Lincolnshire Gateway Academies Trust
Attendance Officer EDV/2026/LA/28844
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Attendance Officer
Waltham Toll Bar Academy
LGAT 10 - LGAT 14 (dependant on experience)
Salary - £30,213 - £33,610 pro rata
Actual Salary: £25,832.12 (LGAT 10) - £28,736.55 (LGAT 14)
37 Hours per week - Term Time only - 195 days
Permanent
Waltham Toll Bar Academy is recruiting an Attendance Officer.
The postholder will work closely with senior colleagues, families, and relevant agencies to promote, facilitate, and enforce regular attendance across Academies.
Responsibilities:
- To support and enforce high expectations of attendance at the Academy
- To ensure first day absence procedures are completed and robust
- To support Heads of Year with attendance and welfare issues
- To help remove welfare barriers to learning and attendance, enabling students to make at least expected progress
- To deal with issues in a positive manner, communicating actions to staff and parents as appropriate
- To be proactive in supporting the school behavior system if required. For example, by a presence in corridors at lesson changeovers, break times, end of lunchtimes, end of the school day
- To support individual students to access school and lessons
- To work in conjunction with the Pastoral Team, sharing duties and information as appropriate
- To actively use and develop MIS to monitor and report on students' attendance
- To liaise with outside agencies and attend meetings as appropriate
- To assist with administrative tasks, e.g., maintaining accurate records
- To attend meetings and reviews as necessary, contacting parents as required
- To build relationships with parents and resolve issues, liaising with external agencies as directed
- To be alert to safeguarding issues, log onto CPOMS, and pass on concerns as appropriate
- Deal confidentially and sensitively with parents and students undergoing difficulties
- To keep Heads of Year involved and informed of any problems which arise
- To provide and coordinate ongoing support for individual students, e.g., support with bereavement, mental health, family dynamics, and friendships, on a proactive and reactive basis
- To monitor and support students as identified by Pastoral Officers
- To support tutors as agreed/directed by Pastoral Officers
- To ensure all staff contribute to raising achievement by improving school attendance
- To improve and maintain the highest levels of pupil attendance, reducing unauthorized absence
- To maintain appropriate confidentiality
- Provide mentoring support for pupils returning from exclusion to improve their attendance
- Analyse data to identify issues and proactively take action to improve behavior/attendance
- Provide Administrative Support to the Principal
- Specific and general admin for attendance
- Manage suspension letters and administration
- Liaising and meeting with parents as required regarding attendance
- Attending staff/Pastoral briefings as required
- Acknowledging parental contact within 24 hours
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Lincolnshire Gateway Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In line with our safer recruitment practices and statutory guidance on Keeping Children Safe in Education, all applicants must be willing to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Additional pre-employment checks will also be carried out, including online/social media check, satisfactory references, and any other appropriate checks necessary in order to assess the suitability to work with children.
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