Attendance & Welfare Officer

St Oswald’s CofE is a thriving and inclusive primary academy:

Ofsted rated ‘Good’ in all areas: ‘a successful school’ with ‘a caring staff’.

At St Oswald’s CofE Academy, we are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Attendance and Welfare Officer to join our wonderful school. You will be a professional who embeds safeguarding into all attendance practice and ensures full compliance with current statutory guidance, including Working Together to Improve School Attendance, KCSIE, CME duties, and the national attendance framework.

By joining us, you become a key figure in our commitment to pursuing educational excellence and further developing the distinctive Christian character of educational provision and the school community.

Ideal candidates should have experience supporting children or families, strong communication skills, and a good understanding of safeguarding.

Key Purpose

• To assist the school in providing support for students, parents and teachers in order to raise standards of attendance, involving monitoring and intervention.

·        Be a Designated Deputy Safeguarding Lead and support the Safeguarding team in school, including working alongside the DSL/DDSLs with managing referrals to external agencies e.g. school nurse, Early Help, children’s social-care services and the police

·        Work alongside the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and Deputy DSLs in ensuring the Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy is audited, reviewed and updated as and when required, and that procedures are implemented consistently across the Academy and in line with current legislation 

• To support with home visits, meetings and interventions to improve attendance.

• To support SA and PA students to integrate fully in school, checking on wellbeing and ensuring the correct support is in place.

• To deal effectively with parents, monitor and deal with any issues identified as part of the non-attendance and recommend ways to improve the Academy’s procedures to support improvements for students’ attendance.

• To be a role model in terms of behaviour and create a high awareness of the role within school.

• To support duties at break and lunchtime, ensuring high standards of behaviour are maintained by students.

• To work with emotional based school avoidance students to provide in school support.

• Following the sanctions, rewards and behavioural policy.

In return we can offer:

• A support network of professional colleagues.

• A strong culture of professional development.

• The opportunity to be part of an aspirational organisation and contribute to its development and growth plans.

• We are offering payment in line with Scale G Points 11 to 14 (£28, 598 - £31,022 - Actual salary £18,788).

• Up to 32.5 hours per week (term time only + 5 training days). Some flexibility can be built in if possible.

• Eligibility to join the Pension Scheme.

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