Attendance Officer - Gateshead, United Kingdom - Grace College

Description

Attendance Officer

Term time plus 3 training days hours per week

Salary £24,495 - £26,356 pro rata (which equates to £21,046 - £22,645 per annum)

Scale Points 12-16 depending on experience

Required to start as soon as possible

The School

As an 11-19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our Christian ethos.

We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development.

We have a clear model for school improvement to provide outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal.

You will be central to delivering our strategy, as you transform both the school and our students' futures.

We are committed to realising the potential of our students and staff alike.

Our hope and expectation are that each person will be deeply valued as infinitely precious, challenged to grow in character and inspired by learning together to achieve their personal best in whatever they do.

Join us and you can expect to be nurtured, supported, and encouraged at every step of your career.

We put staff professional learning and development front and centre of everything we do in our partnerships with outstanding regional and national organisations.

Ultimately, we are looking for the school leaders of tomorrow who will contribute here at Grace College and across the Emmanuel Schools Foundation.

The Post
The Attendance Officer will work closely with the Vice Principal in order to improve attendance at the College. You will identify students whose attendance is a cause for concern and actively support strategies to aid improvement.

Responsible to the Vice Principal for:

• Monitor and analyse attendance data in order to identify absence trends, persistent absences and punctuality issues.
• Ensure the school policy is appropriate, meets statutory requirements and is implemented in relation to attendance.
• The administration of attendance within MIS (management information system) including administration tasks linked to attendance.
• Ensuring accuracy of daily data through daily data checking.
• Ensuring accuracy of census data.
• Enforce the staged response system (letters, referrals and necessary meetings).
• Making and receiving calls from parents of absent students on a daily basis.
• Communicate with parents, promoting positive attitudes by students and families towards education and to ensure that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities.
• Using MIS system to notify staff and student about authorised absence during the school day.
• Updating records with signing in / out information.
• After AM registration, implementing the first day response text messaging procedure for all first day absences.
• Identify and support strategies to promote the regular and punctual attendance of all students.
• Support and/or deputise for the Attendance Manager.
• Support Progress Leaders, welfare Officers and the Vice Principal with raising attendance.
• Liaise with relevant staff to address poor attendance.
• Arrange and attend regular meetings with identified parties to ascertain targets to reduce absence, support reintegration processes, monitor progress and remove barriers to attendance.
• Inform key stakeholders about current attendance rates in school through reports.
• Routinely make visits to parents at their homes and take part in discussions in school with a view to improving school attendance.
• Undertake interviews, gather relevant information and professionally assess cause/effect and action/need, with the objective of securing high attendance.
• Provide high quality documented evidence and statements when legal action is taken, as well as verbal evidence as necessary.
• Make professional and appropriate attendance referrals to the Local Authority Attendance team.
• Maintain professional, accurate and detailed records in accordance with policy and practice, producing high quality reports to senior management as required.
• Complete the preliminary work necessary for a referral to the statutory responsibilities of the Local Authority
• Promote social inclusion principles and practice, for children and young people in an education setting.
• Manage the recording of student medical records on the school MIS.
• Any other reasonable task assigned by the Principal.

Terms and Conditions Include:

• Working hours: 37.5 hours per week, termtime only plus 3 training days.
• Salary: Point £24,495 £26,356 pro rata (which equates to £21,046 £22,645 per annum). This salary is paid in 12 equal monthly instalments.
• Local government pension scheme.

Closing date:
Friday 3 March 2023 at 12 noon.

The Emmanuel Schools Foundation is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected