Attendance Improvement Manager

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

• Take responsibility for and implement strategies and intervention for attendance and punctuality in order that academy targets are met in line with the Academy Improvement plan.
• Oversee the recording of all student attendance and punctuality matters.
• Be responsible for the implementation and organisation of monitoring and developing strategies to support attendance and punctuality of students.
• Undertake home visits, making assessments, devising actions plans and feeding back to the DSL, appropriate agencies and stakeholders where appropriate.
• Lead intervention for those students whose attendance falls below 98% which includes early parental involvement, creating and implementing action plans that outline clear improvement targets for each student.
• Produce and analyse data in relation to attendance and punctuality to create and inform intervention strategies
• Analyse data to identify patterns in absence and punctuality issues to create overall action plans for the academy.
• Provide accurate data to the Senior Leadership Team, Assistant Principal, Year Leaders and other stakeholders within the Trust so that effective strategic decisions can be made in order to challenge targets set.
• Take part in, and where appropriate, instigate the Early Help process for selected students in partnership with the senior member of staff responsible for safeguarding.
• Build good relationships with students and their families through regular contact and the provision of effective advice and support. This includes providing a mediation service between home and the academy where this is deemed to be appropriate.
• Assist in the preparation of Pastoral Support Programmes in the event of a student being identified as being at risk of exclusion and lead on Attendance Improvement Programmes with selected students and parents as appropriate.
• Take a pro-active approach in developing strategies to improve home and academy links to encourage parents to take a full part in their children’s education.
• Create and maintain appropriate working notes and records of home visits and other contacts/interventions with students and their families.
• Create and maintain records as a basis for written reports about actions taken to investigate and resolve a student’s pattern of absence.
• Be responsible for the response system for poor attendance and punctuality including the development, maintenance and improvement of first day contact procedures for absent students.
• Develop innovative and new ways of encouraging families to make attendance and punctuality at the academy a top priority;
• Be responsible for challenging condoned absence with parents which includes maximising potential opportunities when undertaking home visits to investigate and challenge non-attendance.
• Contribute to the effective primary/secondary transition by working with appropriate primary school staff to identify potential students who may have attendance issues when they enter Year 7 and intervene pro-actively with the families to avoid any future attendance issues.
• Manage the interface and referral systems for Education Welfare Service and formal non-attendance procedures.
• Prepare cases for prosecution, including preparation of relevant documentation, provision of evidence and attendance at court where necessary.
• Work with appropriate staff to develop individual action plans to improve attendance with individual students where their attendance gives cause for concern.
• Work to raise the profile of improved attendance throughout the academy through attendance assemblies, visiting classes in tutor time, deliver small parenting group workshops and support meetings.
• Responsible for the timely submission of relevant information to the pastoral teams, SLT, Governing Body and other outside agencies.
• Responsible for the line management of the Attendance Team which includes the full range of day to day line management activities and monitoring of workload.
• Carry out any other duties associated with the post, as requested by the Assistant Principal/Senior Leadership Team.
• Support the Alternative Provision teams with attendance and punctuality matters.