School Attendance Office

4 weeks ago


Croydon, United Kingdom Vision Teaching Full time

Role Purpose
- To contribute to raising achievement by improving school attendance.
- To provide a specialist service to assist the school in meeting their obligations and targets in relation to school attendance, especially persistent absence.
- To promote positive attitudes by students and families towards education and to ensure that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities.
- To make unsupervised contact with families in their own homes and elsewhere to assess the reasons impacting on the attendance of individual students, facilitating their return or access to regular full-time education provision.
- To establish and develop a professional service to support the school in raising attendance, investigating persistent absences and improving punctuality.

The successful Attendance Officer will have:

- Previous school office experience
- Outstanding customer service skills
- Ability to multitasking
- Excellent people and team working skills
- Excellent organisation
- Able to use their own initiative
- Proficient using all Microsoft packages
- SIMs experience
Main Duties and responsibilities
- To advise the school on strategies to promote the regular and punctual attendance of all students and assist with the implementation of the strategies.
- Meet with school staff, students and parents to identify individual problems and possible solutions.
- To make unsupervised contact with families in response to allocated referrals i.e. home visits and /or meetings in school.
- To establish the reason for non attendance, make assessments and agree a plan for facilitating a return to school using appropriate strategies within specified timescales.
- To initiate appropriate legal action with Education Welfare Service (EWS) to ensure the school is carrying out its statutory responsibility in respect of students. This will include preparing statements, attending and presenting evidence or request theissuing of penalty notice fines or other legal sanctions and completion of Common Assessment Form (CAF) referrals.
- To be fully aware of and carry out all work in line with Child Protection Procedures. This may involve attending case conferences, strategy and planning meetings as will as core groups or other meetings in relation to child protection cases that requireinput.



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