Attendance Officer
North East Derbyshire AP Academy
Derbyshire
- £24,867 - £27,193 per year
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Grade 8
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 30 April 2024
Job overview
Job Title: Attendance Officer
Location: The successful candidate will have a nominated base for mileage purposes but will be expected to work peripatetically at all of our academy sites:
High Peak site 25 High Street, Chapel-en-le-Frith, SK23 0HD
Barrow Hill site Station Road, Barrow Hill, Chesterfield, S43 2PG
Hasland site, The Green, Hasland, Chesterfield, S41 0LN
We are also seeking an additional site in the Chesterfield or surrounding area
Grade/Scale: 8 (points 12-15) Actual Salary £24,867 – £27,193
Contract: 37 hours per week/41 weeks per year (Term time + 2 weeks)
Start date: September 2024
We are seeking to appoint an experienced and outstanding practitioner to work collaboratively with the pastoral team to provide comprehensive advice, support and proactive action to ensure that pupils improve their attendance. This role will involve identification of pupils who are persistent absentees, severe persistent absentees and those who are not improving their attendance over time. The successful candidate will work with pupils, their families, all of our sites, APs and supporting agencies to identify barriers to attendance and plan to overcome these. The attendance officer will also ensure that we are compliant with register completion, national guidance from the DfE and take responsibility for our attendance and related policies. This role will ensure that pupils are seen daily and you will take proactive action to coordinate safe and well home visits across the academy where pupils have been absent.
The attendance officer will involve implementing formal consequences such as penalty notices and holidays fines. Data analysis will be completed half termly to identify all families who require intervention by formal action via letter following the Local Authority guidance. This will involve thorough recording and the additional 6 days out of term time will allow for a day per half term holiday to complete this data analysis and identify formal intervention. This can be completed at home and candidates are not expected to attend the academy during school holidays.
You will provide support for pupils across all sites, supporting staff with their attendance knowledge and practise. You will be responsible for arranging your own diary and working peripatetically in order to best meet the needs of the pupils. This role will involve ensuring that pupils receive swift intervention and support to keep them safe, identify risks to any non-attendance and initiate rapid action. This role will also involve the celebration of improved attendance through our rewards policy. Days will be varied in order to meet the needs of the pupils. You will be led by our Assistant Headteacher who manages the pastoral team and you will communicate with the safeguarding team daily.
Benefits include: LGPS Pension Scheme, Westfield Health membership and laptop.
For further information, please contact support@nedsc.derbyshire.sch.uk or visit our website https://www.esteemmat.co.uk/vacancies. Please use the relevant application form on the MAT website; CVs alone will not be accepted. All suitable applicants will be invited to an informal tour prior to selection for interview.
Closing date for applications: 30 April 2024 (23:59)
Interviews: TBC
We reserve the right to interview suitable candidates upon application and may close the application process prior to this date
Esteem Multi-Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its students. We expect all staff, volunteers and agency staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.
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About North East Derbyshire AP Academy
- North East Derbyshire AP Academy
- The Green, Hasland, Chesterfield
- Derbyshire
- S41 0LN
- United Kingdom
Welcome to the North East Derbyshire AP Academy and thank you for your interest in our Academy.
The North East Derbyshire AP (alternative provision) Academy provides education to students who are at risk of permanent exclusion or who have already been permanently excluded from mainstream education. Our provision caters for students in Key Stages 2, 3 and 4, at sites located in Chesterfield and in the High Peak.
Every child deserves an education. Our primary aim is to support and re-engage young people, enabling them to think positively about their future pathway, and life after the Support Centre, whether that be re-integration into mainstream, further education or employment. Our Vision: "Inspire, Achieve, Exceed"
Our Pupils will:
- Feel safe, valued and trusted
- Recognise and achieve their full potential
- Take responsibility for their behaviour, and make healthy lifestyle choices
- Be positive about themselves and their future
- Be tolerant of others, and of the beliefs and views of others
- Be successful learners, both independently and when working with others
- Be self-motivated and have high expectations
We will achieve this by:
- Creating a safe learning environment, free of stigma and negativity
- Celebrating the success and achievements of every member of the learning community
- Establishing nurturing and supportive relationships between staff and pupils
- Setting high expectations for behaviour and academic success
- Providing a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum that provides the skills, confidence and qualifications to access opportunities in life
- Innovating learning, to engage and inspire
- Promoting tolerance and mutual respect
- Providing opportunities for students, parents and carers to voice opinions which form part of the decision-making process
- Providing an inclusive programme of learning opportunities and experiences that promote engagement
Whilst the majority of our students have been permanently excluded, we work closely with local school clusters and the local authority to provide education opportunities to young people who are at risk of exclusion. Such placements have been highly successful in preventing numerous permanent exclusions in Derbyshire.
We are committed to working in partnership with young people, their parents and carers, their schools and other agencies to re-engage and enable them to become successful learners and responsible citizens. Where students are able to demonstrate positive behaviour and a desire to achieve, we aim to help them transition back to mainstream school. For those who require a more alternative approach, we provide a balanced and varied curriculum, delivered through high quality teaching and learning.
Alternative Provision is not a last resort for young people. For some it is the most appropriate way to meet their needs and put them back on a pathway to success.
Further information about our academy can be found on the website at www.nedsc.derbyshire.sch.uk
Yours faithfully,
Janine Dix
Headteacher
Esteem North Academy
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