Attendance and Educational Improvement Officer

An opportunity has arisen for the appointment of an Attendance and Educational Improvement Officer at Richard Lander School. The main purpose of this role is to contribute to raising achievement by improving school attendance. To assist the school in meeting their obligations and targets in relation to school attendance, especially punctuality and persistent absence. To help identify target groups of students and monitor patterns of absence. To promote positive attitudes by students and families towards education and to ensure that parents/carers are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities. To attend attendance monitoring meetings within school and organise meetings with parents. 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 to 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. To support the attendance administration officer with regards to ensuring registers are completed accurately and in good time. If you would like to discuss the post further or arrange a visit to the school please contact Mrs Harrison, Personnel Manager, on 01872 273750 or email vharrison@richardlander.cornwall.sch.uk.

Our school is welcoming and supportive, with a strong value placed on ‘being the best you can be’ and staff and students on a mission to achieve great outcomes for all our students. 

We hope after reading our details and person specification that you will want to join our team.

This position is full time and permanent and is available immediately, although a start date can be negotiated.