Are you passionate about making a difference? Do you possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills? Do you want to be part of a happy, strong, committed and aspirational team? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as an Attendance and Pastoral Support Officer. This role is central to ensuring that young people, especially those facing attendance challenges, receive the best possible education and support to reach their full potential. This role will involve offering support to the school in relation to the attendance and pastoral welfare of pupils, to improve attendance and parental engagement. This will include liaising with families, carrying out home visits, organising and delivering drop-in sessions for parents and carers and building a relationship with pupils and parents/carers to ensure that attendance is optimised. We therefore require someone with excellent people skills, coupled with a calm but firm manner, to enable effective relationships to be forged with our children and their families, collaborating with them in school and off-site. The successful candidate should be self-motivated and well organised; able to work under pressure and have a high level of personal drive to identify and break down any barriers impacting pupil attendance. A willingness and desire to help raise aspirations, despite sometimes challenging behaviour and a lack of engagement is also essential. You should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the importance of safeguarding procedures in education and have excellent literacy and numeracy skills, alongside a competency in ICT (familiarity with school ICT systems would be desirable) The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post. Required to start as soon as possible. Application details are attached to this advertisement, and can be returned via westcornforth@durhamlearning.net or by post to the address below. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Any offer of employment will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory DBS Enhanced Disclosure. This post is not open to job share. This position is paid whole time with retainer adjustments applied to periods of school closure. You will not be required to work during the school closure periods however your salary in these periods will be adjusted accordingly in line with the retainer regulations as specified in the National Joint Council (NJC) Green Book agreement. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and, if successful, you will need to apply for an enhanced DBS disclosure. As a disability confident employer, we are committed to employing disabled people and people with health conditions making reasonable adjustments to support disabled applicants when required. Closing date for applications is 1st June 2026. Interview date: 9th June 2026 West Cornforth Primary School High Street, West Cornforth, Co Durham Tel: 01740654315 Email: westcornforth@durhamlearning.net VPRS/161