Attendance Officer - Severndale Specialist Academy

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Severndale Specialist Academy seeks an Attendance Officer to ensure accurate attendance records and support student welfare. The role involves collaboration with the DSL team and requires excellent communication skills and a commitment to safeguarding children. Ideal for an enthusiastic individual looking to advance their career in a supportive SEND environment.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and efficient administrator.
• Ability to communicate effectively with students, families, and staff.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accuracy of attendance registers in line with policies.
• Monitor and promote student attendance.
• Work closely with Lead DSL and DSL team.

Skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Initiative

Job description

Attendance Officer – Starting September 2025

Who are we:

We are committed to demonstrating our school vision of ‘Enabling Communication, Independence and Enjoyment for Life’ through our chosen school values of Communication, Independence, Wellbeing and Inclusivity. We strive to live these values throughout each school day.

Severndale Specialist Academy is a multi-site Academy catering for children with special educational needs in Shropshire. Our children and young people are aged 2 ½ to post-19 and have a range of learning difficulties.These include moderate, severe, complex and profound learning difficulties, those with autism, complex medical conditions and physical and mobility difficulties.A number of our young people present behaviour that can challenge, arising from their condition; many have communication difficulties.

What isthe purpose of the role:

We are currently seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, dedicated and efficient Attendance Officer to join Severndale Specialist Academy. The purpose of this post is to ensure the accuracy of registersin line with the Attendance policy and safeguarding procedures.The successful candidate will have an absolute commitment to working closely with the Lead DSL and wider DSL team to promote, review and monitor all aspects of student attendance. The successful candidate will also have a high regard for confidentiality, an ability to show initiative, and be able to demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail in their work.If you are an efficient administrator who can communicate effectively with students, families and staff in a supportive and calm way, we want to hear from you!

If you want to further your career in an innovative SEND environment, then please complete the application form on our website – www.severndaleacademy.co.uk and forward your information to our HR department at [e-mail]

The Learning Community Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.All post holders working in regulated activity with children, are required to have an enhanced DBS check (including a check on the children’s barred list).

References will be required for all shortlisted candidates, prior to interview and these will be checked following the Learning Community Trust recruitment and selection process. In line with the Statutory Guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education an online check will also be undertaken for all shortlisted candidates prior to the interview.Shortlisted candidates will also be required to complete a criminal self-disclosure declaration, posts that involve working in regulated activity are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, please note it is a criminal offence for individuals on the barred list for children to apply for any post working with children.For more information, please refer to The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, for information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.We are committed to equality and diversity and follow the Safer Recruitment practices as set out in the Statutory Guidance - Keeping Children Safe in Education.

For more information regarding our school’s commitment to safeguarding, please see our website for our school policies

https://severndaleacademy.co.uk/our-school/policies/

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