General Responsibilities
- To promote the corporate image of the school and high standards of behaviour and courtesy among pupils.
- To communicate effectively with the public and wider community and provide effective support for teaching staff and pupils.
- To promote and support the implementation of the school’s aims, policies and values.
- To work flexibly as part of the support staff team to contribute to the smooth operation of the school.
- To use the schools computer hardware and software packages where appropriate.
- To commit to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.
Specific Responsibilities
Attendance
· Oversee and monitor the attendance and punctuality of all students for assigned year groups
· Meet with key staff to discuss concerns regarding students whose attendance falls below 90% in order to identify the students who need to be targeted for intervention
· Work closely with the Head of Year and Pastoral SLT in addressing the needs of persistently absent students to ensure they return to School on a consistent basis
· To produce regular reports on attendance, with data to show improvements made by targeted cohort of students
· Carry out interviews with students and/or their parents to identify issues and concerns and put in place an appropriate plan to support students to improve their attendance
· Be mindful of the safeguarding issues around attendance and punctuality and where appropriate ensure that students are referred to the School Safeguarding team
· Ensuring effective communication between all staff regarding identified pupils and between school and home.
· To develop effective 1:1 relationships with pupils to enable positive rapport and monitoring of progress towards agreed goals
· Processing of absence messages and input of registers as necessary
· Production and distribution of attendance letters
Administration
· Administration tasks, including some to support the school nursing team, i.e. collecting in vaccination permission forms as well as working with other external agencies.
· Communication with parents via telephone and the production and distribution of letters
· Free School Dinners book administration and distribution
· Operation of system for loaning dinner money and the admin associated with this.
· The sale of school ties.
· Assist with the uniform shop
· Dealing with pupil lost property
· Support with management of the school buses to and from school
· Support and assist with supervision of pupils at lunch times
First Aid
· First aid and various duties associated with this, i.e. keeping medications up to date, first aid kits updated and purchase of stock
· To undertake any other duties as may reasonably be requested by the head of school
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