Attendance Officer

ARK SCHOOLS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Training days

Ark network resources

Job summary

ARK SCHOOLS is seeking a Secondary Attendance Officer for King Solomon Academy to manage daily attendance administration, monitor punctuality, and foster strong relationships with pupils and families. The role focuses on removing barriers to learning and ensuring consistent school attendance.

The successful candidate will be data-driven, highly organized and committed to creating the best climate for learning, leveraging Ark's wide network and professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• The role requires strong organisational and data-driven approach.
• Ability to build relationships with pupils, families and professionals.
• Commitment to improving pupil attendance and punctuality.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day attendance administration and monitoring of pupil attendance and punctuality.
• Build excellent relationships to promote attendance and remove barriers to learning.
• Ensure pupils attend school regularly and benefit from opportunities.

Job description

About The Role

Ensuring every pupil comes to school every day is our core business. We have to be able to work together with children, their families and wider networks of professionals across the community to make it possible for every child to want to come to school every day because they feel safe, happy and successful in our care. The Secondary Attendance Officer makes this possible through leading the day-to-day administration and monitoring or pupils’ attendance and punctuality and building excellent relationships to promote attendance and remove barriers to learning.

The successful candidate will be highly organised, data-driven and committed to ensuring that every pupil attends school regularly and benefits from the opportunities available at King Solomon Academy.

Benefits

We believe in aiming high, working together, being kind and leading the way. Through weekly individual coaching, year group intellectual preparation time and whole school PD, we invest in your growth and development as a teacher to ensure you can excel in creating the best possible climate for learning for our pupils to thrive in. Through our approach to professional development we can promise a successful candidate a positive and rewarding journey of growth. Through shared weekly and long-term planning, a large number of training days and access to the resources and opportunities in the Ark network, we are able to support our teachers to thrive.

Find out more about the benefits of working for Ark atarkonline.org/careers/why-work-with-us/

About Us

We are a genuine all-through school, with our pupils staying with us from nursery to sixth form across two sites, ten minutes-walk apart. Because of this, we have a unique opportunity to have a long term and dramatic impact on our pupils’ lives. This all starts in our primary school, where our pupils develop, and grow a love of learning. We have a strong track-record as a school in making a significant impact on our pupils’ lives. We adopt a mastery approach in primary, meaning that our pupils have more time and explicit teaching of the skills and concepts that underpin long term success in academics, enriched by a varied and cultural capital enhancing curriculum which inspires and engages our pupils. Our specialist teaching model allows pupils to benefit from expert teaching in PE, music, art, humanities and science and means all staff have time to plan each subject properly. In September 2019 we merged with Ark Paddington Green Academy and combined to form one all-through King Solomon Academy with Nursery-Year 4 on our Younger Years Site (Crompton Street) and Year 5 - Year 13 on the Older Years Site (Penfold Street). In May 2021, we opened a purpose-built nursery for 2-4 year olds. Our Younger Years Site has generous outdoor space, including a beautiful global food garden and a woodland garden where we run Forest School in EYFS and KS1. UKS2 pupils benefit from all the resources of sharing a site with secondary: a huge MUGA, basketball courts, science labs, specialist music equipment and so on.

Visit kingsolomonacademy.org/jobsto learn more about us.

Diversity and inclusion

We aim to build a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone – staff and students – can do their best work and achieve their full potential. We want to reflect and represent diverse perspectives across our organisation because we know that doing so will make us stronger and more effective. To know more about Ark’s diversity and inclusion commitments, please click on this link.

Safeguarding statement

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants. Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click this link.