Deputy Attendance Officer

Start Date: September 2024

Hours: 36.5 hours per week, term time only

Salary: Grade 3, Point 9-22 (FTE £25,119p.a. – £31,364p.a.) Actual salary is £22,208p.a. - £27,729p.a.

The point of the scale will be assessed dependent on experience and qualifications.

Status: Fixed Term

Summit Learning Trust Mission Statement

Success through Endeavour

Ambition through Challenge

Strength through Diversity

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Academy for a highly motivated and enthusiastic person to join our team as a Deputy Attendance Officer. Working under the Attendance Lead, you will be expected to provide a support service to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our learners. Based in our Attendance office, you will provide a specialist support service to help the school in raising achievement by improving school attendance and punctuality and to meet our attendance targets. 

The successful candidate will have experience of supporting learners in a school environment and knowledge of school attendance legislation. You will take ensure registers are marked correctly and on-time, keep our attendance data up to date, as well as having responsibility for establishing the reasons for non-attendance, making assessments and agreeing plans for facilitating a return to school using appropriate strategies within specified timescales. The role also requires the provision of information to the Education Welfare Service (EWS) in relation to our statutory responsibilities, as well as creating reports and submitting data to the DFE and appropriate bodies, to ensure the school is fully compliant at all times.

About our school

Cockshut Hill School (rated Good with Outstanding features in our recent Ofsted inspection) is part of the Summit Learning Trust comprising Cockshut Hill, Lyndon School, Ninestiles, an Academy, four primary schools and the Solihull Sixth Form College. Our trust’s Professional Learning Institute offers all of our staff opportunities to collaborate with great educators from across our sector. Our school provides a friendly and supportive working environment, valuing each and every individual. We are committed to providing our learners with the best education they need to become confident, articulate and successful adults in the future. We have a very reflective teaching staff body who welcome feedback from parents, carers and learners to secure the needs of all learners. We are one of the few schools in Birmingham to receive The Rights Respecting Schools, UNICEF UK Gold Award, for successfully embedding children’s rights throughout the school in our practices and ethos. There is a strong culture of safeguarding and staff work positively with the leadership team to ensure learners are kept safe.

This is an exciting time for our school as we strive to improve and are proud of our commitment to teaching and learning - our school motto is ‘Nothing But the Best’.

Why work for us?

We offer a range of wellbeing and work-life balance benefits to recognise and reward the essential contributions our colleagues make to our success and growth. These include access to:

• Employee assistance programme
• High quality training and support in and across academies enabling career progression
• Wellbeing Advocates
• Lifestyle benefits and discount schemes, including gym discounts and cycle to work scheme
• Health Protection Scheme alongside Flu Jab and Eyecare Vouchers
• Generous employer pension schemes
• Excellent Holiday Entitlement

    Closing Date: 12pm 4th July 2024

    Interview Date: 11th July 2024

This is role is a fixed term contract until 18 July 2025 or upon the return of the post-holder.

We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. Summit Learning Trust is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or race.

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all colleagues to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, including a Children’s barred list check. Online searches of shortlisted candidates will also be conducted. Our policy is available to view here https://summitlearningtrust.org.uk/our-trust/statutory-information/policies-statements/