Attendance Officer at Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School

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Job Reference #

EDV/2025/CWCS/98164

Location

Potters Green Road, Coventry, West Midlands, CV2 2AJ

Contract Type

Permanent

Contract Term

Full-Time

Salary

£24,816.00 - £29,880.00 Annually (Actual)

Closing Date

12:00pm, 5th Jan 2026

Start Date

asap

Positions Available

Positions Available 1

Driving licence required

About this Role

Working at Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School we wish to appoint an exceptional individual to increase school attendance and address issues affecting attendance with our students. This role will work with both students, families, staff and other agencies to identify pupils who are not achieving full attendance and building the capacity and expertise within our school to address attendance issues.

You will manage a case load of students with additional needs and their families. This will involve home visits to families in our school community. You will also manage our Attendance Assistant.

The successful candidate will:

· Demonstrate a successful track record of intervention work with children, young people and their families

· Have experience in supporting and engaging hard to reach families and delivering packages of support

· Have experience of undertaking Early Help assessments and current Child Protection procedures

· Have excellent organisational and communication skills

· Be able to work collaboratively as part of a team and develop positive relationships

We can offer you:

A strong Catholic ethos where everyone is valued
A welcoming and ambitious team of staff
An organisation that values, nurtures and empowers all staff
Future professional development within an innovative and ambitious organisation

The Romero Catholic Academy operates a refer a friend scheme of £200 for the referrer. If you have been referred to this vacancy by a current employee, please highlight this within the section headlined "Where did you first hear of this vacancy?" on the application form. All rules relating to the referrals are provided within the TRCA Refer a Friend Policy on our website.

We are committed to safeguarding children. As part of the pre employment process, an enhanced DBS check, Prohibition checks, Childcare Disqualification (where appropriate) and Online/Social media screening will be undertaken in addition to other relevant background checks. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. Safeguarding is our top priority, and we encourage all applicants to review our safeguarding and child protection policy which outlines our commitment to the safety and wellbeing of our students.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.