School Attendance Officer
CAPTION: Job details
* Posting date: 10 September 2025
* Hours: Full time
* Closing date: 22 September 2025
* Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4SF
* Company: Teaching Vacancies
* Job type: Permanent
* Job reference: eaf81ee6-e982-4f89-b213-4a66172364c6
Overview
Responsibilities and qualifications
* Experience of working in a school environment;
* Experience of working in a school attendance related role;
* Experience of using CMIS or SIMS software;
* Ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of audiences, verbally and in writing;
* Excellent time management and organisational skills;
* Ability to use standard ICT packages including Microsoft Office and in particular Excel;
* Resilience and an ability to work in difficult situations, including dealing with conflict;
* Ability to build effective working relationships with all stakeholders, including professionals, students and parents;
* Ability to remain professional at all times;
* Work effectively alone or within a group;
* Ability to relate to students in a pleasant and sympathetic manner and to recognise potential child safeguarding issues.
What the school offers its staff
Outwood Grange Academies Trust supports colleagues by funding an extensive range of accredited training courses and apprenticeship opportunities up to Masters level. We also offer:
* Your starting salary with annual increments plus inflation linked increases. The starting salary within the grade advertised will be dependent upon your experience. You will also receive:
* A comprehensive induction and training process
* Automatic enrolment into an increasingly rare and valuable defined Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution rates
* Flexible family friendly policies from day one
* Enhanced occupational benefits available (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave) with no qualifying period
* Holidays: A minimum of 25 days plus bank holidays (this increases with length of service)
* A range of working patterns are available dependant upon the role
Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme which gives you and your family members free access to:
* Specialist information on a wide range of work-life issues
* Emotional support and counselling for a wide range of personal and work issues
* Legal guidance
* Financial guidance and debt counselling
* Child and dependent care support and advice
* Support for managers
We are also a wellbeing employer with a dedicated wellbeing strategy and menopause policy along with menopause champions based in our academies. Other benefits include:
* Free flu vaccinations
* Free onsite parking
* Employee discounts such as competitively priced Synergy Car Leasing
* Access to various discount sites
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), medical, online and social media prohibition from teaching, right to work, satisfactory references, suitability to work with children. You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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