Teaching Vacancies
Attendance Strategic Lead
Key Responsibilities
- Establish a dynamic vision for outstanding attendance.
- Dynamic leadership and management of the attendance team, line managing a group of attendance officers.
- Strategise and develop a whole school attendance strategy as part of the extended leadership team.
- Working closely with DSL to quality assure attendance procedures and follow the national guidance in “Working Together to Keep Children Safe in Education”.
- Monitor accurate student attendance and lateness records on a daily basis.
- Follow up on student absences and lateness by telephone or other means, on a daily basis with guidance from relevant colleagues, making appropriate referrals.
- Check on late students.
- Ensure all unexplained absences are accounted for, seek the reason for absence via telephone or letter home if required.
- Check the accuracy and correct coding on registers.
- Follow the Attendance policy and send out letters as required.
- Identify and track vulnerable individuals and/or groups of students that require additional support to improve their levels of attendance and punctuality.
- Identify and implement intervention strategies to address poor attendance and celebrate excellent attendance.
- Deliver attendance interventions, where appropriate.
- Conduct home visits to students and parents/carers as appropriate.
- Initiate and follow through appropriate sanctions in liaison with the relevant colleagues and other professionals including fines and court action.
- In liaison with relevant colleagues/school management, attend follow-up meetings and other relevant meetings with parents/carers and/or other professionals to provide relevant information, offer support and seek ways in which the school can help improve individual attendance and punctuality.
- Liaise with outside agencies, parents/carers, social services, other schools and/or organisations in relation to information on student attendance and punctuality.
- Establish and maintain good relationships with all students, parents/carers, colleagues and other professionals.
- Assist and check records prior to the Census to ensure school attendance is accurate and up to date.
- Provide accurate and timely attendance and lateness reports to relevant colleagues, the leadership team and Governors.
- Provide updates for staff on student attendance.
- Keep up to date with training centred around attendance systems, such as SIMS, Insight, ClassCharts etc.
- Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people in accordance with the schools Safeguarding and Child Protection policy.
Skills and Expertise
- Experience managing a team
- Knowledge and experience of working within a large school
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