Attendance Officer
Greenshaw High School
Sutton
- £28,331 - £30,024 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- NJC Outer London pay scale, points 11-15
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01 September 2025
- Apply by:
- 25 August 2025
Job overview
- Manage and maintain accurate attendance records using Bromcom, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and school policies.
- Monitor daily attendance registers and promptly follow up on any unexplained absences.
- Ensure all exams, trips, sporting activities, and other authorised absences are accurately recorded on Bromcom.
- Provide accurate and timely daily absence lists to Year Teams to enable swift follow-up.
- Prepare, analyse, and present attendance data, identifying trends and patterns across individuals, year groups, and key demographics.
- Provide weekly and termly attendance reports to the Senior Leadership Team, Attendance Lead, Year Teams, and other stakeholders as required.
- Support the Attendance Lead in identifying emerging attendance concerns across priority groups (eg. SEND, disadvantaged students) to inform strategic planning.
- Assist with statutory returns and ensure all attendance records meet legal and safeguarding requirements.
- Manage the distribution and collection of registers during fire drills and ensure accurate reconciliation against Bromcom records.
- Liaise with other schools to monitor and verify the attendance of siblings and students with shared vulnerabilities.
- Follow the school’s graduated response to attendance concerns, escalating issues through clearly defined stages.
- Arrange and lead attendance meetings with parents/carers to discuss concerns, offer support, agree attendance targets, and formalise action plans.
- Prepare supporting documentation for cases that escalate towards formal/legal processes due to persistent absence.
- Work closely with the Attendance Lead to ensure interventions are appropriate, timely, and regularly reviewed for impact.
- Support attendance-related conversations at relevant parents' evenings and other school events.
- Work directly with students who experience difficulties attending regularly, providing pastoral support and practical strategies to improve attendance.
- Deliver small group interventions focused on re-engagement and improving attendance consistency.
- Work with families to promote the importance of attendance and its impact on educational outcomes.
- Support Year Teams to identify individuals or groups of students requiring additional intervention to improve attendance and punctuality.
- Work collaboratively within the Attendance Team, supporting a coordinated and consistent approach to attendance.
- Liaise with colleagues across the school and external agencies, including safeguarding leads, to ensure joined-up support for students.
- Share concerns with the Designated Safeguarding Lead where appropriate and contribute to safeguarding processes as required.
- Monitor attendance patterns of vulnerable students and report any concerns promptly.
- Uphold and promote safeguarding procedures in line with school policy and statutory guidance.
- Keep up to date with developments and best practice in attendance, including legislative changes, through INSET, training, and professional networks.
- Assist in the completion of all required statistical returns for the Local Authority, DfE, and other bodies regarding attendance and punctuality.
- Professional development and career progression
- Generous pension scheme
- Blue Light Card
- Eligibility for Teacher Art Pass (teaching staff only)
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym Discounts
- Free eye tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Being part of a great team and expanding organisation
Attached documents
About Greenshaw High School
Greenshaw High School is a highly over-subscribed 11 to 19 mixed comprehensive secondary school and sixth form situated in Sutton, South West London. Greenshaw High School is at the heart of a group of over twenty other schools in the Greenshaw Learning Trust. It was designated as a Research School in 2020, so we have access to some of the best research and evidence about how learning can happen most effectively.
With these supportive connections it is no surprise that Greenshaw has been popular with parents of children of all abilities and there continues to be a large demand for places.
Our Vision
We have an established reputation of nurturing high levels of attainment in our students alongside excellent pastoral support. We strive for high outcomes and also value high welfare, for both pupils and staff. Education should not be a choice between one or the other, and we hold both in equal esteem.
Our Learning
As a comprehensive school, our curriculum breadth is incredibly important for us. We want all of our students to experience a wide range of subjects including maths, English, sciences, humanities and languages, and proudly make a space for the performing and creative arts.
We also relish our social responsibility to educate our students about important areas that do not fall neatly into subject categories, but that are critical to young people so they can be empowered citizens and intellectually capable. This includes the books we read in tutor time each morning, and a homework scheme we call The Big Ideas that Shaped the World.
Examination Results
A level results
Reviewing exam outcomes over the last few years of educational disruption presents challenges, but in the previous nine years of public exams our post-16 results were always significantly above national average rates of progress. In the most recent year of public examinations (2019), more than one in five of every A Level grade at Greenshaw High School was at grade A or A* with 73% of students achieving a pass at A*-C.
Over the last two years our students continued to progress well onto their next stage. The majority of our Year 13 students progressed to undergraduate courses (including medicine and law) at prestigious Russell Group universities, including Cambridge and Oxford Universities. We are also proud that our strong work in the creative arts continues to enable large groups of students to move on to foundation art courses, and directly into world leading institutions such as Central St Martins University for the Creative Arts.
GCSE results
Similarly, in Year 11 the proportion of our students securing firm destinations for post-16 education has been ahead of national averages. They have gone on to access a range of BTEC, A Level and other courses both at our school and other colleges locally. In 2019, Greenshaw High School celebrated the GCSE results achieved by students of the school, with 72% of all qualifications graded at 4 or better (what used to be the old ‘grade C’), and a quarter of all qualifications at grade 7 or higher (the old ‘grade A’).
Our Commitment to Your Career
As a Research School Greenshaw High School is committed to providing excellent CPD opportunities and career progression for all staff. We prioritise staff training and development and believe that all members of staff should have a thorough induction and an ongoing programme of training and professional development.
On each Wednesday lessons end an hour earlier, allowing our training to be done within the school day, rather than in twilight sessions. We call this part of the week ‘Professional Growth’, and is divided between departmental sessions on subject pedagogy, and broader professional enquiry in areas such as assessment, educational disadvantage and language. All colleagues are part of the whole school coaching programme where we review effective lesson structures and pedagogy, enabling all of us to continually reflect on our current teaching and always seek to improve.
Our programme of professional development has been recognised as excellent. It was awarded ‘Gold’ status by the Teacher Development Trust, a level of award that is rarely granted.
By investing in staff development our staff body is up to date with the latest thinking and practice in education. This in turn enables them to provide the best learning opportunities for our students, something we are passionate about every day we come to work.
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