Attendance Improvement Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 18 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 29 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Countesthorpe, LE8 5PR |
| Cwmni: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | b5d6c0e7-0b6f-4a80-bdf3-b6946864e6ad |
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What skills and experience we're looking for
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
5 GCSEs (A-C) including mathematics and English
Two years’ experience of working in an education setting or health and social care
Experience of working effectively with young people
Experience of working effectively with parents / carers
Full, clean driving licence
Desirable
IT qualification e.g. ECDL/ RSA / CLAIT
Experience of working collaboratively with other agencies
Experience of working with young people with complex emotional and behavioural needs
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
Good standard of literacy and numeracy
Excellent knowledge of safeguarding and child protection procedures
Good knowledge of effective ways of managing student attendance.
Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
Able to work effectively with young people with challenging behaviour.
Able to devise and monitor effective programmes for attendance improvement.
High level skills in counselling and mentoring.
Able to work well with external agencies involved in improving attendance.
Highly effective team member.
Able to anticipate and defuse conflict.
Excellent ICT skills and ability to interpret data.
Ability to produce clear reports and keep concise accurate records.
Excellent organisational and presentation skills.
Anticipate problems, develop creative solutions.
Listen to and reflect on feedback from others.
Excellent personal presentation
Able to build and maintain positive relationships with individuals.
Prioritise, plan and organise self.
Use of ARBOR or equivalent school management information system
An interest in educational issues
A commitment to inclusion
Positive attitude
Genuine concern for the welfare of others
Initiative and self-motivator
Calm disposition
Willing to accept the demands and challenges of the post and respond in a flexible manner.
Desirable
Knowledge of the impact of special educational needs on behaviour
Knowledge of ARBOR database
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Essential
An enthusiasm for working with young people.
Flexible with a ‘can-do’ approach
Integrity, empathy and patience
Able to manage sensitive and confidential situations.
Able to work under sustained pressure while remaining cheerful and resilient.
Able to react appropriately to problems and unexpected situations, making rapid decisions and taking the initiative.
Able to operate effectively as a member of a team with minimum supervision.
Self-motivated
Loyal and dependable
Committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and Countesthorpe Academy.
What the school offers its staff
Putting Your Trust in Our Trust
We believe in your development. Everything we do is about creating a team of committed professionals who share our ambition for young people. If you believe in this too, we are committed to providing an exciting, enjoyable and rewarding working environment.
Coaching
Coaching is integral to our success. We support colleagues through coaching; enabling deep reflection, which has allowed us to build a bold, creative and aspirational culture, where collaboration with peers and new approaches to practice are encouraged.
Personal
Improvement Plan versus Performance
Management
Instead of the usual performance management, we encourage our staff to identify aspirational targets through our ‘Personal Improvement Plan’ (PIP) process. With your coach, you will look to make significant progress in a critical area of your practice; we believe in valuing the process of improvement not pass or fail numerical targets.
Health and Wellbeing Strategies
Having happy and healthy staff is key to a successful organisation. The Trust is committed to:
providing employees with a safe, healthy and supportive environment in which to work recognising that the health and wellbeing of our employees is important providing a supportive workplace culture where individuals healthy lifestyle choices are valued and encouraged.
We are committed to supporting colleagues to overcome the stigma and discrimination of mental health issues within the work place. To show our commitment to this we have publicly signed up to ‘Mindful Employer’ and the ‘Charter for Employers who are Positive about Mental Health’.
We believe it is important that we are role models to our students of how to be a healthy adult. We actively promote the importance of a work life balance, offering support to staff on managing stress and workload, as well as a physical activity programme. Access to coaching, counselling and supervision is also available to all staff.
Equality and Equal Opportunities
Our Trust and its schools are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity in line with the Equality Act 2010. The Trust seeks to reduce disadvantages, discrimination and inequalities of opportunity, and promote diversity in terms of its students, workforce and our wider communities we serve.
Presumed
Professionalism
We have a ‘Presumed Professionalism’ ethos across the Trust. Our staff are professional educators and we recognise the need to support staff to enable a healthy work life balance to allow maximum impact whilst working with our young people and each other. We achieve this by allowing staff to sign out during their free periods, as long as professional duties are not affected. See our policy for further details.
