Attendance and Welfare Officer

The Gorse Academies Trust; Leeds; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme (teacher/local govt)

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work scheme

Professional development

Job summary

Boston Spa Academy, part of The GORSE Academies Trust, is seeking an Attendance and Welfare Officer to join the pastoral team. The role focuses on promoting attendance, monitoring data, and removing barriers to ensure every student can reach their potential.

The successful candidate will work with students, families and external agencies, conducting home visits as needed and driving proactive attendance strategies across the academy.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Monitor and improve student attendance and punctuality.
• Collaborate with families, pastoral leaders and external agencies to remove barriers to attendance.
• Conduct home visits where required and build positive relationships with parents/carers.
• Support intervention strategies and track progress to improve outcomes.

Skills

Driving license

Work with young people

Communication

Attendance processes

Attendance data analysis

Motivation to improve outcomes

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.

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 are committed 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.

GORSE Policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders

The GORSE Academies Trust use 'OnlineSCR' for the processing of safeguarding checks - their privacy notice can be seen at: https://onlinescr.co.uk/policies/privacy-policy/.

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.