Attendance & Welfare Officer

Teaching Vacancies; Leeds; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Teacher/Local government pension

Career development investment

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

The Ruth Gorse Academy is seeking a dedicated Attendance Officer to promote excellent attendance and punctuality, ensuring every student has the opportunity to reach their full potential. You will work with students, families, pastoral leaders and external agencies to remove barriers to attendance and monitor attendance data for targeted interventions.

The role requires a proactive, compassionate individual with strong communication skills and a commitment to safeguarding and improving outcomes

Qualifications

• Experience of working with young people in a secondary school environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong understanding of attendance processes and safeguarding responsibilities.
• Ability to analyse attendance data to inform interventions.
• Passion for improving outcomes for young people.

Responsibilities

• Monitor attendance data and identify patterns.
• Support intervention strategies to improve attendance and punctuality.
• Conduct home visits when required and liaise with families.
• Build positive relationships with parents and carers and external agencies.

Skills

Experience with young people

Communication skills

Attendance data analysis

Interpersonal skills

Driving licence

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/schrole_d5c98f6c-4e28-48d1-8659-3b0fa91d2517The Ruth Gorse Academy is seeking to appoint a dedicated, resilient and highly motivated Attendance Officer to join our pastoral team. This is a key role within the academy, focused on promoting excellent attendance and punctuality, ensuring that every student has the opportunity to achieve their full potential.

The successful candidate will work closely with students, families, pastoral leaders and external agencies to identify and remove barriers to attendance. They will monitor attendance data, support intervention strategies, conduct home visits where required and build positive relationships with parents and carers to improve outcomes for young people. The role demands a proactive and compassionate individual who is committed to making a difference in the lives of students and ensuring high levels of attendance across the academy.

Potential applicants should have: A Full Clean Driving Licence.

• Experience of working with young people and supporting them to overcome barriers to success, ideally within a secondary school environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with students, parents/carers, colleagues and external agencies.
• A strong understanding of attendance processes, safeguarding responsibilities and the factors that can impact student attendance and wellbeing.
• The ability to analyse attendance data effectively and use this information to inform targeted intervention strategies.
• A passion for improving outcomes for young people, together with the drive, resilience and determination to make a positive difference to students’ lives.

Joining The Ruth Gorse Academy means becoming part of a dedicated and supportive team that is committed to excellence, inclusion and ensuring every student has the opportunity to succeed. If you are passionate about making a lasting difference and want to be part of an academy on a strong and exciting journey of improvement, we would love to hear from you.

What the school offers its staff

What we offer you:

• Membership of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role.
• A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• £2k Cycle to work scheme.

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.