Attendance Officer
Thurstable School
Essex
- £18,114 - £19,053 per year
- New
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- Scale 5
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Autumn Term
- Apply by:
- 27 August 2024
Job overview
Are you passionate about education and eager to make a difference?
Join our team as an Attendance Officer and help us create a thriving, engaged student community.
At Thurstable School, we believe that every student deserves the opportunity to succeed, and regular attendance is a crucial part of this journey. As an Attendance Officer, you will play a vital role in promoting whole school attendance strategies to improve attendance levels and reduce persistent absence. You will monitor, identify, and follow up on pupil absences and lateness and your work will directly contribute to our academy's targets and the overall success of our students.
In this role, you will undertake a variety of responsibilities to ensure the smooth operation of attendance and punctuality processes. You will manage and maintain records related to pupil attendance and punctuality. Your keen eye for detail will ensure the accuracy of data in our school's MIS systems, allowing for the efficient production of reports, letters, and documents as required. Your administrative support will extend to various areas, including the administration of parent fines related to attendance and holiday requests.
Communication with parents will be a key aspect of your role as you will be in regular contact them to address ongoing concerns about a child's absence, lateness, and truancy. Working closely with the Attendance and Safeguarding Manager and Deputy Headteacher you will monitor targets for attendance and punctuality in relation to school context and national expectations.
Why join us at Thurstable School?
You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our students, fostering a positive educational environment where every student can thrive. You will work with a dedicated team of educators and administrative staff who share your commitment to improving student outcomes and ensuring that no student falls through the cracks. We offer opportunities for continuous learning and professional development, ensuring you can grow in your role.
This post is term time only, there may be a few days of work in the last week of the summer holidays, but this will be in agreement with the successful candidate.
Ready to make a difference? Apply now and be part of a team that values every student's success!
Thurstable School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Join us in creating a supportive and engaging educational environment where every student can thrive!
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About Thurstable School
THE SCHOOL
A warm welcome to Thurstable School, a school built on ethos and with a clear aim of building knowledge and growing character. At the heart of everything we do lies our core values of aspire, respect and endeavour, values that are lived and not just laminated.
We are at an exciting time of our development as we strive to be a school of character and academic excellence and are looking forward to helping your child become the best version of themselves and achieve great academic outcomes whilst developing good character.
In the Summer of 2022 the GCSE results were “significantly above average” and in the top 20% of the country (Department for Education) and we are unashamedly clear that academic scholarship, reading and writing are at the heart of our curriculum.
We have the wonderful Thurstable Loves To Read programme as well as our innovative Morning Meeting programme based upon cognitive science and are committed that all students leave us with a reading age that matches their chronological age.
Equally important to our ethos is growing character and one of our mantras is “true character is doing the right thing when no one is looking”. We believe that character is taught, caught and sought and are committed to providing as many opportunities for the students to make memories from foreign exchanges, musical productions, Duke of Edinburgh schemes and numerous sporting opportunities.
We are committed to our mission statement of "Building Knowledge, Growing Character". We won’t get everything right, but we will always be honest, be led by our values and learn from the best schools in the country to make ours better.
OUR VALUES
Our core values ARE Thurstable. The values of Aspire, Respect and Endeavour are part of our DNA and inform all of our interactions and decisions at the school.
These values underpin our daily routines and are experienced in everything from the calm and purposeful atmosphere to the way our students interact with each other, staff and guests. We actively teach and role model these values and are very much part of our unique character curriculum.
We use the idea of 'Phronesis' to guide us. Phronesis is practical wisdom, a virtue which allows us to make the right decisions at the right time for the right reasons.
We expect our students and staff to use phronesis in their daily life at Thurstable.
ASPIRE
We aspire to the best jobs, college and university places
- We aim to achieve the highest outcomes possible
- We pursue excellence and seek recognition
- We take risks and love learning
- We are curious and ask questions
RESPECT
We respect ourselves, others and the environment
- We are respectful, polite and courteous at all times
- We are on time and we have the right equipment
- We treat others in our diverse community as we wish to be treated
- We always follow instructions: first time, every time
- We are kind
ENDEAVOUR
We work hard to achieve success
- We focus on the tasks in hand and tackle them conscientiously
- We have the resilience, tenacity and grit to keep going when others give up
- We represent the school and participate fully in school life
- We support others to achieve
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