Attendance Officer – Southampton - Asap Requirement

Marchant Recruitment; Southampton; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Marchant Recruitment is seeking an experienced Attendance Officer for a high-performing secondary school in Southampton. The role focuses on monitoring attendance and punctuality, with duties including contacting parents, identifying patterns, and producing reports.

You should be organised, comfortable handling sensitive information, and capable of working with families and staff. Experience with MIS tools like SIMS, Arbor or Bromcom is highly advantageous.

Qualifications

• Previous experience working within a school is essential, ideally in attendance, pastoral administration or a similar pupil-facing role.
• You should be organised, confident communicating with families and comfortable handling sensitive information.
• Experience using SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom or another school MIS would be highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring daily attendance and punctuality
• Following up unexplained and persistent absence
• Contacting parents and carers
• Identifying attendance patterns
• Maintaining accurate attendance records
• Producing attendance reports
• Supporting attendance interventions
• Working alongside pastoral and safeguarding teams
• Liaising with external agencies where required
• Supporting attendance meetings and reviews

Skills

Communication

Organisation

Safeguarding awareness

Tools

SIMS

Arbor

Bromcom

Job description

Previous School Experience Essential

A high-performing secondary school in Southampton is seeking an experienced Attendance Officer to join its pastoral and safeguarding team.

Previous experience working within a school is essential, ideally in attendance, pastoral administration or a similar pupil-facing role.

You'll monitor attendance closely, identify concerns early and work with students, families and staff to improve attendance and punctuality.

Your Responsibilities

Monitoring daily attendance and punctuality

Following up unexplained and persistent absence

Contacting parents and carers

Identifying attendance patterns

Maintaining accurate attendance records

Producing attendance reports

Supporting attendance interventions

Working alongside pastoral and safeguarding teams

Liaising with external agencies where required

Supporting attendance meetings and reviews

About You

You should be organised, confident communicating with families and comfortable handling sensitive information.

Experience using SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom or another school MIS would be highly advantageous.

If you are shortlisted, you will be contacted within 72 hours.

Attendance Officer – Southampton – ASAP Requirement Southampton, England, United Kingdom