Work with students and their families to address attendance concerns, liaising with other agencies where needed. 

Champion disadvantaged, SEND and other key groups of students as needed to improve their attendance. 

Oversee the forms for reporting daily absence and ensure procedures are accurate for recording daily attendance. 

Ensure students' MIS records include all relevant attendance information to support future actions if needed. 

Ensure that all interventions are logged appropriately (MIS) working with the Attendance Administrator and other key staff. 

Liaise with relevant pastoral staff to arrange regular meetings discussing attendance issues with individual year group. Lead periodic meetings on attendance to agree action plans to address concerns.  Attending CIN/CP/TAF meetings of attendance is a concern and work closely with LA teams. 

Examine each group cohort to target those who need intervention, historic data should be included within these discussions.  Ensure we are working towards good attendance rates, by using best practice and working within the LA polices. 

Track attendance % and PA figures and identify which parents will require an attendance meeting.  Hold meetings to facilitate the students with parents/carers who have work commitments.   

Oversee the production of attendance letters and ensure these meet LA and DfE policy requirements. 

Work with the SLT responsible for reporting to ensure attendance figures are accurately reported for each assessment window. 

Periodically meet with the LA Attendance Officer providing details of key areas of concern and make informed decisions for impact. 

Attend regular Professional Support Group meetings to share best practice or to share data / concerns regarding specific students. 

Identify students who have been absent for several days, alert their Head of Year, and carry out home visits for those you or pastoral staff are concerned about, such as those that haven’t been seen for several days. 

Manage term time absence requests, issuing penalty notices for unauthorised term time leave where applicable. 

Manage and be responsible for penalty notices for punctuality and / or if a student is seen whilst excluded from school. 

To ensure part-time timetables are administered and reviewed in a timely manner in line with LA processes 

Examine data closely to allow comparison to be made with year-on-year whole school figures, year group comparisons and at an individual student level. 

Monitor and review vulnerable groups to ensure the gap between them and non-disadvantaged pupils is decreasing.   

Identify trends in absences to prepare strategies for low attendance levels. 

Plan for weeks where there is historically low attendance and target intervention appropriately. 

Generate weekly attendance reports (MIS) for pastoral staff, such as Heads of Year and form tutors. 

Prepare reports for a range of audiences on attendance and punctuality, such as the SLT and the Local Governing Body. 

Examine and compare previous data and comparing against National and other benchmarks e.g. FFT Aspire. 

Handle all enquiries and contact relating to admissions as well as process all applications within statutory timeframes.  

Manage and organise the administration of admissions events, such as tours of the school, meeting with pastoral staff and assessment tests. 

Check admission applications and request further information from parents and prior schools where necessary.  

Liaise with Heads of Year and Heads of Department to identify relevant groups and a suitable start date. 

Liaise with the data manager to ensure that student data is entered onto our MIS. 

Remove students who leave from roll and complete the relevant LA paperwork. 

Liaise with prior or new schools to ensure that student files, including safeguarding files, are requested and received. 

Working with key staff to create a culture of high expectations around attendance and lead in rewarding students with 95% - 100% and improved attendance. 

Research and implement the best strategies for raising attendance across the school. 

Introduce innovative programmes, such as 12 days of Christmas, to help boost attendance at traditionally low attendance times  

Liaise with parents regarding any issue and build positive relationships with them  

Inform all relevant parents by daily email which students have arrived late for school 

Contact home and speak where possible, to all parents to discuss reasons why a student has arrived late to school etc.  

Promote punctuality and ensure appropriate sanctions are set for students who are persistently late  

Have oversight of the first day response process e.g. telephoning parents / carers to ascertain the nature of absence and ensuring safety of students and provide training to the Attendance Officer and administration team as needed. 

Make regular home visits to properties and report concerns. 

To receive information from HCC using their preferred method of contact (currently HertsFX) and record, disseminate and track this information as appropriate. This will also require returning of completed documents to meet time-sensitive deadlines. 

To maintain accurate and up to date records of all external agency involvement. 

Train as a Deputy DSL to support safeguarding and welfare checks for students and to support the DSL by investigating assigned safeguarding issues and resolving these as needed.