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Job Title: Attendance Link Worker
Salary: £35,852 - £39,649 (CLF Grade E) Based on Full Time hours, All year round.
Actual Starting Salary: £18,668 - £20,646 (Based on Term Time only plus inset days)
Hours: 22.5 hours per week
Contract: Fixed Term Contract
Contract Length: Fixed until 31/08/2027
Additional Information: This is a part-time role of 22.5 hours per week, currently structured across three working days: Monday: 7.5 hours, Wednesday: 7.5 hours, Friday: 7.5 hours. There is flexibility around the working pattern to support the appointment of the right candidate.
Provisional Start date: September 2026
Do you believe that improving attendance can transform a young person’s future and open the door to lifelong opportunities?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Attendance Link Worker at Kings Oak Academy. We are seeking a compassionate and driven individual with a strong understanding of the barriers that can impact school attendance, and a commitment to working alongside students and their families to overcome them.
As an Attendance Link Worker, you will play a vital role in building trusting, productive relationships with students, parents and carers. You will act as an advocate for families, ensuring their voices are heard and that they are able to access the support they need, whether within the academy or through external services. Through your work, you will help ensure every young person can access the education they are entitled to and are supported to engage fully in school life.
Working collaboratively with pastoral teams, external agencies and the wider community, you will develop and implement targeted, solution-focused strategies to remove barriers to attendance. You will take a proactive approach, identifying needs early, supporting families through challenges, and helping to make the academy as inclusive, accessible and supportive as possible.
You will also empower parents and carers by providing clear information, practical guidance and opportunities to engage with the academy, enabling them to play an active role in their child’s education and attendance journey.
About you
You will bring:
1. A strong understanding of the wide range of challenges that can affect young people and their families, particularly within disadvantaged communities, alongside a commitment to ongoing professional learning
2. Experience of working with young people and families within education, youth work, social care, health or a related field, with a proven ability to build and sustain effective relationships
3. The ability to identify barriers to attendance and learning, and to implement clear, targeted action plans to address them using a solution-focused approach
4. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the confidence to engage sensitively in challenging conversations and work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders
5. Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities, maintain accurate records and monitor the impact of interventions
6. A relevant professional qualification (or equivalent experience) and good literacy and numeracy skills (GCSE Maths and English or equivalent)
7. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle to support home visits and community-based work
Applicants are advised to refer to the full requirements of the role in the attached job description and person specification, prior to submitting an application.
About Kings Oak Academy:
King’s Oak Academy is situated in the heart of the South Gloucestershire community and is within easy commuting distance of Bristol and Bath. The academy has been part of the Cabot Learning Federation since 2011 and enjoys the benefits from being part of a mature, successful multi-academy trust offering access to high-quality professional services and opportunities to work collaboratively with experienced colleagues across the trust.
As an all-through school, King's Oak is in a privileged position to educate children aged 4-16 and support their families over time. The academy's staff structure and estates are organised into three phases (Lower School: Reception to Year 4; Middle School: Years 5-8; Upper School: Years 9-11). This structure ensures that learning is high quality and responsive to pupils' development needs, long-term relationships are fostered with families and colleagues benefit from distinctive professional development and leadership opportunities that come from working in an all-through community school.
King’s Oak was inspected in June 2025 and secured an ‘Outstanding’ judgement in both Leadership and Management and Personal Development. Inspectors noted that “pupils thrive at King’s Oak Academy. The school expects them to ‘work hard, be kind’, and pupils strive to do this. There are high expectations of what pupils can achieve academically and of who they can become.” King’s Oak Academy is therefore an ambitious, values-led community in which staff are trusted, developed and supported to do their best work and where colleagues who share our commitment to high expectations, kindness and inclusive excellence can build a rewarding and sustained career.
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 are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters and so encourage applications from underrepresented and global majority groups including ethnicity, 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:
8. Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
9. Generous annual leave.
10. A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
11. Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
12. Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
13. A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
14. Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!
Recruitment timeline:
Closing Date: 14 June 2026 @11.59pm
Shortlisting: 15 June 2026
Interviews: 26 June 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.
Safeguarding Statement
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.