Job Title: Attendance Officer
Actual Starting Salary: £27,362 - £29,850 Based on Term Time only plus inset days.
Full Time Equivalent Salary: £31,954 - £34,860 (CLF Grade D) Based on Full Time hours, All year round.
Contract Type: Fixed Term until 31 August 2027
Hours: 37 hours per week
Provisional Start date: April 2026
Do you believe that excellent school attendance is vital to unlocking students’ potential and ensuring they thrive in their educational journey?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Attendance Officers to join our team at John Cabot Academy. We are seeking individuals with a strong understanding of the barriers to attendance, excellent organisational skills, and the confidence to build positive relationships with students, families, and external partners. You will play a key role in promoting a positive culture of attendance and maintaining accurate, statutory attendance records in line with academy policy and legislation. The attached job description and person specification provide full details of the responsibilities and expectations.
The Attendance Officers will work closely with parents and carers to improve attendance outcomes, ensuring pupils are supported, monitored, and encouraged to engage fully with academy life. You will take a proactive approach; identifying concerns early, implementing interventions, and contributing to an inclusive, supportive environment for all students.
About you:
You will have:
- Good literacy and numeracy skills, evidenced by GCSE Maths and English or equivalent qualifications or experience.
- An understanding of the wide range of issues that can impact a young person’s attendance and a willingness to stay informed of developments in this area.
- A good understanding of safeguarding within an educational setting or transferable safeguarding experience.
- Strong administrative experience, including maintaining accurate records, following processes, handling sensitive information, and working to strict deadlines.
- Excellent ICT skills, including the ability to analyse data, input information accurately, and produce high‑quality reports and statistics.
- The ability to build strong, professional relationships with students, parents/carers, academy staff, and external agencies.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to manage challenging or sensitive conversations professionally.
- The ability to work both independently and collaboratively to achieve attendance targets and improve outcomes for pupils.
- Full, clean driving licence with daily access to a vehicle and willingness to obtain business insurance.
About John Cabot Academy:
John Cabot Academy is an 11-16 academy in South Gloucestershire, close to the border of Bristol. We share our site and staffing with the CLF Post-16 provision, forming an 11-18 academy, which has earned a strong reputation both locally and regionally.
We want our students to thrive academically; flourish and grow as young people. When they leave us they will have a strong sense of self, their place in the world and the agency to fulfil their potential. To fulfill this ambition, our staff are inspired by learning and create a school where students are engaged, challenged and inspired.
We have a supportive and compassionate culture in which the whole person is nurtured and the voice of students is valued. We celebrate the diversity of the members our community by enabling them to learn from each other, by encouraging them to respect each other’s differences, and by providing opportunities to contribute to academy life and the wider community.
Why work at CLF?
We are a diverse and inclusive community of 36 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters. Over 59% of the students who attend John Cabot Academy are from global majority groups, so we particularly encourage applicants from those groups in order to represent the students we serve, as well as wider underrepresented groups including gender, transgender, age disability, sexual orientation or religion.
We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
What we can offer you:
- Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Generous annual leave.
- A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
- Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
- A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
- Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!
Recruitment timeline:
- Closing Date: 25 February 2026 @11.59pm
- Shortlisting: 26 February 2026
- Interviews: 04 March 2026
We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment.
As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.
Please note we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to equity and inclusion and commit to interviewing applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. We aim to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and support employees throughout their employment. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process please let us know how we can assist.
The Cabot Learning Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles across the trust have a varying level of responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice, with some roles holding significant responsibility and involving working with children on a daily basis in regulated activity. Regardless of the level of responsibility and involvement in each role, we expect all staff, visiting professionals and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will undergo a comprehensive pre-employment checking process, including an enhanced DBS check (including a further check against the appropriate barred list), references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, child disqualification (where applicable), prohibition from teaching/management and online checks. You must also tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.