Attendance Officer (Remote / UK)
Minerva’s Virtual Academy
Remote
- £22,000 - £25,000 per year
- New
- Expiring soon
- Quick apply
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- February 2025 (or soon after)
- Apply by:
- 19 December 2024
Job overview
Attendance Officer
Location: Remote/Term Time Only plus an additional 10 days (Office visits required 4 times a year - London)
All MVA staff are expected to embody the Ways of Being in their work with us, to be mindful of their safeguarding responsibility for all students, and to ensure they are familiar with and confident in the implementation of school policies.
MVA is committed to creating a diverse workforce. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, age, disability, marriage or civil partnership.
We are seeking to appoint an experienced and proactive Attendance Officer to join our vibrant school team. This is an exciting opportunity to utilise valuable experience in our online school which has a diverse student body where students are located within and outside the UK and which offers a flexible approach to learning.
You will need to be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities, ensuring that you deliver a professional and efficient service when dealing with parents/carers, staff, and external agencies; therefore excellent interpersonal skills are essential.
Analytical skills are also crucial to the role in order to monitor and analyse attendance data and report on trends. Good working knowledge of ISAMs or a similar management system, CPOMs (or similar) and Excel would also be advantageous.
Main purpose
- To monitor and report on whole-school attendance data, analysing data to identify key areas of concern
- To work closely with SLT, staff, parents and carers to reduce levels of absence, and act appropriately when persistent absence becomes a safeguarding issue
- To provide a high quality, responsive service to students faced with welfare and safeguarding issues, in accordance with statutory responsibilities and support the DSL making referrals to appropriate agencies when required
- To support the transfer of safeguarding information for students transitioning to the school
- To support the information sharing between schools for dual-enrolled students
- Flexibility to meet rapidly changing priorities and accommodate the needs of our diverse community
Please see the attached Job Description for full role details.
Attached documents
About Minerva’s Virtual Academy
- Minerva’s Virtual Academy
- 3space International House, Canterbury Crescent
- London
- SW9 7QD
- United Kingdom
Experience the award-winning online school for 11 - 18 year olds
World-class virtual schooling built on personal mentoring and community, run by teachers from the UK's top schools, and proudly accredited by the Department for Education (read the full report here)
We are the perfect school for modern times - combining smart technology and engaging online resources with one-to-one support, active group learning and exciting multi-disciplinary projects.
We offer pupils the flexibility to learn from the comfort of their home, anywhere in the world, while ensuring they develop the social skills required to live fulfilling lives and succeed in the workplaces of the future.
The skills we champion are self-sufficiency, collaboration, problem-solving, creative and critical thinking, leadership, and mindfulness.
We operate term dates broadly in line with those in the independent school sector.
Our curriculum for Years 7 and 8 takes advantage of Key Stage 3's flexibility. Alongside the foundational curriculum, students encounter a diverse array of topics. The key stage 3 curriculum combines the Inner core subjects of English, Maths, and Science (Cambridge Lower Secondary) and the outer core is made up of History, French, German, Spanish, Global Perspectives, Digital Literacy, PSHE, Classical Civilisation, Computing, Music and Art & Design.
Pupils commonly study between 5 and 9 subjects in Years 9-11 and 3 - 4 subjects in Years 12-13. These include a combination of the core subjects: Maths, English Language, English Literature, Biology, Chemistry and Physics - and electives: Geography, History, Business Studies, Psychology, Global Citizenship, Computer Science, French, Spanish, Art and Music. All of our courses (with the exception of Psychology, Art and Music) are IGCSEs awarded by either Cambridge or Pearson Edexcel.
How Pupils Learn
Minerva’s Virtual Academy is underpinned by ‘four pillars’. These are: a virtual learning platform, live lessons, mentoring and community. As part of this offer, all pupils receive weekly one-to-one mentoring sessions and, through the virtual learning platform, can communicate with their mentors at any time. Community plays a key role at Minerva’s Virtual Academy. Pupils attend weekly assemblies and can participate in a wide range of after-school clubs.
The curriculum at Minerva’s Virtual Academy is delivered through a ‘flipped learning’ model. This involves pupils undertaking interactive self-study on the virtual learning platform before attending live lessons.
Alongside the taught curriculum, pupils participate in an extensive well-being programme. Designed to support pupils’ personal and academic growth, wellbeing sessions help pupils manage their own health, relationships, emotional intelligence and communication skills.
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