• To manage the day to day administration of school attendance and punctuality and to use systems to improve on baseline figures as set by the school
• To offer additional administrative support to colleagues across the school
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and/or vulnerable adults
• Take responsibility for the administration of pupils late to school, recording lateness data on the school system and producing reports of daily figures.
• Check that electronic registers have been entered and follow up missing registers with individual members of staff
• Check pupil absence and follow up using agreed systems, check on children at risk of truanting, initiate and carry out periodic truancy checks.
• Be available to staff and parents for meetings about individual pupils, provide regular updates and data as requested, including home visits.
• Liaise with key staff and other support services to improve attendance rates, keep up to date with current technology and oversee the training of staff in attendance and registration issues.
• Work with new staff to ensure that school systems of registration are adhered to and participate in the development and implementation of school reward systems in relation to attendance.
• Ensure that registration systems are developed and correctly administered and report on the quality of the registers
• Make contact with feeder primary schools during the transition period and gain any relevant information about pupil attendance. 

The ideal candidate will have: