Grade and Salary:  Grade 6: £29,116 - £32,210 actual salary per annum pro rata
(£33,699 – £37,280 FTE)

Working pattern: 37 hours per week / 39 weeks per year (TTO plus INSET days)

Contract term: Permanent

The role

Are you an experienced attendance professional with strong people skills and a passion for improving outcomes for young people? Do you have the confidence and empathy to support families, and the resilience to tackle barriers to attendance head‑on? We are ambitious for every student to attend regularly, thrive and access opportunities that enhance their life choices. Does this sound like you? If so, we invite you to join our team as Senior Attendance Welfare Officer.

As Senior Attendance Welfare Officer, you will play a pivotal role in supporting whole‑school attendance through effective office‑based coordination, direct work with families, and close collaboration with external agencies. You will be working on targeted attendance interventions, ensuring families receive timely, preventative support that promotes sustainable engagement.

Also working closely with the Safeguarding Team, you will be helping to implement student and family engagement strategies that remove barriers and build trust.

You will also provide leadership within the Attendance and Welfare Team, supporting deputising for the Attendance and Inclusion Manager when required.

Why join us?

There are many reasons to choose The Two Counties Trust as a great place to start or continue your career.

We recognise the importance of a happy, healthy, rewarded and well motivated workforce and as such we have developed our HR strategy to invest in our employees. We have removed appraisal and appraisal related pay progression, changing the focus from validation to professional growth and enabling all our employees to get better all the time.

We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within schools and across the Trust and we offer extensive professional learning opportunities for all employees.

We offer:

·  Highly competitive pay and pay progression opportunities.

·  We do not operate appraisal or appraisal related pay progression. All employees participate in our Professional Learning Scheme which supports colleagues to develop their expertise and benefit from valuable professional learning.

·  An array of employee benefits and lifestyle options including discounted healthcare, gym membership and extensive high street retail discounts.

·  Entry to a career average pension scheme.

·  Opportunities to experience and share practice in our partner schools across the Trust.

·  A stimulating, supportive and rewarding working environment with a dedicated team of like-minded professionals.

·  Excellent opportunities to develop your skills and experience and to progress your career.

·  We take the wellbeing and health of employees seriously. We have a range of support mechanisms and benefits available to employees and the Trust has signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter.

Applications must arrive by:   Tuesday 05 May 2026 at 9am.

Interviews will be held on:      Tuesday 12 May 2026.

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory enhanced level DBS disclosure with a children’s barred list check, two satisfactory references and successful completion of vetting procedures.

In accordance with the statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted as part of due diligence on shortlisted candidates and a social media check will be required as a condition of employment.

We are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and candidates with a disability who meet the essential job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.