School Attendance Assistant
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 24 Tachwedd 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Manchester, M11 1LR |
| Cwmni: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 4e23c8ff-2c76-4336-9daa-1949e52e4298 |
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What skills and experience we're looking for
About the Role: We are looking to appoint a School Attendance Assistant to work within a friendly, committed and hard-working team in our school office. This is a varied role involving many aspects of school administration.The successful candidate will be efficient and conscientious, with excellent organisational skills.
The main duties of the job will include:
1. To contribute to support the provision of a responsive and comprehensive high quality support service to help improve overall school attendance in school.
2. To support the school to ensure the achievement of attendance objectives.
3. To undertake reception duties.
4. To undertake routine clerical and administrative support duties.
5. To maintain manual and computerised records and management information systems.
6. To be aware and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health and safety, security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person as soon as they arise.
About the candidate: The successful candidate will:
1. Knowledge and understanding of working with children, young people and families and dealing with barriers to education.
2. Excellent IT, written, oral and listening communication skills.
3. Have good interpersonal skills and a pleasant manner.
4. Have a good sense of humour, ability to work calmly in stressful situations and work effectively as part of a team.
5. Be willing to enter fully into life of the school.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
• A highly committed staff team
• Support to help you manage your well-being by providing you with work life balance benefits such as access to a mental health first aider and enjoying our many staff benefits
• A strong, supportive governing body
• Enthusiastic and well-behaved children
• Opportunities to further your career
We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, younger learners and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
This post is also subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 and other pre-employment checks where applicable.
We strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
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.
About the Role: We are looking to appoint a School Attendance Assistant to work within a friendly, committed and hard-working team in our school office. This is a varied role involving many aspects of school administration.The successful candidate will be efficient and conscientious, with excellent organisational skills.
The main duties of the job will include:
1. To contribute to support the provision of a responsive and comprehensive high quality support service to help improve overall school attendance in school.
2. To support the school to ensure the achievement of attendance objectives.
3. To undertake reception duties.
4. To undertake routine clerical and administrative support duties.
5. To maintain manual and computerised records and management information systems.
6. To be aware and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health and safety, security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person as soon as they arise.
About the candidate: The successful candidate will:
1. Knowledge and understanding of working with children, young people and families and dealing with barriers to education.
2. Excellent IT, written, oral and listening communication skills.
3. Have good interpersonal skills and a pleasant manner.
4. Have a good sense of humour, ability to work calmly in stressful situations and work effectively as part of a team.
5. Be willing to enter fully into life of the school.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
• A highly committed staff team
• Support to help you manage your well-being by providing you with work life balance benefits such as access to a mental health first aider and enjoying our many staff benefits
• A strong, supportive governing body
• Enthusiastic and well-behaved children
• Opportunities to further your career
We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, younger learners and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
This post is also subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 and other pre-employment checks where applicable.
We strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
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.