School Attendance Officer

School Attendance OfficerBased in Great Barr, Birmingham£14.50-£15ph

Your new company

A busy oversubscribed Secondary School is looking for an Attendance Officer. The cover is Monday to Friday, term time only, 8 am - 4 pm. The role is a long term role to start in September 2025.

Your new role

The role will be to log registers and chase parents for any absent pupils. This is schools that has a number of issues with attendance so it will entail tracking pupil attendance and lateness as well as carrying out home visits to put actions on place to improve attendance. You must be a confident individual with the ability to have difficult conversations with parents at time.
What you'll need to succeed

You will need to have a high level of communication and IT skills and be able to work quickly under your initiative. You will also have recent satisfactory references for carrying out a similar placement within the last 2 years. You will also need to have an up to date DBS check, the school can't accept any applicants without this.
What you'll get in return

Hays Education has had an established Support Service desk in Birmingham for over ten years, providing quality non classroom based staff into schools. We also provide free Child Protection and Safeguarding Training to any candidate who is registered and working for us as part of their CPD.

What you need to do now

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