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Attendance Liaison Officer
September 2022
Essex PayScale 7 pt. 17-24
£25,927- £29,174 plus inner Fringe
Full Time Term time only
We are looking to appoint a highly experienced, committed Attendance Liaison Officer. You will engage with families to assess the reasons impacting on the attendance of individual students, ensuring that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities. You will also require an understanding of the laws surrounding attendance and compliance.
The successful candidate will be someone who has an in-depth knowledge of attendance and the ability to work on their own initiative, have good organisational skills and work well under pressure. You will need excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be able to deal firmly and authoritatively with parents/carers. The role will require the candidate to promote a positive attendance and punctuality culture. You will be able to create and use data to identify patterns of absence of individual students and ensure this information is available to staff. You will provide direct support for parents/carers of students with attendance issues. You will be required to follow-up on students' absences in order to improve attendance, communicate effectively and build relationships with families, staff and outside agencies.
Experience of working with families and home visits would be an advantage. The successful applicant will hold a valid driving licence to carry out home visits. .
For further information or an application form please email donna.james@debden-tkat.org or call 02084181202.
Closing Date: Sunday 27th August 2022
Information about the School
Debden Park High School is a heavily oversubscribed Academy that constantly achieves outstanding outcomes for its students.
Last year’s GCSE results put us in the top 10 most successful non-selective successful schools in Essex, and our growing Sixth Form – first opened in 2015 – achieved a 100% pass rate in our first set of A-Level results.
As a National Teaching School, we lead a family of schools as part of the Kemnal Academies Trust, providing exceptional career progression and bespoke CPD experiences for our staff, which has led to our middle and senior leadership teams being composed of many teachers who began their career with us.