Attendance Link Worker

**Salary**:
£29,748 (Actual) CLF Grade E (£34,740 - £38,419) Term-time only plus, inset days

**Job type**:
Full Time, Fixed Term

**Start date**:
ASAP

12 March 2025

**Job overview**:
**We are looking for a Attendance Link Worker to join our supportive and talented team at**

**Tewkesbury Academy**

**.**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Attendance Link Workers. We are seeking individuals with a deep understanding of the barriers to attendance, who will build strong relationships with students and their families and is able to advocate on their behalf where needed, to ensure students receive the suitable education to which they are entitled. The attached person specification and job description outline the duties and responsibilities.

The Attendance Link Workers will work in partnership with parents and carers to support their children and understand their needs. The aim is to improve pupils’ school attendance and engagement with learning. The postholders will work proactively, finding ways to make the academy as inclusive and accessible as possible; and will increase parental engagement.

These are fixed-term contracts, ending on 31st August 2026. The pay grade is CLF E. The roles have become available due to a trial of a new attendance structure.

The Academy is well placed at Junction 9 of the M5. It is equidistant between Bristol and Birmingham and close to the Cotswolds, the Malvern Hills and the historic towns of Gloucester, Worcester and Cheltenham. Tewkesbury itself is a pretty, medieval market town with fine half-timbered buildings, overhanging upper storeys, narrow alleys and a beautiful 12th-century Norman abbey.
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**About the Cabot Learning Federation**:
The Cabot Learning Federation is a diverse Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) in the South West. We are proud to serve 18,000+ pupils who all attend nine secondary academies, nine primary academies, an all-through provision, a studio school, a discrete Post-16 provision, two alternative provision schools and three SEMH special schools.

We are proud to be part of diverse communities in the region and celebrate the richness of cultures, faiths and backgrounds of our students. We aim to develop a curriculum that is responsive to our pupils' needs and reflects their diverse interests and backgrounds.

**Closing date: 12 March 2025.**

**Interview date: 20 March 2025.**
- The Cabot Learning Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This role has significant responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice within the academy. This role involves working with children on a daily basis and is therefore in regulated activity._

**About**Tewkesbury Academy**:
**Tewkesbury Academy**
- Ashchurch Road, Tewkesbury
- Gloucestershire
- GL20 8DF
- United Kingdom

+44 1684 292152

Tewkesbury Academy is an exciting place to learn and work, with a student body of over 1,200 and upwards of 150 colleagues. We serve the distinctive town of Tewkesbury and surrounding villages, with its renowned historical, musical and ecological festivals each year. The sense of community and connectedness is strong at the Academy, as is support from the wider business community, and this is reflected in the plethora of personal development opportunities at the school.

Being ready, respectful and responsible is a key tenet of life at Tewkesbury Academy, where we provide a calm and supportive environment and expect commitment and hard work from students and staff alike to ensure that they feel supported and challenged to produce their best.

Tewkesbury Academy joined the CLF in July 2023 and is the founding school in the Gloucestershire Cluster. Since that time, two sibling schools have joined: Queen Margaret’s Primary Academy in Tewkesbury and Brook Academy in Brockworth. It is an exciting time to join the school as we design the future of the cluster and how we will impact positively beyond our own academy walls.

Tewkesbury Academy’s last inspection was under the predecessor school in Autumn 2022 - published January 2023 - where the Academy was designated to ‘Requires Improvement’. A year later, and there has been rapid improvement in the key areas of SEND, early reading and behaviour. The staff and leadership teams are engaged in a relentless drive for the Academy to regain Good and then move beyond that to be the great school this community deserves.

By joining us, you will be able to seize the chance to make a real difference to the lives of our students and help us to realise our ambition for a great provision. We have a strong ethos and high expectations for every child, and this is reflected in the rigour of the approaches and strategies being used to raise attainment, secure our culture and generate genuine aspiration and ambition amongst our cohort.