Attendance & Community Officer

- Attendance

· Contribute to the implementation, organisation and monitoring of all student attendance and punctuality matters in order that targets are met;

· Be responsible for visiting students where poor attendance and punctuality is a factor. Develop innovative and new ways of encouraging families to make attendance and punctuality at the Academy a top priority.

· Challenge unauthorised absence including the responsibility for home visits to investigate and challenge non-attendance.

· Develop and maintain effective and productive working relationships with all relevant agencies in relation to attendance, including family support workers, Elective Home Education Team (EHE) and Children Missing Education Team (CME) (within Nottingham LA) in order to work collaboratively together.

· Be responsible for referrals to the Educational Welfare Service (EWS) on all formal non-attendance procedures. · Work with appropriate staff to develop individual action plans to improve attendance/punctuality with individual students when their attendance/punctuality gives cause for concern.

· Be responsible for enquiries relating to attendance and punctuality by students, parents/carers and staff.

· Develop specialist knowledge of attendance and punctuality issues and best practice and provide advice and guidance to the SLT on matters relating to attendance and community matters

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Pastoral Administration

· Assist with student welfare duties

· Be proficient and responsible for
using the Academy behaviour monitoring software (Go4Schools) and
providing meaningful and accurate reports on student behaviour on a daily,
weekly, termly and annual basis
to support with the rewards and sanctions for the Academy.

· Work with relevant Academy colleagues
on the development of student IEPs.

General Administration

· To
undertake a comprehensive range of administration tasks, ensuring that work is
prioritised and deadlines are met.

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Undertake general office duties, answering general telephone calls and face to
face enquiries, photocopying, minute taking, etc.

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Enter and retrieve data relating to students onto the SIMS.net database and
other software packages as
required. Produce statistical reports from SIMS.net and other database
packages.