Attendance Officer

**Salary**:
NJC Grade 5, point 15 to 20

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
As soon as possible

30 April 2025

**Job overview**:
**Post: Attendance Officer**

**Location: Ecclesfield School**

**Salary: Grade 5, Point 15: £29,093 to 20: £31,586 gross per annum**

**Actual Annual Salary: £26,948.81 to £29,258.07 (under 5 years of service)**

**Contract: Permanent, full time, 37 hours per week, 42 working weeks**

**Start date: As soon as possible**

Minerva Learning Trust is a growing multi-academy trust committed to providing an outstanding education for students from a wide variety of backgrounds across Sheffield and Derbyshire. Founded in 2014, Minerva Learning Trust has expanded to a thriving family of schools, including primary, secondary, sixth form, and a unique post-16 provision. We have a strong track record of school improvement, successfully transforming schools from Ofsted ratings of RI and Inadequate to GOOD.

We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Attendance Officer to work as part of the school attendance team. The post holder will undertake morning attendance duties as part of the attendance team in order to improve student attendance.
- be self-motivated and have the ambition to develop with the support of the Trust Education Welfare Officer.
- have the ability to work as part of a team and to work independently.
- have good interpersonal skills that ensure organisational communication is effective with students and families.
- utilise a range of systems to ensure accuracy of data and attendance records.
- have the ability and skill to motivate students to improve their attendance levels.
- have good communication and liaison skills and the ability to establish and maintain good personal working relationships with all members of the school community.
- be willing to work flexibly to meet the demands of the job.

If you would like to discuss the role please contact Jo Revill, Headteachers PA via
- Applications should be made by completing the Minerva Learning Trust Support Staff Application Form found on the Trust website.

**The closing date is at 9am on Wednesday 30 April 2025 and interviews will take place week commencing 05 May 2025.**

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment, further information can be found in our child protection and safeguarding policy on our statutory information page on our website
- Statutory Information - Minerva Learning Trust

**About**Ecclesfield School**:
**Ecclesfield School**
- Chapeltown Road, Ecclesfield, Sheffield
- South Yorkshire
- S35 9WD
- United Kingdom

+44 114 246 1156

**Headteacher - Richard Walkden**

Located in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Ecclesfield School is a larger-than-average secondary school, educating around 1,700 pupils aged 11-16 in a co-educational setting. Originally founded as a grammar school in 1931, the school converted to academy status in 2014.

Ecclesfield School has seen extensive redevelopment and modernisation over the years, with a series of new buildings completed in the early 2000s.

**Values and vision**

Ecclesfield School is committed to providing an education that works for all students, regardless of academic ability or background. The secondary school seeks to achieve this by providing a deep and engaging curriculum, in which teachers maintain a close relationship with pupils and their families.

Ecclesfield has high expectations of its students. It strives to ensure that older students have a proper understanding of their options, in terms of work or further study, upon leaving school.

**Ofsted report**

May 2022 - 50188906 (ofsted.gov.uk)

**About Minerva Learning Trust**

**Chief Executive Officer - Bev Matthews**

Minerva Learning Trust is a multi-academy trust of schools. We are committed to providing an outstanding education for pupils who are from a wide variety of backgrounds across the city of Sheffield. Inclusion is very important to us. We do not allow disadvantage to be a barrier to learning and we support all our pupils to be the very best. Our pupils show a high level of care for each other and respect each other’s diversity.

Founded In 2014, Minerva Learning Trust grew from an outstanding single-academy, and has since grown to include primary, secondary, sixth form and one, unique post-16 provision. We have demonstrated a successful tenure of school improvement, growing schools from RI and inadequate Ofsted status to GOOD overall.

**Websites**

Ecclesfield School Minerva Learning Trust - Home - Minerva Learning Trust