Attendance & Welfare Officer

The Ruth Gorse Academy; Leeds; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ruth Gorse Academy is seeking an Attendance Officer to join our pastoral team. You will promote excellent attendance and punctuality, support intervention strategies, and work with students, families and external agencies to remove barriers to success.

You will monitor attendance data, conduct home visits when required, and build positive relationships with parents and carers to improve outcomes and wellbeing across the academy.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with young people, ideally in a secondary school environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build positive relationships with students, parents/carers, colleagues and external agencies.
• Strong understanding of attendance processes, safeguarding responsibilities and factors affecting attendance and wellbeing.
• Ability to analyse attendance data effectively and use this information to inform targeted interventions.
• A passion for improving outcomes for young people, with resilience and determination to make a difference.
• Full Clean Driving Licence is required.

Responsibilities

• Work with students, families, pastoral leaders and external agencies to identify and remove barriers to attendance.
• Monitor attendance data and support intervention strategies.
• Conduct home visits where required and build positive relationships with parents and carers to improve outcomes for young people.
• Promote excellent attendance and punctuality across the academy.
• Collaborate with the pastoral team to support student wellbeing.

Skills

Experience with young people

Communication and interpersonal skills

Attendance processes knowledge

Data analysis of attendance

Passion for improving outcomes

Education

Full Clean Driving Licence

Job description

TheRuth Gorse Academy is seeking to appoint a dedicated, resilient and highlymotivated Attendance Officer to join our pastoral team. This is a key rolewithin the academy, focused on promoting excellent attendance and punctuality,ensuring that every student has the opportunity to achieve their fullpotential.

The successful candidate willwork closely with students, families, pastoral leaders and external agencies toidentify and remove barriers to attendance. They will monitor attendance data,support intervention strategies, conduct home visits where required and buildpositive relationships with parents and carers to improve outcomes for youngpeople. The role demands a proactive and compassionate individual who iscommitted to making a difference in the lives of students and ensuring highlevels of attendance across the academy.

Potential applicants shouldhave:

• Experience of working withyoung people and supporting them to overcome barriers to success, ideallywithin a secondary school environment.
• Excellent communication andinterpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships withstudents, parents/carers, colleagues and external agencies.
• A strong understanding ofattendance processes, safeguarding responsibilities and the factors that canimpact student attendance and wellbeing.
• The ability to analyseattendance data effectively and use this information to inform targetedintervention strategies.
• A passion for improvingoutcomes for young people, together with the drive, resilience anddetermination to make a positive difference to students’ lives.

Potential applicants should have: A Full Clean Driving Licence.

Joining The Ruth Gorse Academymeans becoming part of a dedicated and supportive team that is committed toexcellence, inclusion and ensuring every student has the opportunity tosucceed. If you are passionate about making a lasting difference and want to bepart of an academy on a strong and exciting journey of improvement, we wouldlove to hear from you.