Family Support Liaison Officer - Attendance

We are looking for a Family Support Liaison Officer
- Attendance. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated and committedindividual to join our Attendance and Student Welfare Team to enable us to support and improve student attendance.

At Henley Bank High School, our aspiration is for all our staff and students to leave ourschool with practical wisdom gained through the teaching of intellectual,moral, civic and performance virtues.

We are a successful secondary school based in Brockworth, extremely close to junction 11a of the M5. The school has consistently been achieving excellent academic results over the past few yearswith the GCSE results of 2023 being in the top 1% of results in the country, aswell as the highest results for any non-selective school in Gloucestershire. Weopened our Sixth Form in September 2024 and are really excited to see what thenext stage in the school’s journey will be.

A crucial element of the school’svision is ensuing that we are preparing our young people for the world of tomorrow. This role plays an essential part in achieving this.

Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellentquality, comprehensive and inclusive education through primary schools andsecondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire,Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also havethree shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character.

We thrive from collaboration atevery level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.

The Family Support and Liaison Officer
- Attendance will work alongside key members of school, staff, young people,families and other agencies to support and improve student attendance

• To work with the Attendance Officer and other relevantstaff on improving whole school attendance to consistently be in excess of 95%.
• Towork with families and groups of families where attendance is a concern
• Runevents in school for families who children have poor attendance
• Arrangeand undertake home visits, implementing strategies to improve their attendance
• Holdregular meetings with the attendance, pastoral, safeguarding, SEND andbehaviour teams to discussstudents' barriers, and support that can be offered
• Hold Attendance Action Plan & attendance support plan meetings with parents andset targets for students - then consistently monitoring progress against themwith built in review points.
• Attend meetings with parents/carers where a student has fallen into/was about to fallinto persistent absence (PA) and that medical evidence/return to schoolmeetings would be required to authorise all further absences.
• Totake supportive remedial action in respect of individual absentees to securetheir regular attendance at school or other education provision.
• Tomake referral to, to liaise and collaborate in joint work with otherpractitioners, educational colleagues, local agencies and community groups in relation both to individual cases and aspects of children’s general welfare.
• Towork with small targeted groups of students to improve attendance either one toone or in small workshops.
• Monitortargets groups of students and monitor interventions.
• Support the attendance tracking systems and ensure they are kept up to date with newinterventions and targets.
• Collateevidence and prepare paperwork for potential legal proceedings.
• Support Child Missing in Education (CME) referrals to Gloucester County Council, aswell as support other referrals, such as section 19.
• Attendregular meetings with Greenshaw Learning Trust, Head of Attendance and attendance officer
• Tosupport a service to collect students who have failed to attend schoolpunctually, or are known to struggle to attend.
• Toattend multi-agency meetings as and when necessary.
• Tosupport the wider pastoral team, and the team leading on Attendance in the useof…