Attendance Officer

Title: Attendance Officer

Location: Northeast

Pay: £13.50 - £15 per hour including holiday pay

Duration: Full-Time, Start Sep until Dec (at least, potential to be extended)

Reed - Further Education are seeking an Attendance Officer to work with post 16 students tracking their attendance and doing home visits.

What’s the day-to-day responsibilities of an attendance officer?

• To manage daily attendance processes effectively, ensuring that students are promptly registered and first day absence notifications and calls are made in a timely manner to ensure the safeguarding and welfare of students.
• To work with the Leadership team and pastoral teams to manage effective short-, medium and long-term attendance strategies in-line with both local and national attendance processes.
• To work closely with the Attendance and Wellbeing Officer, and Wellbeing team to produce reports, data and analyse intervention to support with their work
•  To ensure the effective administration of attendance systems and procedures in-line with local and national expectations
• To produce reports on attendance, lateness and ongoing trends and the impact of attendance strategies.
• To ensure all daily routine attendance processes are completed in a timely manner, including inputting data, distribution of registers, fire registers as required, and first day absence notifications.
• To follow up reporting both internally and/or externally as appropriate and notifying Designated Officers of absences related to vulnerable students.
• To do home visits to the students where necessary.

What are the required skills and qualifications needed for this role?

• Knowledge and/or experience of mentoring
• Full working knowledge of relevant policies, including child protection / codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation.
• Experience of working with students with additional needs.
• Experience interacting with 16–19-year-olds in education or apprentice setting.
• Level 2 or equivalent in English and Maths
• Car Driver (desirable), if not then good access to public transport.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills
• Current Enhanced DBS on the update service or willingness to apply for one through Reed Compliance

If you are ready for a career change, and an attendance officer is the next role for you, click ‘Apply Now’, and register to Reed - Further Education. Alternatively, contact your local Reed - Further Education branch today, where we would love to hear from you and help you shape your next career step.

Reed - Further Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check.

We look forward to your application – Ashleigh King, Leeds