Attendance Officer - The Misbourne School

Overview

Term time only

Salary Type: Bucks pay

Salary details: Bucks Pay Range 3-4 (Actual salary £20,620 - £24,297 per annum)

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (Permanent)

CORE HOURS:
Monday 8.00am to 4.00pm
Tuesday 8.00am to 4.00pm
Wednesday 8.00am to 4.00pm
Thursday 8.00am to 4.00pm
Friday 8.00am to 3.30pm
(including 30 minutes unpaid lunch daily)

Closing date: 24/04/2024 09:00

Interviews to be held: 2nd May 2024

About us

We believe that through clarity of vision, collaboration and dedication, we can achieve great things for our young people and for the staff who join us on our journey.

Our vision is simple, yet unashamedly ambitious: ‘To develop world-class students who have the belief in themselves that anything is possible and lead happy and successful lives.’

A key part of our plan for education is to ensure children become valuable and fully-rounded members of society who treat others with respect and tolerance, regardless of background.

https://www.themisbourne.co.uk/

About the role

Coordinating the Academy’s response to the implementation of its Attendance Policy.
Ensure that the attendance procedures are carried out in line with County regulations and current legislation.
To work with the Pastoral and Intervention Teams in promoting and sustaining high levels of student attendance and punctuality.
To establish and maintain good relationships with all students, families, colleagues and other professionals.
To maintain accurate student attendance and punctuality records using SIMS on a daily basis and to provide regular attendance and punctuality reports to Middle and Senior Leaders.
Provide daily student registers for appropriate activities e.g. fire registers and school assemblies.
Follow up student absences and lateness by telephone or other appropriate means, on a daily basis with guidance from relevant colleagues, making appropriate referrals to external agencies.
To monitor attendance and punctuality and ensure there are follow on sanctions by registering late students, carry out late detentions and liaising with Performance Directors (Heads of Year).
To set break detentions for all lates and supervise these detentions.
To lead on attendance intervention groups with key students working with the School Base Teams.
To monitor lesson attendance, acting upon any missing marks/students and notifying Pastoral Team of concerns.
To carry out regular (lesson by lesson) register checks to ensure lesson registers are taken promptly and take appropriate action when they are not.
To generate correspondence home for all lates to school and other unauthorised absences, highlighting areas of concern through stringent record keeping.
Identifying individuals, key groups of students and families that require additional support and working with those key groups to help improve attendance and punctuality.
Initiate and follow through appropriate sanctions in liaison with relevant colleagues and other professionals including preparation for court action where necessary.
In liaison with relevant colleagues/school leadership, attend follow up meetings and other relevant meetings with families and/or other professionals to provide relevant information.
To undertake home visits for students/families where necessary with Student Services /Intervention / Safeguarding colleagues as appropriate.
To set up and chair Family Attendance Contract meetings for students who have attendance concerns and who are below the school attendance threshold.
To take part in Attendance Panel meetings as required.
To generate and disseminate all relevant attendance paperwork and update our records as necessary.
To support in the making of referrals to Family Support Services and other external agencies to remove barriers for learning and provide support.
To set up Team Around the Family and other professionals meetings to look at the support plan for families.
Participate in the school’s performance development system.

About you

Professional Development:

Take responsibility for your professional development
Grow your own network of other Attendance Officers to share and develop best practice
Take part as appropriate in the Academy’s professional development programme
Participate in the Academy’s performance appraisal system
Evaluate your personal performance through self-evaluation and learn from the effective practice of others and from evidence
Professional Values and Practice

Support the Academies vision and ethos in providing the best opportunities for all young people
Be a role model through personal and professional conduct, including demonstrating the academy values when interacting with others and ensuring professional dress and appearance, punctuality and attendance
Work as a member of designated teams and contribute positively to effective working relations within the academy
Be proficient in the application of literacy, numeracy and ICT
Safeguard the health and safety of all students both in the academy premises and when engaging in authorised school activities
Contribute effectively to the running of the Academy
To provide courteous, prompt and polite service to all members of the school’s community including families, students, all staff and visitors
To contribute actively to the Academy’s mission statement by forming positive relationships within the school community and working collaboratively and in good humour with other colleagues as appropriate or when directed
To be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within the Academy, particularly those relating to child protection, equality, health and safety, bullying, behaviour and confidentiality. It is the duty of all colleagues to report breaches of Academy policies or procedures to the Headteacher
To promote the school’s policy on behaviour for learning, and a commitment to providing a caring and
stimulating environment for improving standards for all students within the school.
Any other reasonable duties as requested by the Headteacher or member of SLT.

Other information

Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below. Please send completed application forms to the email address below.
Tel No: 01494 862869
Email: HR@themisbourne.co.uk

The Misbourne is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. An offer of appointment is subject to satisfactory references, DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Enhanced Disclosure and medical clearance.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.

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