Attendance Officer

An opportunity has arisen for the appointment of an Attendance and Educational Improvement Officer at Richard Lander School.

The main purpose of this role is to contribute to raising achievement by improving school attendance.

• Provide a specialist service to assist the school in meeting their obligations and targets in relation to school attendance, especially persistent absence.
• Promote positive attitudes by students and families towards education and ensure that parents/carers are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities. This involves support in the preparatory work for any prosecution of persistent absence.
• Make unsupervised contact with families in their own homes and elsewhere to assess the reasons impacting on the attendance of individual students, facilitating their return to access to regular full time education provision.
• Establish and develop a professional service to support the school in raising attendance, investigating persistent absences and improving punctuality.

We are committed to safeguarding children and the successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and will be assessed against the Childcare Disqualification Regulations.