Attendance & Community Officer

Archway Learning Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Archway Learning Trust seeks an organised administrator for the Nottingham academy to support attendance, pastoral administration and general office duties. You will monitor attendance and punctuality, work with families and external agencies, and maintain records to support student welfare.

You will use SIMS.net for data entry and reporting, contribute to behaviour monitoring, and assist with student IEP development as part of a coordinated support team.

Qualifications

• Experience with school administration systems is desirable.
• Ability to maintain confidential information with discretion.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Attendance: Contribute to implementation, organisation and monitoring of attendance and punctuality targets.
• Visit students where attendance is poor and liaise with families to improve attendance.
• Challenge unauthorised absence and conduct home visits to address non-attendance.
• Develop relationships with agencies (EHE, CME, EWS) to support attendance initiatives.
• Handle enquiries related to attendance from students, parents, and staff.
• Provide guidance to SLT on attendance and community matters.

Job description

Attendance

• Contribute to the implementation,organisation and monitoring of all student attendance and punctualitymatters in order that targets are met;
• Be responsible for visiting studentswhere poor attendance and punctuality is a factor. Develop innovativeand new ways of encouraging families to make attendance and punctuality at theAcademy a top priority.
• Challenge unauthorised absenceincluding the responsibility for home visits to investigate and challengenon-attendance.
• Develop and maintain effective andproductive working relationships with all relevant agencies in relation toattendance, including family support workers, Elective Home Education Team(EHE) and Children MissingEducation Team (CME) (within Nottingham LA) in order to work collaborativelytogether.
• Be responsible for referrals to theEducational Welfare Service (EWS) on all formal non-attendanceprocedures. Work with appropriate staff todevelop individual action plans to improve attendance/punctuality withindividual students when their attendance/punctuality gives cause for concern.
• Be responsible for enquiries relatingto attendance and punctuality by students, parents/carers and staff.
• Develop specialist knowledge ofattendance and punctuality issues and best practice and provide advice andguidance to the SLT on matters relating to attendance and community matters

Pastoral Administration

• Assist with student welfare duties
• Be proficient and responsible forusing the Academy behaviour monitoring software (Go4Schools) andproviding meaningful and accurate reports on student behaviour on a daily,weekly, termly and annual basisto support with the rewards and sanctions for the Academy.
• Work with relevant Academy colleagueson the development of student IEPs.

General Administration

• Toundertake a comprehensive range of administration tasks, ensuring that work isprioritised and deadlines are met.
• Undertake general office duties, answering general telephone calls and face toface enquiries, photocopying, minute taking, etc.
• Enter and retrieve data relating to students onto the SIMS.net database andother software packages asrequired. Produce statistical reports from SIMS.net and other databasepackages.