Attendance Officer - Term Time

Attendance Officer – Overview

Turner Free School is looking to appoint a highly reliable and efficient Attendance Officer. Your role will be to provide a specialist service to help the school raise achievement by improving school attendance and punctuality. You will promote positive attitudes towards education and be responsible for all attendance matters.

• 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.

• 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
• 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.

We reserve the right to close the advert early if a suitable candidate is found.

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