Role: Attendance Officer (Primary)
Location: Featherstone, Wakefield
Hours: Full-time (Mon-Fri)
Salary: Competitive
I am recruiting for a School Attendance Officer to work for a primary school based in Featherstone (Wakefield). This is a great role for someone who is wanting to support children in them returning to school in an effective way whilst following all school policies and procedures.
What's the day-to-day responsibilities of an attendance officer?
- To manage daily attendance processes effectively, ensuring that students are promptly registered and first day absence notifications and calls are made in a timely manner to ensure the safeguarding and welfare of students.
- To work with the Leadership team and pastoral teams to manage effective short-, medium and long-term attendance strategies in-line with both local and national attendance processes.
- To work closely with the Attendance and Wellbeing Officer, and Wellbeing team to produce reports, data and analyse intervention to support with their work
- To ensure the effective administration of attendance systems and procedures in-line with local and national expectations
- To produce reports on attendance, lateness and ongoing trends and the impact of attendance strategies but analysing this data to act where needed.
- To ensure all daily routine attendance processes are completed in a timely manner, including inputting data, distribution of registers and first day absence notifications.
- To follow up reporting both internally and/or externally as appropriate and notifying Designated Officers of absences related to vulnerable students.
- To do home visits to the students where necessary.
What are the required skills and qualifications needed for this role?
- Thinking of effective initiatives for pupils to return to school.
- Full working knowledge of relevant policies, including child protection / codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation.
- Understanding of working with students with additional needs.
- Experience interacting with children of primary school age.
- Car Driver (desirable), if not then good access to public transport.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills
- Current Enhanced DBS on the update service or willingness to apply for one through Reed Compliance
To apply for this role you MUST have the folloiwing:
- Right to work in the UK.
- A clean UK driving license.
- Valid enhanced DBS on the Update Service (we can support in gaining this if not held).
- Experience and knowledge of working with pupils in a UK school setting.