Attendance Officer - Hackney, United Kingdom - The Excelsior Academy

Description

Responsible to:
Assistant Headteacher responsible for whole school attendance


Responsible for:
Attendance


Remuneration:
PO1 Point , £36,971 - £37,754 pro-rata (£41,967 - £42,855 full-time equivalent)


Status:
Term Time, Permanent


Working hours:8:00 am - 4:00 pm.

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Attendance Officer, to play a key part in the continual development of the monitoring and tracking of student attendance, identifying early opportunities for intervention and proactively seeking appropriate support for students and their families/ careers to improve and maintain high levels of attendance and wellbeing.

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
The Excelsior Academy is committed to promoting equality for all students and employees.

Every individual will be treated with courtesy and respect and his or her contribution to the learning process will be valued.

All employees are expected to understand and promote equality and diversity in the course of their work.


SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN

The Excelsior Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.

The Excelsior Academy is part of the Community Schools Trust. We serve a wonderfully diverse community, many of whom face challenges through no fault of their own.

It is for this reason we want to level the playing field for all of our students, regardless of their background, by providing a world class education.

We care about outcomes at The Excelsior Academy. We know good grades lift life chances and impact health, wealth and even mortality.

We know that teachers have the greatest impact on pupil outcomes and so we take professional development seriously, whatever our role in the school.

Whether we have taught for two months, two years, or twenty years, we believe in our capacity to always improve in the classroom.

Our CPD provision is comprehensive and fundamental to our commitment to improve.

We are invested in our own and each others' development and use principles of instructional coaching to provide feedback to each other.

Our CPD involves deliberate practice, video models of excellent practice and lots of fun The desire to improve a little bit everyday permeates the culture in our school.

Our approach to teaching is evidence informed. We avoid 'discovery learning' methods and instead, we teach explicitly. Our teachers are experts in the classroom and lead from the front.

We focus on perfecting routines for behaviour, like entry into lessons and transitions between tasks so that we can maximise time spent on learning.

We have excellent behaviour systems which mean teachers can focus on what we love doing most - teaching

As well as excellent outcomes, we want our students to be well rounded individuals who will thrive beyond school years; that's why we deliberately teach prosocial behaviours like making eye contact when greeted, listening attentively and showing gratitude.

We know these skills will set all of our students up for life, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

When students fall behind, our teachers run interventions outside of their lessons.

We provide an extra session after school for all year 11 students so their families don't have to worry about paying for a tutor.

Teachers work hard at TEA.

Our students deserve nothing less and we expect the highest of standards from them because we know they are capable of achieving them.

But we invest in working smart too: we have a 3 week Christmas holiday, no retrospective book marking, no student report writing and no formal lesson observations

We recognise talent and impact at The Excelsior Academy. There are lots of opportunities for promotions within the school and Community Schools Trust.

Our staff body at all levels is a true reflection of the makeup of the community we serve - we are proud of this and welcome anyone who will add value to our wonderful school community.