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.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
5 GCSEs (A-C) including mathematics and English
Two years’ experience of working in an education setting or health and social care
Experience of working effectively with young people
Experience of working effectively with parents / carers
Full, clean driving licence
Desirable
IT qualification e.g. ECDL/ RSA / CLAIT
Experience of working collaboratively with other agencies
Experience of working with young people with complex emotional and behavioural needs
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
Good standard of literacy and numeracy
Excellent knowledge of safeguarding and child protection procedures
Good knowledge of effective ways of managing student attendance.
Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
Able to work effectively with young people with challenging behaviour.
Able to devise and monitor effective programmes for attendance improvement.
High level skills in counselling and mentoring.
Able to work well with external agencies involved in improving attendance.
Highly effective team member.
Able to anticipate and defuse conflict.
Excellent ICT skills and ability to interpret data.
Ability to produce clear reports and keep concise accurate records.
Excellent organisational and presentation skills.
Anticipate problems, develop creative solutions.
Listen to and reflect on feedback from others.
Excellent personal presentation
Able to build and maintain positive relationships with individuals.
Prioritise, plan and organise self.
Use of ARBOR or equivalent school management information system
An interest in educational issues
A commitment to inclusion
Positive attitude
Genuine concern for the welfare of others
Initiative and self-motivator
Calm disposition
Willing to accept the demands and challenges of the post and respond in a flexible manner.
Desirable
Knowledge of the impact of special educational needs on behaviour
Knowledge of ARBOR database
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Essential
An enthusiasm for working with young people.
Flexible with a ‘can-do’ approach
Integrity, empathy and patience
Able to manage sensitive and confidential situations.
Able to work under sustained pressure while remaining cheerful and resilient.
Able to react appropriately to problems and unexpected situations, making rapid decisions and taking the initiative.
Able to operate effectively as a member of a team with minimum supervision.
Self-motivated
Loyal and dependable
Committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and Countesthorpe Academy.
What the school offers its staff
Putting Your Trust in Our Trust
We believe in your development. Everything we do is about creating a team of committed professionals who share our ambition for young people. If you believe in this too, we are committed to providing an exciting, enjoyable and rewarding working environment.
Coaching
Coaching is integral to our success. We support colleagues through coaching; enabling deep reflection, which has allowed us to build a bold, creative and aspirational culture, where collaboration with peers and new approaches to practice are encouraged.
Personal
Improvement Plan versus Performance
Management
Instead of the usual performance management, we encourage our staff to identify aspirational targets through our ‘Personal Improvement Plan’ (PIP) process. With your coach, you will look to make significant progress in a critical area of your practice; we believe in valuing the process of improvement not pass or fail numerical targets.
Health and Wellbeing Strategies
Having happy and healthy staff is key to a successful organisation. The Trust is committed to:
providing employees with a safe, healthy and supportive environment in which to work recognising that the health and wellbeing of our employees is important providing a supportive workplace culture where individuals healthy lifestyle choices are valued and encouraged.
We are committed to supporting colleagues to overcome the stigma and discrimination of mental health issues within the work place. To show our commitment to this we have publicly signed up to ‘Mindful Employer’ and the ‘Charter for Employers who are Positive about Mental Health’.
We believe it is important that we are role models to our students of how to be a healthy adult. We actively promote the importance of a work life balance, offering support to staff on managing stress and workload, as well as a physical activity programme. Access to coaching, counselling and supervision is also available to all staff.
Equality and Equal Opportunities
Our Trust and its schools are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity in line with the Equality Act 2010. The Trust seeks to reduce disadvantages, discrimination and inequalities of opportunity, and promote diversity in terms of its students, workforce and our wider communities we serve.
Presumed
Professionalism
We have a ‘Presumed Professionalism’ ethos across the Trust. Our staff are professional educators and we recognise the need to support staff to enable a healthy work life balance to allow maximum impact whilst working with our young people and each other. We achieve this by allowing staff to sign out during their free periods, as long as professional duties are not affected. See our policy for further details.
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.