Attendance Manager

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Attendance Manager to join our dedicated team and play a key part in the continual development of monitoring and tracking student attendance.

You will be able to identify the factors that are impeding good attendance, co-producing an integration plan that would be implemented in partnership with the internal team to create sustained improvement of attendance.

Outstanding communication skills are required, as this role can link in with outside agencies and charities and create sessions for parents within school to look at factors such as parenting (Malachi), Solihull Approach, sleep, bullying, SEND, illness and behaviour.

In this role, you will:

• Carry out all the attendance tracking, data analysis, and home visits and administer the ELIT process, information evenings, etc.
• Lead on whole-school campaigns with staff, quality assuring the effectiveness of these campaigns
• Ensure the signposting of the importance of attendance is visible across the school and on the agenda of every meeting
• Liaise with families and establish an integration plan/action plan for targeted students to improve attendance in light of any push/pull factors identified
• Liaise with the wider Pastoral team, ensuring any pastoral support agreed in any integration plan is actioned and its effectiveness monitored
• Support teachers in lessons to help find ways to fill in any learning gaps that any low attendance may have created for students with low attendance
• Maintain overall responsibility for managing the attendance team and quality assuring their work
• Celebrate and reward students who make positive progress
• Develop and enhance the practice of others
• Strategically lead and oversee Refocus, ensuring its continued growth

This is an ideal opportunity for a colleague who is ambitious, creative and enthusiastic about helping students to learn in a strong, supportive environment.

About us

At the heart of Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, Bournville is a traditional all-through school with a proud history and a bright future. Passionate about ambition, dedication, integrity and excellence, we want the very best for our students and actively challenge them to shape their lives and those of the people around them. Our last Ofsted inspection found that we Require Improvement, and we have a far-reaching transformation plan in place. We want you to be part of it – and to be the catalyst that takes us to the next level.

Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust

At Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, we enrich lives and transform futures. Our four academies in and around Birmingham offer an outstanding quality of education, recognising that all our children are individuals and delivering exceptional pastoral care to ensure their happiness. Whilst we place strong emphasis on academic achievement, we take a holistic view of education and maintain exciting extracurricular programmes to create the well-rounded young adults of tomorrow. We’re also creating outstanding careers that could take you anywhere within our network – and take your future anywhere you want to go.

Benefits

When you join Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, you join a nurturing family where your professional satisfaction and personal happiness really count. You can expect heavy investment in your career development alongside an outstanding package of benefits, including a generous pension scheme, employee recognition and assistance programmes, Bike2Work and green car schemes, the Perkbox wellness hub and discount platform, and much more. As to the future? Well, that’s entirely up to you, with the only limit on your progression being your ambition and abilities.

Closing date: 7.00pm on 24 April 2024.

Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will therefore be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as well as providing evidence of qualifications.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974