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Job overview

To provide a specialist service to help the Academy to raise achievement by improving academy attendance and punctuality and to meet our attendance targets.

To play an integral role in the promotion of positive attitudes by students and their families towards education and ensuring that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities, particularly where there is persistent absence, and to support them in removing barriers to attendance.

Make unsupervised home visits and attend meetings both at school and off site.

Key responsibilities

• Meet with academy staff, and individual students and their parents to establish and challenge the reasons for non-attendance/poor punctuality and agree a plan in line with the Academy Attendance Case Management process, with appropriate strategies and timescales to tackle the issues.
• Make and maintain contact with individual students and their families in response to allocated referrals through home visits and/or meetings in the Academy.
• Regularly meet with and closely liaise with Heads of Years on individual cases of concerning attendance, advising on all matters relating to attendance and where necessary take a supportive role in developing work processes to improve school attendance.
• Update academy records, analyse attendance data and provide regular reports to senior leaders. Disseminate this information, both internally and externally, in a timely fashion. 
• Liaise with the Pupil Inclusion and Attendance Service at Kent County Council. Prepare the appropriate documents and referrals and present information as required to enable the Academy to meet its attendance obligations and statutory safeguarding responsibilities. This will include requesting penalty fine notices, requesting supportive or statutory intervention from the Local Authority and, if appropriate, the completion of referrals to external agencies, such as Social Care.
• Be fully aware of and carry out all work in line with Safeguarding Procedures – ‘Working Together to Keep Children Safe in Education’ and the DfE’s most recent guidance of ‘Working Together to Improve School Attendance’.
• Manage own workload in line with the Academy’s priorities.
• Work on initiatives which raise the awareness of the whole Academy community on the importance of excellent school attendance.
• To work alongside our Admissions Lead and Head of Year 7 to help manage the admissions to the Academy for Year 7.
• First Aid trained or willingness to be First Aid trained

We also offer:

• An exciting and vibrant place of work

• Gym facilities

• Local Authority reward scheme

• High quality continued professional development

• A valuable pension package

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The Skinners’ Kent Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.

We reserve the right to make an appointment before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.