Attendance Officer
Ark Globe Academy
Southwark
- £24,715 - £30,076 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Ark support staff pay scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 1 November 2021
Job overview
Reports to: Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead/Child Protection Officer
Start date: As soon possible
Contract: Permanent, all year around
Salary: Grade 6 (£24,715-£30,076)
Hours: 08:00 to 17:00pm
The Role:
As an Attendance Officer, you will provide a specialist service to help the Academy to raise achievement by improving Academy attendance and punctuality. The promotion of positive attitudes by pupils and their families towards education and ensuring that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities, particularly where there is persistent absence. Make unsupervised home visits and attends meeting both at school and off site.
Key Responsibilities:
• Meet with school staff, pupils, and parents to establish the reasons for non-attendance/poor punctuality and agree a plan with appropriate strategies and timescales to tackle the issues.
• To contact parents if an explanation for absence is not received
• To notify the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) of any concerns regarding individual pupil attendance
• To respond appropriately to pupil requests for leave during the school term
• Ensure that prompt, consistent, and rigorous intervention with poor attendance is robust
• Have responsibility for monitoring the attendance of most vulnerable students
• Manage the process of addressing poor attendance
• To follow up referrals relating to school attendance in accordance with the attendance policy
• To communicate with parents/carers or local authority as required
• To organise welfare/home visits
• To refer non-school attendance cases to the local authority and include requests for Penalty Notices to be issued and consideration of Court action
• Contact parents to discuss concerns and coordinate appointments for attendance meetings
• To check dual registration students
• Produce statistical reports and accurate data daily, weekly, termly, and annually
• Maintain written records of all actions taken in attendance-related meetings with parents and upload on onto the Academy’s MIS/Impero system
• Liaising with students and parents to improve attendance
• Be fully aware of and carry out all work in line with Child Protection/Safeguarding procedures
• Liaise and work with external organisations as required
• Liaise with the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and Student Services Office Manager to ensure off rolls are processed with due diligence
• Work closely with the Deans to ensure the Academy’s Attendance Tracker is updated weekly and appropriate next steps, actioned
Other
• Carry out other reasonable tasks as directed by the Executive Principal and ALT
• To work collaboratively as a member of the Business Support Team
• To carry out first aid duties, if required
• To undertake fire marshal duties, if required
• To undertake exam invigilation duties, if required
• To undertake lunch till duties, if required
• To undertake morning and afternoon playground duties, if required
• To be willing to undertake appropriate training in line with contractual duties
• To be flexible in regard to working hours
• Attend and support out of hours’ academy events e.g., summer fair, parents’ evenings
• This job description is subject to change with the agreement of the post holder
Person Specification: Attendance Officer
Qualification Criteria
• Right to work in UK
• English and Mathematics GCSE at grade C or above (or equivalent)
Experience
• Have experience in attendance, entering data, analysing data and Excel
• Have good all-round knowledge of the workings of an attendance office
• Be proficient in the use of systems
Personal characteristics
• Effective leadership worker: helpful, friendly and able to make good judgements and lead when required
• Adaptable, organised and able to work with minimum supervision
• Demonstrates resilience, motivation and commitment to high standards of work and achieving excellence
• Approachable, flexible, calm and caring with a ‘can-do’ attitude
• Understands the importance of confidentiality and discretion
• Keen to learn and develop own skills
Specific skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Competent with IT and the use of it to analyse data
• Excellent administrative and organisational skills
• Able to understand and implement particular strategies and methods to help students to improve their learning and enjoyment of learning
• Able to help implement the necessary routines and expectations to establish outstanding behaviour management
• Relentless drive to do whatever it takes to ensure all students succeed
• Ability to instil and ensure high expectations and the Globe Values outlined in our Culture Pyramid
• The courage and conviction to make a difference
Other
• The post holder must be committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils.
• This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Attached documents
About Ark Globe Academy
In 2008 Geoffrey Chaucer Secondary and Joseph Lancaster Primary school merged to join the Ark network as Ark Globe Academy. Ark Globe Academy is a mixed all through school with student age ranging from 3-18.
At Ark Globe Academy we have the highest aspirations for all our children to ensure they are prepared for university and inspired to be leaders in their community. We offer our students a first-class education based on high quality teaching and experiences outside of the classroom.
Our school was recognised by the Government in its Parliamentary Review as an example of good practice in education and students make excellent progress at KS4. All our sixth form students received a university offer with 80% of those being a top 3rd university.
Ark Globe Sixth Form is in the top 2% of all sixth forms in the country and has received the Sixth Form of the Year award at the Ark Education Summit 2019.
School Structure
Ark Globe Academy is divided into four small schools Elbrus, McKinley, Kilimanjaro and Everest, also each small school has a Dean. This ensures that personal relationships between pupils and staff develop quickly, and that a culture of excellent behaviour and shared social norms are easier to maintain.
Aims, Vision and Values
Supporting our mission is our Culture Pyramid. The pyramid sets out for students, staff and parents our purpose, our beliefs and our values. This helps to set expectations in our daily lives at Ark Globe Academy. Read more about our culture pyramid here.
Every child has the potential to succeed and there are no excuses not to achieve that success. We expect every Ark Globe Academy students to graduate from our academy with the qualifications, skills and confidence to achieve their ambitions and go on to higher education or their chosen career.
Curriculum
Our curriculum is intended to prepare students for university and to be leaders in their community.
The Ark Globe Curriculum encompasses the total experience of the student, covering a range of activities from what is learnt in the classroom to our expectations of how our students carry themselves, and make decisions, outside of it. For us, education is much more than a qualification; it is a way of being that results in an empowered young person who is able to secure a life of purpose and meaning.
We recognise that attending university is often key to this as, we believe, it provides young people with more choices. As such, the academic, pastoral and cultural curriculum has been designed to prepare students for university and to be leaders in their community. However, we also recognise that there are high quality alternatives to university, and we help students to secure these too. Whatever choice is made, we want it to be an informed one, where our students determine their own future. Read more about our curriculum here.
Our Mission: Preparing our students for university and to be leaders in their community
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Our website: https://arkglobe.org/
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