Attendance Pastoral Support

Turner Schools is looking to appoint a highly reliable and efficient **Attendance Pastoral Support. **Your role will beto provide a specialist service to help the school raise achievement by improving school attendance and punctuality. You will support the personal development, learning and welfare of the pupils and ensure good order, discipline and appropriate behaviour. You will be able to promote positive attitudes towards education and be responsible for all attendance matters. Please see the job description for full details of the role.
- Excellent people skills, being able to respond appropriately to diverse and sometimes challenging situations.
- Ability to interact effectively and sensitively with young people
- Confidence when dealing with parents and external agencies
- Capacity to respond calmly and sensitively under pressure.
- High level of communication skills.
- High level of literacy skills.
- High level of IT skills with knowledge of Bromcom or Google Suite an advantage.
- Experience of working in a school, with a knowledge of school-based systems would be preferable.

**Benefits of Working for Turner Schools**:
We care about our staff's personal and professional wellbeing and are pleased to offer the following benefits:

- Fully funded access to Benenden Healthcare
- Outstanding professional development through our Turner Institute
- Regular wellbeing and social activities
- Counselling and mental wellbeing support
- Access to Mental Health First Aiders
- Electric car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Innovation Awards that encourage staff to put forward innovative ideas to make a difference to children’s experiences
- Trust Vision and Values awards to recognise staff contribution
- Free parking on all our sites with access to E chargers

37 hours a week

Term Time + 2 additional weeks (to include INSET days)

The working hours would principally be 8.30am - 4.30pm but the ability to be flexible around this, sometimes starting and finishing later to accommodate meetings, would be ideal.

**Information about the trust**

Turner Schools is a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) with schools in Folkestone and Dover on the beautiful Kent coast. The Turner Schools family includes six schools in Folkestone:

- Dover Christ Church Academy, Folkestone Primary, Folkestone Academy, Morehall Primary, Martello Primary, Turner Free School

We provide education through pre-school, primary, secondary and on to sixth form. Each academy is individual and responds to the needs of its local community to provide the best possible opportunity for its young people. We promote high academic standards, while ensuring crucial opportunities for personal and emotional development.

Turner Schools is committed to Transforming children’s futures Empowering children’s futures Strengthening communities.

To help us achieve this, Turner Staff ‘Walk the Turner Talk’

They will:

- Speak and act with care: always show compassion and respect for children. - Act boldly: be ambitious for yourself and the children and young people we serve. - Learn from adversity: be evaluative, thoughtful and reflective. - Challenge convention: be curious, welcome difference and unfamiliar thinking. - Connect with others: support colleagues, parents and pupils to make a great team. - Use your voice: offer different views and ask questions. - Do what it takes: be relentless in pursuing the best for children. - Ask for support: be open and honest when plans go awry. - Don’t give up: be calm, resilient and measured when managing challenges.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £20,997.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

Work Location: In person