Attendance Engagement Officer x 2

2 months ago

Devon, United Kingdom Devon County Council Full time

Location: 
TWT Schools in the Plymouth Area - 1 Vacancy 

TWT Schools in the Devon Area - 1 Vacancy 

The Ted Wragg Trust is an inclusive and ambitious Trust of schools, strengthening our communities through excellent education. Our mission is to transform lives and strengthen our communities to make the world a better place. With a reputation for highly successful school improvement in very challenging circumstances, we are passionate about inclusive education and raising the aspirations and outcomes of all our students. We are a growing Trust with over 13,000 pupils across 16 schools working across Devon and Plymouth Local Authorities. We recognise that improving school attendance has never been so important as it is now. 

The Trust are seeking to appoint two highly skilled and enthusiastic Attendance Engagement Officers (AEO), one in the Devon area and one in Plymouth to join our already established in-house Trust Attendance Engagement Service (AES). Their role is to promote positive attitudes towards regular attendance across our Trust schools. Our team consists of 6 people, 3 working across our Devon schools and 2 in our Plymouth schools, along with a team administrator. The successful candidate will work in partnership with our schools, families and the LA to improve the attendance levels of our pupils, engage with families to remove barriers and to support our schools to fulfil their legal obligations in this regard. 

The successful candidate will monitor the attendance of children and provide intervention, support and signposting to families where attendance falls below 92%. The Attendance Engagement Officer will also support families in a wide variety of other ways, including supporting parents and their children to achieve a positive relationship with the school, involving parents in the life of the school and supporting families by working with different agencies through the Early Help process. This is a unique opportunity, for you to develop your skills and experience in order to positively enhance the life chances of pupils, by supporting them to remove barriers to achieving consistently good school attendance.

We are seeking:

An experienced and highly skilled professional with a proven track record of supporting pupils and their families to achieve a positive outcome A driven and highly effective team player who will work well as part of a team An individual who can cultivate effective working relationships with families, sometimes delivering tough messages with regards to the legal process, with care and sensitivity Someone passionate about making a difference to children's lives, with high levels of integrity, selfless commitment and ambition to collaboration


We can offer you:

The opportunity to work with dedicated and committed staff teams across our growing Trust of schools First class professional development and on-going career development The chance to make a difference to the lives of children and their families


If you are able to meet the requirements of this role, we would love to hear from you. For an informal conversation to find out more about the role, please contact Aimee Mitchell – Trust Lead for Safeguarding and Attendance and the Attendance Engagement Service Lead on

The Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and operate in accordance with the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. All applicants will be subject to a full Disclosure and Barring Service check before an appointment is confirmed. This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English.

We are part of the Ted Wragg Trust, an ambitious and inclusive trust of schools strengthening our communities through excellent education.

Further details and our Trust online applications can be made here:

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