Attendance Officer

Permanent – 37 hours per week / 39 weeks per year

Grade 4, Point 9 – £23,249 (actual salary)

Required from 22nd April 2025 / start of Summer term

 

We are looking for an experienced Attendance Officer to join the team at Holbrook Academy.

The successful candidate will provide effective and efficient student support services focusing on attendance and punctuality. The skills required for the role include excellent communication, organisational and data analysis.   The role is based in the main office so will also include welcoming any visitors in a calm, efficient and professional manner.

Duties will include:-

  • Completing attendance registers in line with statutory and Academy guidelines
  • Responsibility for all aspects of attendance including incoming and outgoing telephone calls relating to follow up absence
  • Working with parents/carers, Educational Welfare Officer and the Pastoral team, under the guidance of the Assistant Headteacher – Pastoral, regarding poor attendance
  • Producing weekly attendance data
  • Monitoring any unauthorised absences
  • Supporting the Pastoral team in communicating with families to ensure understanding around the importance of attendance and punctuality
  • Supporting in the main office with any other administration duties including photocopying, collating, record keeping

Ideally, you will have experience of working in a school setting and be able to use Word, Excel and databases.  The ability to prioritise and work efficiently and accurately in a busy environment is essential.  The role includes communicating with parents/carers in a caring manner, maintaining confidentiality at all times.

Holbrook Academy is a popular, secondary school to the south of Ipswich easily accessible from the A12 and A14. We currently have 590 students on roll and pride ourselves on our positive and supportive ethos and our passion is to ensure that ‘everybody can be somebody’.  The school remains ‘Good’ across all aspects following a monitoring inspection by Ofsted in June 2024.

Please contact Sarah Beazley, PA to Headteacher, for further details – sarah.beazley@holbrookacademy.org or 01473 328317