Attendance Support Officer, 41.5 hpw, Mon-Fri, term time plus 3 days, two posts.

Grace College is a place of boundless potential and we are seeking enthusiastic and proactive individuals to help support our students in achieving excellent attendance and becoming successful learners. This is a wonderful opportunity to join our school and engage with students and their families to positively influence and improve attendance. 

As an Attendance Support Officer, you will be responsible to Senior Attendance Lead for:

Supporting the College to raise achievement by improving punctuality and attendance to school, with an emphasis on: 

• carrying out morning duty in the community to ensure students arrive promptly to school.

• from 9.30am carrying out home visits to students who are absent, as directed by the Senior Attendance Lead. This will focus on students who are absent without contact and carrying out welfare checks on those who are absent regularly.

• supporting students to come into school even when they have not arrived on time by providing transport into school, utilising the company vehicles to do so.  

Promote positive attitudes towards school with families and students with an emphasis on: 

• working with families and students to identify barriers to attendance, primarily through home visits and some meetings arranged in school.

• recognising improved attendance by remaining in regular communication with students and their families regarding their attendance.

• working with external agencies where appropriate to provide additional support to families where this may improve attendance to school.

Promote the welfare and safeguarding of all students with an emphasis on: 

• keeping accurate, clear and concise records of all interventions and meetings and update information on the school systems.

• maintaining a good working knowledge of the statutory framework and any policies and procedures relating to school attendance, child employment, child protection and special needs etc. in order to be able to offer informed advice to families.

• being fully aware of and carrying out all work in line with the Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy.

Please refer to the full Job Description for more details.

Join us, and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:

• Defined benefit pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub 
• Daily lunch allowance
• Free parking
• Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)

Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment.  Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.