Attendance & Welfare Officer

The Role:

As an Attendance Officer, you will provide a specialist service to help the Academy to raise achievement by improving Academy attendance and punctuality. The promotion of positive attitudes by pupils and their families towards education and ensuring that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities, particularly where there is persistent absence. Make unsupervised home visits and attends meeting both at school and off site.

 

• Meet with school staff, pupils, and parents to establish the reasons for non-attendance/poor punctuality and agree a plan with appropriate strategies and timescales to tackle the issues.

• To contact parents if an explanation for absence is not received

• To notify the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) of any concerns regarding individual pupil attendance

• To respond appropriately to pupil requests for leave during the school term • Ensure that prompt, consistent, and rigorous intervention with poor attendance is robust

• Have responsibility for monitoring the attendance of most vulnerable students

• Manage the process of addressing poor attendance

• To follow up referrals relating to school attendance in accordance with the attendance policy

• To communicate with parents/carers or local authority as required

• To organise welfare/home visits

• To refer non-school attendance cases to the local authority and include requests for Penalty Notices to be issued and consideration of Court action

• Contact parents to discuss concerns and coordinate appointments for attendance meetings

• To check dual registration students

• Produce statistical reports and accurate data daily, weekly, termly, and annually

• Maintain written records of all actions taken in attendance-related meetings with parents and upload on onto the Academy’s MIS/Impero system

• Liaising with students and parents to improve attendance

• Be fully aware of and carry out all work in line with Child Protection/Safeguarding procedures

• Liaise and work with external organisations as required

• Liaise with the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and Student Services Office Manager to ensure off rolls are processed with due diligence

• Work closely with the Deans to ensure the Academy’s Attendance Tracker is updated weekly and appropriate next steps, actioned

 

Other

• Carry out other reasonable tasks as directed by the Executive Principal and ALT

• To work collaboratively as a member of the Business Support Team

• To carry out first aid duties, if required

• To undertake fire marshal duties, if required

• To undertake lunch till duties, if required

• To undertake morning and afternoon playground duties, if required

• To be willing to undertake appropriate training in line with contractual duties

• To be flexible in regard to working hours

• Attend and support out of hours’ academy events e.g., summer fair, parents’ evenings

• This job description is subject to change with the agreement of the post holder 

Find out more about the benefits of working for Ark at arkonline.org/careers/why-work-with-us/.

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We aim to build a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone – staff and students – can do their best work and achieve their full potential. We want to reflect and represent diverse perspectives across our organisation because we know that doing so will make us stronger and more effective. To know more about Ark’s diversity and inclusion commitments, please click on this link.

Safeguarding statement:
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants. 

Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click this link.

Please note we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this role may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. We strongly encourage to submit your application at your earliest convenience.