Attendance Officer
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 June 2025 |
| Location: | Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY2 5SH |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7fd204a8-e38a-4e9c-9c0e-7105641b7ad5 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are currently seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, dedicated and efficient Attendance Officer to join Severndale Specialist Academy. The purpose of this post is to ensure the accuracy of registers in line with the Attendance policy and safeguarding procedures. The successful candidate will have an absolute commitment to working closely with the Lead DSL and wider DSL team to promote, review and monitor all aspects of student attendance. The successful candidate will also have a high regard for confidentiality, an ability to show initiative, and be able to demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail in their work. If you are an efficient administrator who can communicate effectively with students, families and staff in a supportive and calm way, we want to hear from you!
Skills required:
•Good interpersonal skills and the ability to speak positively and confidently to parents and carers on the telephone.
•Ability to follow set procedures to meet legal requirements of some attendance processes.
•Able to respond well to periods of pressure.
•A friendly and welcoming nature.
•Willingness to be trained and acquire new skills.
•Comprehensive and contemporaneous record keeping is essential, and you will therefore require good IT skills.
What the school offers its staff
• Permanent contract
• Salary range scale: Scale 5, Point 13 with a progression scale to Point 17
• Hourly Rate £14.60 - £15.58 (April 2025 pay award pending)
• The hours of work are: 37 hours per week Monday to Thursday 08:30-16:30 and Friday 08:30-16:00.
• Term-time plus one week (PD Days).
• Access to the School Advisory Service
• Bike to Work scheme
• Continuing Professional Development
• Local Authority Pension Scheme
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
We are currently seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, dedicated and efficient Attendance Officer to join Severndale Specialist Academy. The purpose of this post is to ensure the accuracy of registers in line with the Attendance policy and safeguarding procedures. The successful candidate will have an absolute commitment to working closely with the Lead DSL and wider DSL team to promote, review and monitor all aspects of student attendance. The successful candidate will also have a high regard for confidentiality, an ability to show initiative, and be able to demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail in their work. If you are an efficient administrator who can communicate effectively with students, families and staff in a supportive and calm way, we want to hear from you!
Skills required:
•Good interpersonal skills and the ability to speak positively and confidently to parents and carers on the telephone.
•Ability to follow set procedures to meet legal requirements of some attendance processes.
•Able to respond well to periods of pressure.
•A friendly and welcoming nature.
•Willingness to be trained and acquire new skills.
•Comprehensive and contemporaneous record keeping is essential, and you will therefore require good IT skills.
What the school offers its staff
• Permanent contract
• Salary range scale: Scale 5, Point 13 with a progression scale to Point 17
• Hourly Rate £14.60 - £15.58 (April 2025 pay award pending)
• The hours of work are: 37 hours per week Monday to Thursday 08:30-16:30 and Friday 08:30-16:00.
• Term-time plus one week (PD Days).
• Access to the School Advisory Service
• Bike to Work scheme
• Continuing Professional Development
• Local Authority Pension Scheme
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.