ATTENDANCE AND WELFARE OFFICER

The GORSE Academies Trust; Boston Spa; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Boston Spa Academy, part of The GORSE Academies Trust, is seeking an Attendance and Welfare Officer to join our pastoral team. The role focuses on improving attendance, punctuality and student wellbeing, working with students, families and external agencies to remove barriers to learning.

The ideal candidate will have a driving licence, experience with young people in a secondary setting, and strong communication skills to foster positive relationships and deliver targeted interventions.

Qualifications

• Full clean driving licence required.
• Experience supporting young people in a secondary school setting preferred.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with students, parents, staff and external agencies.
• Strong understanding of attendance processes, safeguarding responsibilities and attendance impact factors.
• Ability to analyse attendance data and inform targeted interventions.
• Passion and resilience to improve student outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Promote and monitor student attendance and punctuality across the academy.
• Collect and review attendance data; support intervention strategies to remove barriers.
• Conduct home visits when needed and coordinate with families and external agencies.
• Build positive relationships with parents/carers to improve engagement and attendance.
• Work with pastoral leaders to support wellbeing and safeguarding across the academy.

Skills

Driving license

Attendance data analysis

Communication & interpersonal

Safeguarding awareness

Engagement with parents/carers

Job description

Start date to be agreed with the successful candidate

Boston Spa Academy is seeking to appoint a dedicated, resilient and highly motivated Attendance and Welfare Officer to join our pastoral team. This is a key role within the academy, focused on promoting excellent attendance and punctuality, ensuring that every student has the opportunity to achieve their full potential.

The successful candidate will work closely with students, families, pastoral leaders and external agencies to identify and remove barriers to attendance. They will monitor attendance data, support intervention strategies, conduct home visits where required and build positive relationships with parents and carers to improve outcomes for young people. The role demands a proactive and compassionate individual who is committed to making a difference in the lives of students and ensuring high levels of attendance across the academy.

The Ideal Candidate Will Have

• A full clean driving license.
• Experience of working with young people and supporting them to overcome barriers to success, ideally within a secondary school environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with students, parents/carers, colleagues and external agencies.
• A strong understanding of attendance processes, safeguarding responsibilities and the factors that can impact student attendance and wellbeing.
• The ability to analyse attendance data effectively and use this information to inform targeted intervention strategies.
• A passion for improving outcomes for young people, together with the drive, resilience and determination to make a positive difference to students’ lives.

What We Offer You

As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:

• Membership of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role.
• A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• £2k Cycle to work scheme.

About Us

At Boston Spa Academy, our central focus is to empower our students to develop their character to help them to grow into confident, kind and well-mannered young adults. Our school cultivates an environment that allows our students to explore what excites them and fulfil their ambitions, both inside and outside the classroom. In doing so, it equips students to secure the ‘Gift of Choice’ and impact positively on the wider society.

Our community is built on kindness, respect, hard work and aspiration and our enabler to achieving this are the academy core values – Participation, Purpose, Positivity, Professionalism and Principled. Developed in partnership with our students, staff body, parents/carers and governors, we are proud that the core values permeate through our academy, in all aspects of our work and day-to-day life. Through our core values, our vision is that Boston Spa Academy will positively impact the lives of those that attend our academy, now and long after they leave us.

Students at Boston Spa Academy achieve exceptionally well at both GCSE and A Level. With a GCSE Progress 8 score which has been ‘Well Above Average’ for the past 3 academic years, students make excellent progress within their academic studies and progress to the Post-16 destination of their choice. The majority of our students choose to remain at our own sixth form provision, Elliott Hudson College Boston Spa. We are a popular and growing sixth form with a culture of academic success based on our vision of ‘Character; Ambition; Excellence’.

At Boston Spa Academy, we are proud that, in our recent Ofsted inspection graded “Outstanding”, it was commented that ‘staff feel valued and are proud to be members of the school’. The report also recognises that ‘leaders are highly supportive’ and ‘proactively seek to manage workload and support the well-being of staff’. As well as feeling part of a community with a common purpose, our professional body also benefits from outstanding CPD and support which is personalised to your particular needs and experience.

If you would like to know more about our academy please visit our website at Boston Spa Academy.