Attendance Officer

Attendance Officer

Salary: Starting from £24,477.60 with progression to £25,944.87 (pro rata of £28,210.00 to £29,901.00 per annum including London Weighting)

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time (36 hours) Term-time only

Closing date: 16.00 Wednesday 15 April 2024

We have an exciting opportunity for a full time, term time only enthusiastic Attendance Officer to join the College’s Tutorial Team. You will work in conjunction with Progress Tutors to identify student attendance issues and patterns of absence/late arrivals. Contact with parent/carers over all aspects of attendance including written correspondence when required. Produce attendance reports for Tutorial Manager on a weekly basis and other individual reports when requested.

You will have the ability to identify and work with individuals and groups of students where attendance is below college expectation. You will collate and share information with the Tutorial Manager and or Senior Tutors regarding students experiencing difficulties with attending college and help to develop strategies to promote punctuality of all students

You must demonstrate knowledge of pastoral issues affecting young people, knowledge of safeguarding and health and safety. Experience of working with young people is essential.

The College combines great facilities with quality teaching and high standards, including a multi-million pound building, providing state of the art technology enabled learning resource centre, drama studio and café.

We will offer you a warm welcome - a place where all ambitions are celebrated. As one of the largest sixth form colleges in London, we are a non-selective, diverse and secular college, proud to have launched over 50,000 young people onto university, training and employment since we were founded in 1992.

The College is currently graded as ‘Good’ by Ofsted, and ‘Outstanding’ for our provision of personal development, behaviour and welfare. We are very proud to be a three-time silver award winner at the Pearson National Teaching Awards, where in 2020, we made history by becoming the first ever provider to win two awards in a single year.

We believe that everybody has the power to make a positive impact on society - small changes that add up to make the world a better place.

Our motto is: Diverse in Ambition, United in Success

What’s in it for you?

We offer the opportunity to help develop your skills and knowledge in a friendly team environment, plus a range of benefits including a career average pension scheme (LGPS), employee assistance programme, onsite parking, cycle to work, onsite canteen, TECH Scheme, Eye Care support and full access to the onsite gym.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to creating and promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce that better reflects the wider community we support. We particularly welcome applicants from groups currently under-represented in senior roles, including females, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), people with disabilities and from the LGBTQ community.

Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of our students and expect everybody working for the College to share this commitment. We actively seek DBS clearance checks for applications of employment as part of our safeguarding procedures.

This role will be starting as soon as possible depending on the notice period for successful candidates.

Interview date: TBC

Please note that we do not accept CVs