Attendance Improvement Manager

Teaching Vacancies; Bedworth; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym on site

Bike to work scheme

Weekly staff breakfasts

Job summary

Nicholas Chamberlaine School is seeking an Attendance Improvement Manager to lead the day-to-day attendance operation and improve punctuality across the school.

The postholder will lead the Attendance Team and work closely with the Deputy Headteacher responsible for Attendance, pastoral leaders, safeguarding, SEND, pupils, families and external agencies.

Qualifications

• Experienced attendance professional with knowledge, confidence and leadership skills to take ownership of day‑to‑day attendance operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Attendance Team and work with the Deputy Headteacher responsible for Attendance.
• Ensure actions are completed on time and staff understand their responsibilities.
• Provide senior leaders with accurate, timely attendance information.

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Attendance Improvement Manager will lead the operational delivery of attendance across Nicholas Chamberlaine School, ensuring that robust systems, processes and interventions are in place to improve attendance and punctuality and reduce persistent and severe absence.

This is a key management role within the school. The postholder will lead and manage the Attendance Team and work closely with the Deputy Headteacher responsible for Attendance, pastoral leaders, safeguarding, SEND, pupils, families and external agencies.

The successful candidate will be an experienced attendance professional with the knowledge, confidence and leadership skills to take ownership of the school's day-to-day attendance operation. They will ensure that agreed actions happen consistently and on time, staff understand and fulfil their responsibilities and senior leaders have accurate and timely information about attendance.

What the school offers its staff

Nicholas Chamberlaine School is committed to challenging educational and social disadvantage and aims to instil in students the ability to think critically and creatively.

The experience of working for Nicholas Chamberlaine School, and The Griffin Schools Trust, is unique. You will receive challenge and support to become expert in your field, develop the highest-level leadership skills and benefit from the wisdom of an extended family of supportive colleagues. There are excellent opportunities to work with peers and senior Trust staff on elements of our secondary strategy, to engage in leadership training as well as join a research-based Masters Programme.

We engage in a wide variety of Proud Traditions and experiences, including The Griffin Sports Festival, Arts Festival and Science Symposium, which give our community an exceptional breadth of experience.

• We never use all of 1265
• We have reduced data drops to allow for more teaching and learning.
• We do not roll over the timetable in the summer term, instead we give staff time to work on core priorities and provide staff with essential CPD.
• We have disaggregated 2 teacher training days so that staff can take part in the Effective Formative Assessment programme twilight sessions.
• Curriculum planning is centralised within departments, allowing teachers to focus on adapting from base lessons, rather than having to create from scratch.
• We offer excellent professional development opportunities including NPQs and Trust funded Masters programmes, providing time in school to support.
• We encourage and support teachers to become exam markers.
• Departments are given at least 3 meeting per half term to share practice and subject knowledge.
• We minimise emails by having one Staff Comms per week and one MLT comms per week.
• All detentions are centralised to allow teachers more time to prep.
• We support staff to balance the needs of family life with part time and flexible contracts and paid/unpaid time off.
• All colleagues have free access to a modern gym on site.
• All colleagues can take advantage of the bike to work scheme.
• Weekly staff breakfasts on a Friday.
• Sharing good practice work with other departments.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.