Attendance and Behaviour Officer

**Grade: E SCP 6**

**Salary: £23,893 per annum pro rata (Actual £20,712 per annum)**

**Vacancy Hours: 37 hours per week, term time only**

**Location: Lady Lumley’s School**

**Contract Type: Permanent**

**Start Date: As soon as possible**

**Our Opportunity**

We are looking to appoint an Attendance and Behaviour Officer, to enhance and work within our current pastoral team.

Your role will encourage students to have a positive outlook throughout their time at Lady Lumley’s, supporting students to maintain good behaviour and attendance, a life skill which will help them well beyond their time at Lady Lumley’s.

Here at Lady Lumley’s, we are fortunate to have a strong and skilled team who make such a difference to our students. As our new colleague, you will assist in the promotion of outstanding attendance by working in partnership with all stakeholders and the wider community.

The Attendance and Behaviour Officer will work directly with all stakeholders in an empathetic, understanding way. Providing encouraging, challenging, and supporting improvements in attendance at an individual, cohort, and whole school level.

The Attendance and Behaviour Officer will provide key data both for attendance and behaviour to support students.

The role will include:

- Being the operational lead for student attendance and punctuality for Years 7 to 11, implementing the school’s attendance policy and improving the attendance of students.
- Promoting the importance of good attendance - ensuring that students, parents, and carers understand that regular school attendance is a parental responsibility, and that attendance and attainment are inextricably linked.
- Responsible for recording, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on attendance and behaviour data to support the students within the school.

**Lady Lumley’s School**

Lady Lumley’s benefits from the knowledge and experience of Coast and Vale Trust. We retain our unique school identity with a shared ambitious vision. Through leadership development, collaboration, and investment, Lady Lumley’s is enabled to maintain its identity whilst belonging to a larger family of schools.

**Coast and Vale Learning Trust**

Coast and Vale Learning Trust is a growing family of schools located on the beautiful Yorkshire Coast. The Trust was founded by Scalby Secondary School but has grown over the last few years to include Newby and Scalby Primary School, and Friarage Primary School. As well as Scarborough University Technical College (SUTC) in Scarborough, Filey School, and Lady Lumley’s Secondary School in Pickering. Our ambition is to continue to welcome new schools into our Trust where we can add capacity, resources, improvement and make sure all our young people have access to the very best education.

The aim of the trust is to serve all the education community along the North Yorkshire Coast and down the Vale of Pickering. We are committed to supporting all schools in becoming great schools, whether they are part of Coast and Vale Learning Trust or not. The learners of our community deserve the best education regardless of their background or location.

Choosing where to work and who to work for is one of the vitally important decisions in life. In choosing to work for Coast and Vale Learning Trust you would be joining a team of colleagues dedicated to transforming the lives of 3000 children and young people.

We have a simple vision in wanting our schools to be places ‘where children and staff thrive’. Coast and Vale Learning Trust will work tirelessly to make this a reality.

**Working For Us**

As well as being committed to your ongoing development and training, we also offer a range of employee benefits, including a competitive salary, access to a government pension scheme, an employee assistance programme, as well as a variety of retail discounts.

**Closing date: Friday 8th March at 9am**

**Interviews: to be held shortly after**

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**Application Process**

We do not accept CVs.
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