Attendance Manager

Dene Academy

Attendance Manager.

We seek to appoint a highly organised and dedicated person to:

Promote excellent attendance, punctuality and conduct amongst all students and ensure the school’s attendance procedures are maintained effectively.

Establish and develop a professional service to support the school in raising attendance, investigating persistent absences and improving punctuality.

Work on initiatives which raise the awareness of staff, parents and the community on the importance of school attendance.

The successful applicant will:

• Communicate with parents on attendance issues including absence calls, texts and recording/ updating in SIMs.

• Ensure that staff complete registers correctly.

• Promote excellent attendance, punctuality and conduct amongst all students and ensure the school’s attendance procedures are maintained effectively.

• Establish and develop a professional service to support the school in raising attendance, investigating persistent absences and improving punctuality.

• Work on initiatives which raise the awareness of staff, parents and the community on the importance of school attendance.

• Manage the effective use of data and apply this in improving overall attendance figures to the national average or above.

• Monitor trends and patterns in attendance that require action.

• Make unsupervised contact with families in their own homes and elsewhere to assess the reasons impacting on attendance of individual students, facilitating their return or access to regular full-time education provision.

• Work alongside other members of the pastoral team upon identification of students whose attendance is a barrier to progress and achievement, using regular checks to improve levels of attendance.

• Meet regularly with the HT and progress the action points from the meeting, including focussed intervention with families and students.

• Liaise with local authority staff regarding the issue of FPNs and other Legal Documentation regarding potential prosecution and attend court hearings when required.

• Be responsible for the attendance and behaviour records of the school.

• Report comparative figures, impact of strategies and areas for further development to the SLT.

• Facilitate meetings within school, liaising with the LA, pastoral staff and external agencies regarding students whose attendance is persistently below 96%.

• Be proactive, initiate necessary action and be able and prepared to put forward your own judgements.

• Set a good example in terms of personal presentation, attendance and punctuality.

• Keep up to date with new Government and local guidance, legislation, policies and procedures, and how they work in the wider workforce.

• Be able to apply confidentiality procedures as appropriate to the context.

• Know about data protection issues in the context of this role.

Closing date for applications: Monday 04th July, 9am.

Interviews: To be confirmed.

Further details about this position and an application pack link are available from the vacancies section of our website: deneacademy.org.uk.

Email completed applications to: enquiries@deneacademy.org.uk.

Dene Academy is an Equal Opportunities Employer.  We want to develop a more diverse workforce and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community.  Where our roles are customer facing and you are required to speak to members of the public, the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.  As a disability confident employer, we are committed to employing disabled people and people with health conditions making reasonable adjustments to support disabled applicants when required.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.  Any offer of employment will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and appropriate references.