ATTENDANCE AND WELFARE OFFICER

We have two vacancies available for this role: one post is available immediately, and a second post will commence in January 2027.

About the role

The Ruth Gorse Academy is seeking to appoint a dedicated, resilient and highly motivated Attendance Officer to join our pastoral team. This is a key role within the academy, focused on promoting excellent attendance and punctuality, ensuring that every student has the opportunity to achieve their full potential. The successful candidate will work closely with students, families, pastoral leaders and external agencies to identify and remove barriers to attendance. They will monitor attendance data, support intervention strategies, conduct home visits where required and build positive relationships with parents and carers to improve outcomes for young people. The role demands a proactive and compassionate individual who is committed to making a difference in the lives of students and ensuring high levels of attendance across the academy.

Responsibilities

• Promote excellent attendance and punctuality across the academy
• Monitor attendance data and analyse trends to inform targeted intervention strategies
• Support and implement intervention strategies to improve student attendance
• Conduct home visits where required to engage with families and address barriers to attendance
• Build and maintain positive relationships with students, parents/carers, pastoral leaders and external agencies
• Work collaboratively to identify and remove barriers to student attendance
• Ensure safeguarding responsibilities are upheld in all attendance-related activities

Requirements

• Experience of working with young people and supporting them to overcome barriers to success, ideally within a secondary school environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with students, parents/carers, colleagues and external agencies
• Strong understanding of attendance processes, safeguarding responsibilities and the factors that can impact student attendance and wellbeing
• Ability to analyse attendance data effectively and use this information to inform targeted intervention strategies
• Passion for improving outcomes for young people, together with the drive, resilience and determination to make a positive difference to students' lives

Benefits

• Membership of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role
• Continued investment in professional development, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme providing confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• £2,000 Cycle to Work scheme

About Us

Working as part of The GORSE Academies Trust, The Ruth Gorse Academy ensures that students receive an outstanding education that focuses on aspiration, high expectations and personalisation. Together these non-negotiable values instil in young people a self-belief that enables students to access the highest standard of higher education provision and employment. We believe that poverty and deprivation should, in no way, limit either the quality of a young person's educational experience or the levels of achievement to which those students are able to rise. In October 2023, the exceptional nature of our work at The Ruth Gorse Academy was again recognised by Ofsted and demonstrated within our GCSE results. We continue to be heavily oversubscribed year on year, as we deliver high quality education for each and every student.