

• The Prince’s Trust

• Southbank Centre

• WOW Foundation

What we’re looking for

We are seeking to appoint an exceptional and highly motivated Attendance and Welfare Officer. This role will be assisted by our Pastoral teams and will report to the Designated Safeguarding Lead / Assistant Headteacher. You will be accountable for all aspects of attendance across the assigned key stage. Collaborating with Pastoral teams to ensure clear and robust systems are in place to both incentivise good attendance whilst challenging poor attendance through legal and other methods and strategies

This is an opportunity to be a role model in all 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 and ready to learn every day

You will challenge individual students whose attendance is below the national average, forming strong links with the parents and carers of students with persistent absence

We are proud to inspire our students through a diverse and representative teams and welcome applications from every corner of the communities we serve.

If you have the experience and passion to energise Tower Hamlet’s next generation of leaders, creators and innovators, then we want to see how we can support you in that pursuit.

Encouraging a happy and healthy work environment

We take staff wellbeing seriously at Mulberry Schools Trust, here are just some of the great benefits for all staff.

• Local Government Pension scheme

• Free breakfast

• Free gym onsite

• Paid sabbatical opportunities

• Free onsite parking

• Subsidised staff restaurant with outdoor roof terrace

• Annual programme of conferences and Trust wide events with high profile speakers

• Cycle to work scheme

• Annual service award

• Long service award