Safeguarding, Attendance and Behaviour Officer

Ryecroft Primary Academy are looking to appoint a Safeguarding, Attendance and Behaviour Officer to join our academy as soon as possible.  

You will take a lead role in providing a high quality and effective safeguarding and pastoral support across the academy, maintaining accurate records, and working with staff, pupils, parents, and external agencies to ensure appropriate plans and strategies are in place to support pupils and their families.  In addition, you will take a lead role in the administration of student attendance via SIMS, ‘first day’ response and home visits to improve attendance across the academy; with a particular focus on the most disadvantaged. The role involves producing attendance charts and statistics to evidence for penalty fines/court cases in collaboration with the EWO. You will need to provide a positive image of the academy in all dealings with parents, visitors, and outside agencies.

Hours:  37 hours per week / Term Time only plus 5 days (39 weeks) / Permanent.

At Ryecroft Primary Academy we are committed to providing the best educational experience for all our pupils and we believe that home and school working together, as a team, ensures that our pupils do their very best and that they are given the opportunity to achieve their full potential. The staff at Ryecroft ensure this by providing exciting lessons, guidance, and support so our pupils can develop as happy, well-balanced individuals who can make the right decisions for themselves.

The academy is a smaller than average primary school catering for pupils from our 2-year-old provision and our Early Years Foundation Stage, through Key Stage 1 and into Key Stage 2. There are currently 281 pupils on roll, including 24 part time Nursery pupils and 11 part time 2-year-olds.

The school is situated in the community of Holmewood Bradford.

Visits to the school are welcomed.  To arrange a visit please ring the office on 01274 683128 to make an appointment.   

For more information and to apply for this position please visit our website at http://recruitment.deltatrust.org.uk 

Closing date:  17 September 2021 at 12 noon

The Trust is committed to safeguarding the welfare of its students and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificate and checks of the relevant barred list / prohibition lists.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. However, it is important to note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may limit the numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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