Attendance Administrator

We are seeking to appoint an organised, ambitious, self-motivated and passionate member of staff to join our very effective and highly valued Student Support team.

Working in partnership with key school staff, including the Attendance Officer, you will collect, record, monitor and reporting on attendance and punctuality data. You will be supporting the school to improve attendance levels and reduce persistent absence, working alongside the Attendance Officer and the Surrey Inclusion Officer and you will be responsible for the administrative support needed to promote whole school attendance strategies.

If you ...

• are a resilient and highly skilled communicator

• are a practitioner who has the highest expectations of themselves and others

• are energetic and driven

• able to work under pressure and meet deadlines

• have a good eye for detail and a high level of accuracy in your work

… then we would love to hear from you.

Candidates should ideally have experience of working with young people, have excellent communication skills and a good level of education. The ability to build good relationships with staff, students and their parents is essential. A high level of confidentiality will also apply to this role.

The role will involve working closely with the Attendance Officer to ensure registers are completed accurately and in a timely manner and to ensure and data related to attendance and punctuality is efficiently recorded. The role will also involve liaising with other staff, parents and sometimes external agencies along with administrative duties related to attendance, such as letters and phone calls home.

We are looking for someone who will be available for 22.5 hours over 5 days per week, term time only (39 weeks) (8:00am to 12:30pm daily).

The successful candidate will:

• Care deeply and have high ambitions for every one of our students

• Be flexible and adaptable

• Ideally have some experience of working with young people in a school or other setting

• Be organised, efficient and competent with Microsoft Office packages and quick to learn new software (e.g. Arbor, our MIS system).

This post holder will join our wider Student Support Team which includes the Engagement Team, the Welfare Team and the Learning Support team. We have an excellent team of associate staff and teachers across the school and our students are a delight to work with.

As part of a multi academy trust there are many opportunities for collaboration and sharing of good practice across the member schools.

We are looking for a candidate with the skills and experience to make a real difference as our school expands to its maximum capacity. We are looking for someone who will be a team player in our high-achieving school where we challenge all students and staff to be the best they can be.

We are an oversubscribed and friendly school with big ambitions and our staff and students are “proud to belong … proud to achieve”. “One parent described the school as having ‘a family approach’, a view mirrored by staff and students during the inspection” (Ofsted January 2023). Our growing school has undergone significant refurbishment over the last two years, with further plans in progress. Planning application is in progress for a state-of-the-art extension to our Drama studio and a new English block and library.

We are an 11-16 Academy of 870 students, growing to our maximum capacity of 900 in September 2023. We are situated in a fantastic location on the outskirts of Haslemere. Haslemere lies in Surrey, on the border with Hampshire and West Sussex and we have excellent road and rail links to neighbouring counties. We are situated just 3 minutes’ drive off the main A3 and we are also fortunate to have a train station in Haslemere on the mainline from Portsmouth to London Waterloo. This makes us very accessible from the South Coast or outer London areas by train or car.