Attendance Officer

The Totteridge Academy; Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

The Totteridge Academy is seeking an Attendance Officer to promote excellent attendance and ensure attendance concerns are identified and addressed quickly and effectively. You will work with students, families and staff to manage attendance, investigate absences, and support safeguarding by escalating concerns as needed.

In this role you will be resilient, well-organised and able to build positive relationships while maintaining high expectations.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to build positive relationships with students, families and staff.
• Resilient, organised and able to manage multiple processes.

Responsibilities

• Promote excellent attendance and identify/address attendance concerns quickly and effectively.
• Manage daily attendance processes and investigate absences.
• Support interventions to remove barriers to learning.
• Escalate safeguarding concerns when unexplained absences arise.

Skills

Excellent communication

Attention to detail

Relationship building

Resilience

Organisation

Job description

Attendance Officer

Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week

Term Time Only (39 weeks per year)

About the role:

As Attendance Officer, you will play a vital role in promoting excellent attendance and ensuring that attendance concerns are identified and addressed quickly and effectively.

Working closely with students, families and colleagues across the academy, you will manage daily attendance processes, investigate attendance concerns, follow up absences and support interventions that help remove barriers to learning. You will also play an important role in safeguarding by ensuring that unexplained absences and attendance concerns are identified, investigated and escalated appropriately.

The role requires excellent communication skills, strong attention to detail and the ability to build positive relationships whilst maintaining high expectations. You will be resilient, organised and committed to ensuring that every student has access to the education they are entitled to.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about supporting young people and making a positive difference to student outcomes through improved attendance and engagement.

About us:

As one of London’s leading secondary schools, The Totteridge Academy has earned national recognition for its high expectations and exceptional achievement. Situated in Barnet, North London, it is a highly popular, co-educational, non-selective 11-18 academy with over 1,000 students, reflecting the school’s continued growth and strong demand for places. The Totteridge Academy has an unusually warm, inclusive and aspirational culture: an ethos of continuous improvement that has created a vibrant, purposeful community where students feel supported, challenged and inspired to achieve their best.

About United Learning:

United Learning is a big group of schools - with over 75,000 pupils and more than 10,000 staff. We seek to improve the life chances of all the children and young people we serve and make it our mission to bring out 'the best in everyone' - pupils, staff, parents and the wider community.