Schools Attendance Manager or Officer

2 weeks ago


Plymouth, United Kingdom Novus Recruiment Full time

Highly respected educational organisation based in Plymouth, Devon are looking to recruit a permanent Schools Attendance Manager/Officer.

They are positioned in the heart of the south-west peninsula, a stone’s throw from some of the most picturesque countryside and coastal locations in the UK.

This newly created role will work under the strategic direction of the Education Information Analyst/Data Protection Officer to support the work of the organisation's improvement team, with specific a responsibility and focus on attendance information. Thepostholder will also provide effective support for data protection activities, including assisting the Data Protection Officer as required.

The role is basically split into 2 categories. Attendance Management and Data Protection:
**Attendance Administration**

- Develop and implement trust wide procedures and processes in relation to pupil attendance legislation.
- To ensure that school-level attendance data is being accurately recorded, in line with DfE and trust requirements, and that summary reports are produced on a regular basis for members of the school's improvement team, Hub Advisory Board Members and Trustees,to include:

- Ensuring that schools are accurately recording attendance data within SIMS and following up 'missing marks’ in a timely fashion.
- Ensuring that schools are consistent in their use of absence coding, in line with DfE and trust requirements.
- Producing weekly reports on absence and persistent absence, including break down by pupil groups at both school and trust level.
- Tracking school and general level of rates of absence and persistent absence over time, including a breakdown by pupil groups.
- Using tools such as FFT Attendance Tracker and DfE Attendance to benchmark school and trust-level attendance data against national comparators.
- Supporting schools with the use of reporting tools in SIMS to identify patterns of poor attendance in pupils.
- Leadership Attendance Officer/Attendance Leader network supporting meetings, training and presentations, including working with local authority attendance teams.
- Lead on the development of organisation -wide Education Welfare Officer (EWO) provision and reporting on activities.
- Working with local authority attendance officers to identify and address areas of common concern and contribute to strategic planning of local and regional solutions.
- Working with parents/carers/guardians and local authority colleagues to deliver legal requirements including providing evidence to support legal actions where required.
- Develop effective induction processes for school's -based staff undertaking the support for pupil attendance recording and reporting including information as required by attendance leads in school, preparation of statutory returns and collation of evidenceto support legal actions as required. Provide onsite support to school-based staff as required.
- Operate and support development and implementation of commercial and bespoke systems used to support specific elements of attendance practice. Including but not limited to SIMS, Analytics, Observatory and FFT Aspire.
- To work alongside the DoI and senior officers of the Improvement Team to support commissioned audit activity where appropriate.
- To act in accordance with, and actively promote, all trust policies, including Data Protection, Safeguarding, Health and Safety and Equality & Diversity.
- To participate in CPD to develop the role and to engage in Performance Development Reviews (PDRs).
- Preparing and contributing to trust wide development by sharing best practice and delivering/receiving professional feedback.
- To retain confidentiality and maintain data and/or files in accordance with trust policies for data governance, as appropriate for the role.
**Data Protection**

- To provide support for the trust Data Protection Officer, to include:

- Acting as assistant DPO when required.
- support and contribute to the development and implementation of trust wide procedures and processes in relation to data protection legislation.
- Provide effective administration support for DPO activities including producing routine correspondence, preparation and compilation of documentation and maintaining accurate records of data protection activity in GDPRiS as required.
- Supporting analysis and interpretation of data protection activity and assist in the production of detailed information, advice and guidance as a result of this analysis to support data protection leads in schools.


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