The St Bart's Multi Academy Trust, in partnership with Governors, staff and
children of Longford Primary Academy are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and
enthusiastic individual to join our hard working and committed team.
The position is temporary in the first instance and will be reviewed at the end of the academic year, in line with school needs.
At Longford Primary Academy our children come first. High expectations, mutual trust and respect
are underpinned by a warm, supportive ethos.
In the best interests of our children we work very closely with our
partner Academies. The successful candidate will be working alongside a team of
caring, enthusiastic, dedicated staff, who are well-supported by their Senior
Leadership Team.
Job Purpose:
- To manage refurbishment, expansion and other
building advancements in terms of bidding, strategic planning, procuring and
implementing building projects within the academies
- To manage pupil attendance records and monitor
of pupil attendance
- To manage attendance processes in line with
statutory responsibilities
- To maintain accurate attendance records and
report on attendance and contribute to strategies that improve attendance
- To deal with enquiries and queries from
parents
- To liaise with staff, students, parents,
colleagues across the Trust and multi-agency partners to ensure that attendance
processes are accurate and fit for purpose
- To proactively challenge students and parents
where students are not present, not on time or not in lesson to ensure that all
learning opportunities are maximised.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
The post holder will:
- Manage and deliver the attendance process by
providing accurate student information regarding daily attendance.
- Through managing the attendance process record
and provide information and data regarding punctuality.
- Manage attendance records throughout the day,
ensuring systems are set up to accurately capture information on student
movement.
- Ensure that registers are taken every lesson
throughout the day and follow up any non-attendance. This will involve
reporting and liaising with Senior Leadership to report where there are issues
with errors with the registration process.
- To take responsibility for accurately
maintaining registers for statutory reporting processes.
- Effectively and efficiently providing data
driven attendance reports on a daily, weekly and termly basis.
- To develop attendance monitoring and reporting
systems that support improvements in student attendance and ensure staff have
access to relevant information.
- To act as first point of contact with parents.
This involves taking absence calls and contacting parents to seek further
information on student absence.
- To deal with parental enquiries, which can be
challenging conversations and, occasionally, in difficult circumstances.
- To develop strong working relationships with
the pastoral team, to identify and support student absence issues.
- To attend parental meetings, where required,
to support student attendance improvements.
- To ensure that issues of attendance and
admissions comply with the relevant equality, safeguarding and education
legislation.
- To take responsibility for the records of all
student movement. This includes those admitted to the academy, transferring to
other schools and educated off-site and liaising with all relevant staff to
ensure students are correctly on roll.
- To develop active partnerships with agencies
to promote attendance and admissions strategies e.g. Local Authority,
Government Agencies, Health and Children’s Services, voluntary groups and
parent/carer organisations.
- To keep up to date around national initiatives
and good practice as it relates to attendance and admissions strategies.
- When required, provide support for the student
admissions appeal process, in liaison with the Local Authority and in line with
the Trust’s policy and legislation.
- To provide information, advice and guidance
(both internally and externally), and answer routine queries from internal and
external enquirers, in line with the Trust’s policies and attendance
procedures.
- You may also be asked to support home visits.
Home visits are generally conducted with another member of the pastoral team.
- Support health and safety and safeguarding
procedures by ensuring paper copes of registers are available in the event of
systems failures.
- To take a proactive approach to supporting
student attendance, this may include ad hoc tasks such as duties, patrolling
areas of the school at key times or other ways of supporting the pastoral team
with ensuring students are present in all possible lessons.
- To complete casework relating to penalty
notice referrals and prosecution to the LA.