Attendance Admin Assistant — Impactful, Term-Time

Lift Firth Park; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

Lift Firth Park is seeking an Attendance Admin Assistant for a term-time role. You will support the Attendance Team, track student attendance, maintain records and assist with events and reception duties, helping to remove barriers to education.

The role emphasises safeguarding, confidentiality and strong administrative skills within a supportive school community that values inclusion and pupil welfare.

Qualifications

• Strong administrative skills with high attention to detail.
• Empathetic and approachable communication with parents, carers, staff and pupils.
• Proficiency with administrative software, spreadsheets and MIS.
• Ability to balance attendance priorities with reception duties and admin requests.
• Commitment to inclusion, safeguarding and pupil welfare.
• Knowledge of UK DfE attendance guidance and its impact on safeguarding.
• Experience recording, monitoring and reporting attendance data in MIS.
• Must already have the right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Support Attendance Team by handling daily attendance inquiries and updating student records.
• Draft and distribute internal/external communications, monitor school email, assist with admissions and appeals.
• Uphold safeguarding policies and maintain confidentiality in administrative processes.

Skills

Administrative skills

Empathetic communication

Tech proficiency

Adaptability & initiative

Inclusion & safeguarding

UK attendance guidance knowledge

Attendance data/MIS experience

Right to work in UK

Job description

Lift Firth Park is seeking an Attendance Admin Assistant for a term-time role. You will support the Attendance Team, track student attendance, maintain records and assist with events and reception duties, helping to remove barriers to education.

The role emphasises safeguarding, confidentiality and strong administrative skills within a supportive school community that values inclusion and pupil welfare.