Attendance Officer - Full-time

As our Attendance Officer, you'll play a vital role in improving student attendance, supporting families, and working closely with staff to ensure all students thrive. If you're someone who loves solving problems, building relationships, and seeing the impact of your work on young people's success, this could be the perfect role for you!
In this dynamic and rewarding position, you'll:
+ Monitor and improve attendance: Use your analytical skills to track attendance trends, identify issues, and develop effective strategies to improve punctuality and reduce absence rates.
+ Engage with families: Build strong relationships with parents and carers, offering support and guidance to overcome barriers to attendance.
+ Collaborate with staff: Work closely with teachers, pastoral staff, and senior leaders to implement attendance policies and ensure a consistent approach across the academy.
+ Ensure compliance: Keep accurate and up-to-date records, produce reports, and ensure attendance processes align with safeguarding and legal requirements.
+ Inspire positive change: Help students understand the value of regular attendance and its impact on their future success.
We're looking for a highly organized and detail-oriented individual with excellent interpersonal skills to engage effectively with students, families, and colleagues. The ideal candidate will be empathetic and understanding, offering support to families while maintaining a focus on student success. You'll bring initiative and problem-solving abilities to overcome attendance challenges and have strong administrative skills to manage data and records accurately. Experience in education or a similar setting is preferred but not essential.
If you're excited about the opportunity to play a key role in supporting our students and promoting a culture of success, we'd love to hear from you!

Are you a highly organized, proactive individual with a passion for making a difference in young people's lives? Leigh Academy Hugh Christie is seeking a dedicated Attendance Officer to help us ensure every student benefits from a full and enriching education., A very warm welcome to Leigh Academy Hugh Christie. Leigh Academy Hugh Christie is a co-educational school, based in Tonbridge. The school is housed in a state-of-the art building on an attractive campus with excellent facilities.
It is our mission that every child at Leigh Academy Hugh Christie is happy, successful and well-prepared for adult life.
We deliver this by having a dedicated staff body, a broad and balanced curriculum with high standards of discipline, creating a disruption free learning environment. Students' wellbeing is of equal importance alongside their academic progress and we offer outstanding support.
Our core values of being ready, being responsible and being respectful underpin everything we do at Leigh Academy Hugh Christie. Students are provided with a range of opportunities both in and out of the classroom to develop these core values.
We are very proud of the students and staff at Leigh Academy Hugh Christie. We aim to develop excellent working relationships with our parents and carers to ensure that all our students enjoy their learning, make excellent academic progress and become well rounded, responsible global citizens.
Our website can only give you a flavour of what we offer at Leigh Academy Hugh Christie, please do come and visit us on one of our open events to meet with our fantastic students and amazing and dedicated staff.

This is a permanent opportunity, working 36.5 hours per week, term time + 1 week of inset and offers an actual salary of £20,072 - £22,128 per annum (£23,656 - £26,079 full-time equivalent), based on experience.