Attendance Officer
RGS Guildford
Surrey
- Expiring soon
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 28 November 2024
Job overview
Working pattern: Term Time + 5 weeks, 0800 – 1600
This is a great opportunity for an individual with relevant experience to join the friendly front office team at this popular boys' school in the heart of Guildford.
The Attendance Officer is responsible for managing and monitoring student attendance, ensuring accurate record-keeping and collaborating with parents/guardians, school staff, and external agencies on attendance matters.
You will have at least six months' experience of school registration, excellent communication skills and a positive attitude.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitor and record student attendance accurately in the school database.
- Liaise with form teachers to follow up on all unexplained absence.
- Log daily notifications from parents/guardians regarding student absences.
- Ensure all absence processes are followed correctly and efficiently.
- Generate and analyse attendance reports and statistics to identify trends and areas for improvement.
- Help ensure the school fulfils its duty of care for pupils by reporting and following up on absence in a timely manner.
- Maintain effective communication to support students with attendance issues.
In return you will receive:
- Circa £28K per annum pro rata (circa £25K actual)
- Term time working (plus five weeks)
- Pension scheme with an employee contribution of 5% and an employer contribution of 10%.
- Medical insurance.
- Fee reduction for son(s) of staff is available (after a qualifying period and subject to success at the entrance examination).
- Interest-free loans for rail season ticket holders.
- Excellent lunchtime menu free of charge during term time.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
The ideal candidate will have recent experience in a similar role. You will be highly organised and self-motivated and work well in a small team environment.
The Royal Grammar School has a responsibility for and commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The person appointed to this post will be required to apply for an enhanced Disclosure Certificate from the DBS.
Register your interest now to receive full details of the role and next steps.
About RGS Guildford
Located in the historic town of Guildford, the Royal Grammar School, dating back to 1509, is a leading independent day school for boys aged 11 – 18. Consistently regarded as one of the top three boys’ schools in the country, the RGS combines academic excellence with a passionate commitment to pastoral care and co-curricular opportunity in a friendly, supportive community of approximately 950 students and 120 teaching staff.
The original Tudor building, constructed between 1557 and 1586, is still used by the students; in addition, development of the site continues to provide facilities conducive to teaching and learning in the 21st century and to performance in all areas at the highest level. The School is committed to nurturing its staff and a structured, bespoke approach to professional development means that the whole community is united in a desire to improve, progress and be enriched.
Headmaster
Dr JM Cox
Values and vision
The RGS believes passionately in preparing our students for the challenges of a rapidly-changing, global future, as well as providing them with excellent foundations so that they can have the most ambitious of aspirations at university and beyond. Our bespoke Learning Habits nurture and develop all those transferable skills which will set up our young men irrespective of their chosen path: thinking critically, being independent and creative, being resilient and self-motivated; collaborating and working together, and being equally confident as leader or as part of a team.
Our timeless School Values – inclusivity; scholarship; integrity; respect; tenacity; and service – which are embedded in the curricular and extra-curricular life of the School ensure RGS students emerge as humble, grounded and decent young men committed to making the very best of each and every opportunity and to making a difference to others.
ISI report
“Pupils show an acute sense of respect for each other and recognise the school’s important role, underpinned by its inclusive values, in creating an academically challenging, positive and welcoming community where they can develop and flourish as true individuals.”
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