Title: Attendance Officer

Location: Northeast

Pay: £13.50 - £15 per hour including holiday pay

Duration: Full-Time, Start Sep until Dec (at least, potential to be extended)

Reed - Further Education are seeking an Attendance Officer to work with post 16 students tracking their attendance and doing home visits.

What’s the day-to-day responsibilities of an attendance officer?

To manage daily attendance processes effectively, ensuring that students are promptly registered and first day absence notifications and calls are made in a timely manner to ensure the safeguarding and welfare of students.
To work with the Leadership team and pastoral teams to manage effective short-, medium and long-term attendance strategies in-line with both local and national attendance processes.
To work closely with the Attendance and Wellbeing Officer, and Wellbeing team to produce reports, data and analyse intervention to support with their work
To ensure the effective administration of attendance systems and procedures in-line with local and national expectations
To produce reports on attendance, lateness and ongoing trends and the impact of attendance strategies.
To ensure all daily routine attendance processes are completed in a timely manner, including inputting data, distribution of registers, fire registers as required, and first day absence notifications.
To follow up reporting both internally and/or externally as appropriate and notifying Designated Officers of absences related to vulnerable students.
To do home visits to the students where necessary.

What are the required skills and qualifications needed for this role?

Knowledge and/or experience of mentoring
Full working knowledge of relevant policies, including child protection / codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation.
Experience of working with students with additional needs.
Experience interacting with 16–19-year-olds in education or apprentice setting.
Level 2 or equivalent in English and Maths
Car Driver (desirable), if not then good access to public transport.
Excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills
Current Enhanced DBS on the update service or willingness to apply for one through Reed Compliance

If you are ready for a career change, and an attendance officer is the next role for you, click ‘Apply Now’, and register to Reed - Further Education. Alternatively, contact your local Reed - Further Education branch today, where we would love to hear from you and help you shape your next career step.

Reed - Further Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check.

We look forward to your application – Ashleigh King, Leeds