Home Academy Liaison Officer

Shorefields; Wickford; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris Academy Wickford is seeking a passionate Home Academy Liaison Officer to champion student attendance, welfare, and inclusion. You will work with families and colleagues to help our most vulnerable students overcome challenges and engage fully in school life.

The role involves managing a caseload of at-risk students with attendance below 85%, implementing strategies to improve attendance, liaising with external agencies, and ensuring safeguarding duties are fulfilled.

Qualifications

• Experience in educational welfare or attendance monitoring.
• Ability to engage with families and external agencies.
• Commitment to safeguarding and child welfare.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing Educational Welfare across the academy.
• Managing a caseload of at-risk students, where attendance falls below 85% and implementing strategies to improve attendance.
• Monitoring and improving the attendance of vulnerable students, including Looked after pupils and those identified as in need by staff or external agencies.
• Organising meetings for vulnerable students to address attendance with external agencies and relevant staff.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory duties, including reporting persistent and severe absenteeism.
• Conducting home visits to engage families and address barriers to school attendance.

Job description

Position Start Date: Immediate Contract Type: Full-time Contract Term: Permanent

Application Close: 16/11/2026 Midnight Date of Interviews: ASAP

We are seeking a passionate and dedicated Home Academy Liaison Officer to champion student attendance, welfare and inclusion. Working closely with families and colleagues, you will help our most vulnerable students overcome challenges, engage fully in school life and achieve their potential. The actual salary for this role will be £25,485 - £27,196 (37.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year)

Your responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing Educational Welfare across the academy.
• Managing a caseload of 'at risk' students, where attendance falls below 85% and implement strategies to improve attendance. HALO to ensure that prompt, consistent and rigorous intervention with poor attendance is robust.
• Monitoring and improving the attendance of most vulnerable students at the academy, including Looked after students, those on the child protection register, children identified as being in need either by Academy staff or external agencies.
• Managing the process of addressing poor attendance across the academy. Organising meetings as appropriate for vulnerable students ensuring all external agencies and relevant staff are invited.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory duties, including reporting persistent and severe absenteeism.
• Conducting home visits to engage families and address barriers to school attendance.

Information about the School

Harris Academy Wickford is on an exciting journey to help our fantastic young people harness their potential, achieve extraordinary results and change the world. The Academy joined the Harris Federation in September 2026. The Harris Federation is the most successful large multi-academy trust in the UK and the only large trust where disadvantaged students outperform non disadvantaged students nationally. We are a group of highly ambitious, committed staff who believe in the transformative power of education. Our collective vision is to help our scholars achieve their extraordinary and change the world. Our mission is to become the best school in Essex by 2030. Our values of Hard Work, Ambition, Wisdom and Kindness underpin everything we do.

We encourage visits from prospective candidates to meet members of our school community and to experience our school at first hand. If you would like to do this, please contact Kathy Rich, PA to the Headteacher on 01268 627848 or via email to [e-mail]

We may hold interviews as and when applications are received, and we reserve the right to offer to a candidate prior to the closing date. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.