Attendance Improvement Officer

3 weeks ago

Wakefield, United Kingdom Leodis Academies Trust Full time

**Purpose of the role**

To be accountable for the attendance and punctuality of students at Woodkirk Academy by supporting students and families, and liaising and working closely with other agencies. Where necessary carrying out the statutory duty of legal action, when parents are failing in their commitments under the Academy home school agreement and when all efforts to help improve attendance have failed to secure the student’s regular attendance.

**Main duties and responsibilities**
- Embed a culture of high student attendance through taking all opportunities to raise the profile of attendance with all stakeholders.
- Support SLT to ensure an effective strategic overview for improving Attendance.
- To plan and chair attendance initiatives meetings as appropriate.
- To plan, implement, operate and evaluate attendance initiatives including the Fast Track process and support the operational effectiveness of the system through effective monitoring and quality assurance procedures.
- Contribute to the development, review and implementation of the school’s attendance and admissions policies and procedures.
- Encourage good relations and effective dialogue between parents/carers and school
- Meet with students and parents to support, challenge and monitor attendance, for example through leading Fast Track processes.
- Take the initiative in recognising potential barriers to attendance early and proactively planning to mitigate them.
- Make home visits where appropriate to support all students, in particular disadvantaged students in returning to school or to ensure welfare if students have not been in school for prolonged periods of time.
- Work with parents/carers to develop and implement an action plan to support families in respect of barriers to education through the provision of Early Help Support, including multiagency working signposting and referring to specialist services as necessary. Proactively maintain and develop contacts with appropriate statutory and voluntary agencies.
- Develop and organise attendance incentive schemes, which promote and celebrate achievements for individual children and young people.
- To support the Pastoral team, instigating and delivering strategies to target improvements in attendance for pupils recognised as being at particular risk of poor attendance.
- Act as a source of support, advice, challenge and expertise for staff within the school for attendance.
- Keep accurate and timely records/documentation from meetings/contact with children, young people and their families to support casework for legal intervention and to support future planning.
- Provide reports on attendance to leaders that allow positive trends for groups of students to be celebrated and negative trends to have interventions applied. Proactively highlight key points or concerns and challenge where issues are not addressed.
- Present impact data on the attendance of students over time, broken down by vulnerable groups and other appropriate classifications.
- To be responsible for the 'first day' absence system and its follow up procedures.
- Support Admin staff to analyse absence data from each lesson on SIMS, identifying unexplained absences.
- Supporting Admin and pastoral staff to identify students where punctuality is a concern.
- Investigate the reasons for student absence by making appropriate enquiries, liaising daily with colleagues who may contribute to this.
- Produce and send letters regarding lateness and attendance/truancy.
- Manage and monitor term-time holiday requests and support Admin staff to issue penalty notices as required.
- To work with the appropriate agencies to carry out the statutory duty of legal action when all attempts to improve attendance have failed.
- To ensure the Children Missing Education procedure is followed by the Academy.
- To undertake planned truancy sweeps with the police.
- Where appropriate, challenge requests for students to leave the school, including following the school procedure for elective home education requests.
- Follow all protocols on UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 and confidentiality whilst sharing findings, concerns and relevant information with key staff as appropriate.
- Liaise with schools and agencies that require information on a particular student.
- Be available for parents’ evenings when necessary to discuss attendance issues.
- Complete Safeguarding Training to Level 3 competency.
- Complete activities relevant to the role when at work during holiday periods.

**General Responsibilities**
- Represent the Academy at evening events and holiday activities relevant to the role, as required and as per the Academy calendar.
- Consistently promote positive student behaviours, for example orderly movement around the site and punctuality to lessons, in line with Academy policies.
- Actively engage with students, positively reinforcing responsible behaviour and challenging negative behaviour when

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