Attendance and Educational Improvement Officer
| Posting date: | 10 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 January 2026 |
| Location: | Truro, Cornwall, TR3 6LT |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 0ca63802-525b-4008-ab16-ddedfe605d1c |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
An opportunity has arisen for the appointment of an Attendance and Educational Improvement Officer at Richard Lander School. The main purpose of this role is to contribute to raising achievement by improving school attendance. To provide a specialist service to assist the school in meeting their obligations and targets in relation to school attendance, especially persistent absence. To promote positive attitudes by students and families towards education and to ensure that parents/carers are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities. This will involve preparatory work for any prosecution of persistent absence. To make unsupervised contact with families in their own homes and elsewhere to assess the reasons impacting on the attendance of individual students, facilitating their return to access to regular full time education provision. To establish and develop a professional service to support the school in raising attendance, investigating persistent absences and improving punctuality.
Our school is welcoming and supportive, with a strong value placed on ‘being the best you can be’ and staff and students on a mission to achieve great outcomes for all our students.
We hope after reading our details and person specification that you will want to join our team.
This position is full time and permanent and is available as soon as possible.
What the school offers its staff
We drive to ensure that everyone can ‘Be the best that they can be’ and this includes both staff and students. Our standards are high and our aim is for all children to achieve their full potential, both academically and socially.
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding, promoting the welfare of children and to ensuring a culture of valuing diversity and ensuring equality of opportunities. Successful applicants must be suitable to work with children and will need to undertake the following before commencing employment: Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Certificate with barred list information Receipt of two satisfactory employer references one of which must be from your current or most recent employer Satisfactory verification of relevant qualifications Satisfactory health check All new employees will be required to undertake mandatory training required by the school.
An opportunity has arisen for the appointment of an Attendance and Educational Improvement Officer at Richard Lander School. The main purpose of this role is to contribute to raising achievement by improving school attendance. To provide a specialist service to assist the school in meeting their obligations and targets in relation to school attendance, especially persistent absence. To promote positive attitudes by students and families towards education and to ensure that parents/carers are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities. This will involve preparatory work for any prosecution of persistent absence. To make unsupervised contact with families in their own homes and elsewhere to assess the reasons impacting on the attendance of individual students, facilitating their return to access to regular full time education provision. To establish and develop a professional service to support the school in raising attendance, investigating persistent absences and improving punctuality.
Our school is welcoming and supportive, with a strong value placed on ‘being the best you can be’ and staff and students on a mission to achieve great outcomes for all our students.
We hope after reading our details and person specification that you will want to join our team.
This position is full time and permanent and is available as soon as possible.
What the school offers its staff
We drive to ensure that everyone can ‘Be the best that they can be’ and this includes both staff and students. Our standards are high and our aim is for all children to achieve their full potential, both academically and socially.
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding, promoting the welfare of children and to ensuring a culture of valuing diversity and ensuring equality of opportunities. Successful applicants must be suitable to work with children and will need to undertake the following before commencing employment: Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Certificate with barred list information Receipt of two satisfactory employer references one of which must be from your current or most recent employer Satisfactory verification of relevant qualifications Satisfactory health check All new employees will be required to undertake mandatory training required by the school.