Job Description
We are looking for a Welfare and Attendance Officer to join our academy.
About Us
At Harris Academy Tottenham, we instil an ethos of hard work, dedication and commitment to learning, through our Academy values. These are:
To ENDEAVOUR is to strive for your goals, through maintaining the highest expectations of ourselves.
To ENJOY is to take delight and pleasure in the learning process; To gain a feeling of success through relentless passion and drive.
To EXCEL is to achieve your full potential, through mastery of concepts and an ambition to be the best you can be.
At Harris Academy Tottenham, we are innovative, open and collaborative. We would like fellow innovators, passionate pedagogists and creative class leaders to join us during this exciting time. With a dedicated SLT team on hand for support and guidance, there are a multitude of CPD opportunities to thrive on. You can expect to be a part of a fantastic team of dedicated teachers and support staff as well as an attentive, supportive work culture.
Our brand-new facilities allow us to continue expanding our curriculum offer, ensuring students experiences are both varied and enriching. The premises has undergone a comprehensive programme of refurbishment, and reached completion in May 2019. Our new Sports Block opened in May 2019, and has fantastic facilities including a Sports Hall, Activity Studio, Multi Use Game Areas.
Having been recognised as ‘Outstanding’ by OFSTED in June 2017, we are excited to have new members of staff join us in delivering transformative learning experiences. The inspectors commented that ‘learning is the business of the day’ and that sentiment underpins all that we do. Since then, the school continues to grow and strive for the highest standards.
“At our Academy, children will develop their academic scholarship alongside their character; becoming citizens who are a credit to their local community. We provide an extensive extracurricular programme to allow students to develop as a well-rounded person, ready and prepared to embark upon whichever pathway they desire. That is only possible through the partnership that exists between families and colleagues and partners at the academy. We are incredibly proud of the close relationships that develop between colleagues, parents, governors and pupils, and indeed they are central to all that we do.” Nick Soar, Executive Principal
Main Areas of Responsibility
The main responsibilities of your role will be:
- Maintaining the day to day running of the Student Information and Resources Centre (SIRC), ensuring support for students has a positive impact on raising achievement.
- Daily monitoring and follow-up of attendance and punctuality’ organizing attendance panel meetings with parents/carers, tutors and external agencies, ensure student contracts are agreed and monitored; to assist in home visits as appropriate.
- Ensuring daily attendance information for students is entered accurately on the system.
- Preparing and distributing attendance and punctuality certificates as part of the Academy’s reward policy.
- Preparing and distributing weekly, termly and annual attendance statistics to the Academy Leadership Group and Tutors for planning, control and decision making.
- Organising meetings as appropriate for vulnerable students ensuring all external agencies and relevant staff are invited. Preparing paperwork as appropriate and taking minutes where required.
- Signing students in and out of the Academy outside normal start and finish time, ensuring communication with home where required.
- Dealing efficiently and effectively with referrals on attendance concerns from Houses.
- Alerting the appropriate staff to problems experienced by students and to make recommendations as to how these may be resolved.
- Communicating as appropriate, with the parents of students and with persons or bodies outside the Academy concerned with the welfare of individual students, after consultation with the appropriate staff.
- Maintaining the register of vulnerable students. This to included looked after students, those on child protection register, refugees, YOT or children identified as being in need either by Academy staff or external agencies. To ensure that this information is circulated on a need-to-know basis.
- Managing caseload of ‘at risk’ students, where attendance falls below 90% and implement strategies to improve attendance. Education Welfare Officer to ensure that prompt, consistent and rigorous intervention with poor attendance is robust.
- Managing exclusion systems, including paperwork, letters, appeals, minutes and where necessary reports to Governors.
- Managing detentions systems, including paperwork, text-outs, spreadsheet and any data analysis as required.
Qualifications & Experience
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- English and Mathematics GCSE or equivalent
- Degree or equivalent
- Knowledge of the school system and procedure
- Knowledge of Microsoft software
- Knowledge of National curriculum
- 3 years’ experience of working in an inner-city school or educational establishment
- Experience in a similar role
Next Steps
If you have any questions about this opportunity, please send us an email, or call to arrange a conversation.
Before applying, please download the Job Pack for full details on the job responsibilities and person specification. This will be helpful for you when completing your application, and throughout the recruitment process.
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we may interview and offer to a candidate before the closing date. Please note that we only accept applications submitted before the closing date via our careers website.
Rewards & Benefits
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan including access to a virtual GP, electric car scheme, 26 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays) for staff who work across the full year, and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.
Safeguarding Notice
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Before applying, please review our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.
Equal Opportunities
The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
As a provider of employment and education, we value the diversity of our staff and students, and all our staff are equally valued and respected. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.
