Admissions and Attendance Officer - Term Time

Bishop Chavasse Primary School , Tonbridge

• Ref:KCC886-2086-87S
• Posted:19/01/2023
• Pay:£20,350 FTE
• Start Date:Immediate
• App Close Date:31/01/2023 at 15:00
• Interviews:w/c 6 Feb 2023

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We are looking for an efficient, organised and enthusiastic person to lead and manage all aspects of admissions and attendance at Bishop Chavasse CofE Primary School. The role is to actively promote the school to maximise admissions using tools and strategies to encourage families in Tonbridge and surrounding areas to make Bishop Chavasse their first choice for primary education.

Admissions

• Lead and manage the admissions strategy and policy to maximise new admissions.
• Collaborate pro-actively with the Early Years team to encourage and maximise new entrant numbers.
• Liaising with outside agencies, undertake publicity activity to encourage Bishop Chavasse to be first choice for Early Years.
• Analyse acceptance choices of places to understand parents’ acceptance criteria of place offers and reasons for non-acceptance.
• Work with the Comms Manager to ensure the website is kept up to date. Be critical and ask yourself “would you come to this school?”
• Manage school tours, devising ways to positively maximise tour impact both now and post Covid.

Attendance

• Work collaboratively with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) by owning and improving attendance policy.
• Set a target attendance goal and have strategies to improve in all years.
• Encourage attendance including timely attendance. Communicate positively daily with parents/carers in respect of non-attendance.
• