Attendance Manager

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Attendance Manager to join our dedicated team and play a key part in the continual development of monitoring and tracking student attendance.

You will be able to identify the factors that are impeding good attendance, co-producing an integration plan that would be implemented in partnership with the internal team to create sustained improvement of attendance.

Outstanding communication skills are required, as this role can link in with outside agencies and charities and create sessions for parents within school to look at factors such as parenting (Malachi), the Solihull Approach, sleep, bullying, SEND, illness and behaviour.

In this role, you will:

• Carry out all attendance tracking, data analysis, and home visits and administer the ELIT processes, information evenings, etc.
• Lead on whole-school campaigns with staff and quality assure the effectiveness of these campaigns
• Ensure that signposting of the importance of attendance is visible across the school and on the agenda of every meeting
• Liaise with families and establish an integration plan/action plan for targeted students to improve attendance in light of any push/pull factors identified
• Liaise with the wider Pastoral team, ensuring any pastoral support agreed in any integration plan is actioned and its effectiveness monitored
• Work with SEND TAs to support teachers in lessons to help find ways to fill in any learning gaps that any low attendance may have created for students with low attendance
• Maintain overall responsibility for managing the Attendance team and quality assuring their work
• Celebrate and reward students who make positive progress
• Develop and enhance the practice of others
• Strategically lead and oversee Refocus, ensuring its continued growth

About us

At the heart of Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, Bournville School has been on a clear trajectory – making small daily steps that result in big changes. Located in the south of Birmingham, the Academy serves students from Reception to Year 11 from the wider community, many of whom are from disadvantaged backgrounds. The school has a collective spirit and is committed to delivering an engaging curriculum, inspiring children to achieve and, ultimately, “enriching the lives and transforming the futures” of our young people.

Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust

At Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, we enrich lives and transform futures. Our four academies in and around Birmingham offer an outstanding quality of education, recognising that all our children are individuals and delivering exceptional pastoral care to ensure their happiness. Whilst we place strong emphasis on academic achievement, we take a holistic view of education and maintain exciting extracurricular programmes to create the well-rounded young adults of tomorrow. We’re also creating outstanding careers that could take you anywhere within our network – and take your future anywhere you want to go.

Benefits

When you join Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, you join a nurturing family where your professional satisfaction and personal happiness really count. You can expect heavy investment in your career development alongside an outstanding package of benefits, including:

• Educational support
• Flexi perks
• Salary sacrifice scheme
• Perkbox subscription
• Professional learning and regular training
• Counselling, Mental Health First Aiders and access to a Wellness Hub
• Wellbeing updates and stress management guidance
• Menopause awareness training
• Free flu jabs
• Access to fitness programmes, including yoga, HIIT and more
• Access to physical activities during our Trust-wide Wellbeing Week
• Diet and nutrition webinars

Closing date: 25 September 2024.

Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will therefore be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as well as providing evidence of qualifications.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974