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Attendance and Welfare Officer, Coventry
Location: Coventry, United Kingdom
Job Category: Customer Service
EU work permit required: Yes
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Posted:
06.03.2025
Expiry Date:
20.04.2025
Job Description:
We are seeking to appoint a suitably qualified, dedicated, and tenacious member of staff to support our ongoing drive to secure regular attendance for all students. The role is primarily focused on improving levels of student attendance across the Academy by building relationships with key students and their families through home visits. You will conduct safe-and-well checks and contribute to the administration of attendance, including compiling evidence for statutory action. Research shows that student attendance is one of the greatest mitigating factors for young people when striving to reach and exceed their academic potential. The impact of non-attendance for students from disadvantaged backgrounds is far greater than their advantaged counterparts. In this role, you will work closely with senior leaders, pastoral colleagues, external agencies, the local authority, students, and their families as you strive to address any challenges that may exist for students in securing regular attendance. You will ensure that the statutory obligations around student attendance, the reporting of student attendance, and the integrity of attendance registers are maintained – supporting and challenging where required.
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Be responsible for the daily oversight of all attendance, absences, and lateness, working with the Pastoral team, the office, and parents as necessary.
2. Monitor and track attendance across the academy, including identifying students of concern and reporting on these students as necessary to the pastoral team, as well as sending out attendance letters and preparing Notice to Improve documentation.
3. Conduct home visits to support and improve attendance and undertake parent contract meetings where students have attendance concerns, including Persistent and Severe absences.
4. Attend review meetings with the Pastoral team to review whole-academy attendance and identify strategies to improve this, providing attendance data via Management Information System to support the meetings.
5. Support parents with attendance and punctuality strategies.
6. Support students with medical needs and other issues which prevent full-time attendance by liaising with staff, parents/carers, and other professionals.
7. Raise the attendance of targeted students through effectively monitoring and communication with staff, parents/carers, and other professionals, including working on strategies to improve student punctuality and identifying patterns of non-attendance and late arrival quickly and putting in place timely interventions.
8. Ensure measures are in place to provide students with missed schoolwork.
9. Attend relevant meetings regarding the wellbeing of specific students.
The successful candidate will have:
1. The motivation to achieve the very best for the students in our care and be relentless in the pursuit of excellence.
2. Excellent interpersonal skills.
3. Experience with supporting students and families.
4. Excellent communication skills.
5. Excellent organizational skills.
6. High levels of confidentiality.
7. Effective problem-solving skills with the ability to devise positive and robust solutions.
8. High proficiency in ICT skills with excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
As this role includes home visits, a full driving licence and access to a vehicle is also required (the Academy has business insurance).
We are committed to safeguarding children. Each applicant will be expected to undertake compliance checks including Prohibited list, Barred list, DBS, and Qualifications.
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