Description

Do you have experience overseeing attendance at a school level? We are looking for an Attendance Officer to join our dedicated academy team at Harris Academy Sutton . This role is likely to suit an individual looking to develop in a school environment with attendance related experience.

About Us

We are now well settled in to our £40 million state-of-the-art Passivhaus building and are looking for committed and passionate Attendance Officer to join our growing community and support our students as they look to progress into an ever-more competitive workplace.

Main Areas of Responsibility

Your role will include:

• Assisting ALG in the Management and Development of attendance and punctuality policies;
• Daily monitoring and follow-up of attendance and punctuality;
• To participate on late desk and follow up detentions to be issued for those students late to the Academy;
• To text parents/carers of students absent at agreed time and record reasons for absence if given;
• Daily monitoring and early calls on the attendance of children in care or students on the vulnerable list as a priority, reporting to the Academy Welfare manager daily;
• Making home visits with the Academy welfare manager as required;
• Sending letters to parents regarding attendance matters as requested by the Academy Welfare Manager
• Ensuring the smooth operation of the computerised registration system;
• Ensuring daily attendance information is entered accurately onto the system;
• Establishing the reason for absences including telephone calls, letters and home visits, in liaison with the tutors and other staff;
• Preparing and distributing attendance and punctuality certificates as part of the Academy's reward policy;
• Following up on poor attendance or punctuality. Organising attendance panel meetings with parent’s/carers tutors and external agencies, making home visits, ensuring student contracts are agreed and monitored;
• Signing students in and out of the Academy outside normal start and finish times, ensuring communication with home where required;
• Liaising with the Educational Welfare Officer to ensure that prompt, consistent and rigorous intervention with poor attendance is robust;
• To monitor student attendance together with students’ progress and performance in relation to targets set for each individual ensuring that follow-up procedures are adhered to and that appropriate action is taken where necessary;
• To deal efficiently and effectively with referrals on attendance concerns from faculties;
• To alert the appropriate staff to problems experienced by students and to make recommendations as to how these may be resolved;
• To communicate as appropriate, with the parents of students and with persons or bodies outside the Academy concerned with the welfare of individual students, after consultation with the appropriate staff;
• To attend all appropriate meetings and organise fortnightly meetings with Faculty Directors to review faculty attendance figures and action taken;
• As LAC mentor to meet with LAC students weekly and pass on any relevant information regarding their welfare.
• To maintain a tidy, organised and professional working environment at all times.
• To ensure the academy health and safety policies and practices, including risk assessments, throughout the department are in line with national requirements and are updated where necessary.
• Referring cases where appropriate to the named person with responsibility for child protection.
• To be responsible for own professional development, identifying training needs and requesting courses as appropriate.
• To offer medical attention to students, maintaining the medical and accident book. To contact the emergency services as required.
• To engage actively in the performance review process, addressing appraisal targets set by the line manager each autumn term.
• To promote equal opportunities and celebrate diversity in all aspects of the academy.
• To play a full part in the life of the Academy community, to support its distinctive aim and ethos and to encourage staff and students to follow this example.
• To promote actively the Academy’s corporate policies.
• To comply with the Academy’s Health and Safety policy and undertake risk assessments as appropriate.

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Name:HARRIS ACADEMY SUTTON

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