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Attendance Officer
Reference: JAN20173162
Expiry date: 2017-02-06 09:00:00.000
Location: Nottinghamshire
Salary: Competitive
Benefits: Pension, Healthcare & CPD
Attachments: JobPackAttendanceOfficerJan17.pdf

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