Pupil Premium Attendance Officer

Job Title

Pupil Premium Attendance Officer

Location

St Mary’s Catholic College

Responsible To

Deputy Headteacher

Salary Grade

Band F, Scale point 12-17 £27,711 - £30,060 - (£24,663 - £26,754 actual)

Contract

This is a 2 year fixed-term contract from the starting date, 36 hours per week, 40 weeks per year (term time plus 2 weeks)

Start date

As soon as possible

Closing date for applications

Friday 20th December 2024 at 12.00pm

Interviews to be held in January 2025

The governors of St Mary’s Catholic College would like to invite applications from excellent, enthusiastic and engaging individuals for the post of Pupil Premium Attendance Officer.

This is a unique opportunity to work for the Holy Family Multi Academy Trust. This post will be based at St Mary’s Catholic College. 

Attendance is a key component for students’ attainment and wellbeing. The successful candidate will establish and develop a professional service to support the school in raising attendance, investigating persistent absences and improving punctuality. The successful candidate will advise the school on strategies to promote the regular and punctual attendance of all students and assist with the implementation of the strategies.

Key duties of the post are:

• To contribute to raising achievement by improving school attendance 

• To provide a specialist service to assist the school in meeting their obligations and targets in relation to school attendance, especially persistent absence

• To promote positive attitudes by students and families towards education and to ensure that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities

• To make unsupervised contact with families in their own homes, and elsewhere, to assess the reasons impacting on the attendance of individual students, facilitating their return or access to regular full time education provision 

• To establish and develop a professional service to support the school in raising attendance, investigating persistent absences and improving punctuality

We can offer you: 

• A supportive, friendly working environment 
• A team committed to supporting professional development
• Enthusiastic young people who love coming to school
• An experienced and motivated staff team
• A school with high aspirations for its students and staff

 We would like you to: 

• Be a positive role model for all members of the school community
• Be able to work well with young children and confident in establishing secure relationships
• Have high expectations of yourself and our students
• Be able to work flexibly as part of a team

In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, Holy Family Multi Academy Trust will undertake general online searches for all shortlisted candidates, this may include social media and video platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Online searches will only examine data that is publicly available, and the aim is to identify any incidents or issues. Any areas of concern will be discussed during the interview process.

The Trust is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, marital status, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or pregnancy/maternity. All applicants invited to interview must evidence their right to work in the UK. 

To apply for this position, please send a covering letter, a completed application form and the completed recruitment documents attached to the vacancy listing for the attention of Mr Kevin Maddocks, Headteacher to recruitment@hfcmat.com.

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised closing date, so please apply as soon as you can.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and individually take responsibility for doing so.