Attendance and Welfare Officer

Tgat; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Betriebliche Altersvorsorge

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work scheme (£2k)

Job summary

The Ruth Gorse Academy, part of The GORSE Academies Trust in Leeds, seeks a dedicated Attendance Officer to promote attendance and punctuality and support students to achieve their potential.

You will monitor attendance data, develop intervention plans, and work with families, pastoral leaders and external agencies to remove barriers to attendance. A proactive, compassionate approach is essential.

Qualifications

• Full clean driving licence.
• Experience with young people, ideally in a secondary school.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for students, parents, colleagues and external agencies.
• Strong understanding of attendance processes and safeguarding responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Promote excellent attendance and punctuality across the academy.
• Monitor attendance data and support intervention strategies.
• Conduct home visits where required and liaise with families to remove barriers to attendance.
• Work with pastoral leaders and external agencies to improve student outcomes.

Skills

Attendance data analysis

Communication skills

Building relationships

Safeguarding knowledge

Impactful interventions

Driving licence

Job description

Please note: We have two vacancies available for this role. One post is available immediately, and a second post will commence in January 2027.

The Ruth Gorse Academy is seeking to appoint a dedicated, resilient and highly motivated Attendance 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.

Potential applicants should 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.

Joining The Ruth Gorse Academy means becoming part of a dedicated and supportive team that is committed to excellence, inclusion and ensuring every student has the opportunity to succeed. If you are passionate about making a lasting difference and want to be part of an academy on a strong and exciting journey of improvement, we would love to hear from you.

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: Working as part of The GORSE Academies Trust, The Ruth Gorse Academy ensures that students receive an outstanding education that focuses on aspiration, high expectations and personalisation. Together these non-negotiable values instil in young people a self-belief that enables students to access the highest standard of higher education provision and employment. We believe that poverty and deprivation should, in no way, limit either the quality of a young person’s educational experience or the levels of achievement to which those students are able to rise. In October 2023, the exceptional nature of our work at The Ruth Gorse Academy was again recognised by Ofsted and demonstrated within our GCSE results. We continue to be heavily oversubscribed year on year, as we deliver high quality education for each and every student.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and we welcome applications from people with disabilities as defined by the Equality Act. If you would benefit from any adjustments during the application or interview process, please inform us so we can support you appropriately.

We arecommitted to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.

Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK – either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.

Please note that, as a sponsor licence holder, we only provide sponsorship for teacher vacancies.

Hours: 37 Hours Per Week, Term Time Only + 1 Working Week

Interview Date: To be confirmed