Attendance Assistant
Rugby Free Secondary School
Warwickshire
- £17,102 - £17,608 pro rata
- Expired
- Salary:
- £20,300.00 - £20,900.00 Annually (FTE) 37.5 hours a week, 39 weeks a year
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 5 February 2023
Job overview
Areas of Responsibility and Key Tasks
Purpose
- To promote high levels of attendance and punctuality and maintaining effective monitoring systems to identify and highlights students with attendance concerns.
- To provide administrative support
Key Tasks
- To monitor the attendance email and update the school systems accordingly
- To collate all evidence related to authorised absence
- To monitor and follow up missing and inaccurate lesson registers, informing the Attendance Officer and Headteacher daily
- To collect information and collate reports as and when required
- To book appointments for home visits and attendance meetings
- To log truancy on to Brom Com and run regular reports for Heads of Year
- To complete stage 1 absence letters and send out to parents and carers
- To print out daily fire registers
- Sign out students leaving school for appointments
- Allocate praise points for students with improved attendance as directed by the Attendance Officer
- To create certificates for students with improved attendance
- To complete Child Missing in Education forms as required
- To create student attendance/punctuality reports as and when required
- To provide administrative support to the school as and when required
Safeguarding
- Ensure that all students have a safe environment in which they can learn, reporting any concern about the environment to a member of the site team or if appropriate to one of the Designated Safeguarding Leaders
- To be aware of systems which support safeguarding and following the procedures as highlighted in the Safeguarding Policy
- To identify children who may benefit from early help as soon as possible and discuss this with one of the Designated Safeguarding Leaders
- To consider at all times what is in the best interests of the child
- To protect children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
- To take action to enable all children to have the best outcomes
Other Specific Duties
- To continue personal development as agreed
- To engage actively in the performance review process
- Establish and maintain effective relationships and communication with staff, parents and students
- Uphold the high standards of the school in all communications.
- Adhere to the schools policies.
- Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task to be undertaken may not be identified
- Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from a manager to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description
- Employees are expected to adhere to Rugby Free Secondary School’s agreed Code of Conduct
- The school will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition
Attached documents
About Rugby Free Secondary School
Welcome to Rugby Free Secondary School
‘Pupils benefit from a school community that includes pupils from a wide range of different backgrounds and cultures. There is a culture in which pupils see these differences as a positive thing. Uniqueness is valued and celebrated. Pupils feel confident ‘to be themselves’ at Rugby Free Secondary School. (Ofsted ‘Good’: July 2021)’
At Rugby Free Secondary School, we aim to foster kindness and pride, whilst maximising our academic and personal potential. We believe that all of our students should be happy and safe, whilst demonstrating the limitless endeavour and resilience required to succeed by striving for excellence. To achieve these goals, our school ethos is underpinned by the foundations of mutual respect, positive relationships and genuine curiosity. This is encompassed in our educational philosophy of creating more articulate, organised and progressive learners, and the desire to create both independent and collaborative learners who are proud to be educated at Rugby Free Secondary School. Alongside this, we focus on broadening our students’ core subject knowledge and understanding of the wider world. As a consequence, quality-first Teaching and Learning is at the centre of our school’s ethos, and is the key priority for all staff. Our aim is for teachers to deliver high-quality lessons to all year groups, whilst also being supported to develop through pertinent and purposeful internal and external CPD that is bespoke. Learning is integral to everything we do at RFSS. We ensure that all of our students, regardless of gender, ethnicity or ability, receive the best possible learning experiences, to enable them to achieve and maximise their potential. Here at RFSS, we continually support students to develop a love of learning to help them become learners for life, in order to equip them with the knowledge and skills that they will need in the real-world. This is also the case with our teaching staff, who continuously develop and update their own pedagogical practices, through Action Research projects and other bespoke professional development sessions.
Please find below link to our website with the latest Ofsted report when we were graded as ‘Good’.
https://www.rugbyfreesecondary.co.uk/ofsted
Our Values are:
- Kindness – The quality of friendliness, generosity, consideration, honesty
- Collaboration – The belief that working and learning with others will lead to greater success
- Curiosity – A strong desire to know and to learn
- Resilience - The ability to recover quickly and learn from the difficulties we face
- Respect - To appreciate the importance of understanding and admiration for others and self
- Endeavour - The belief that hard work is needed to achieve something we can be proud of.
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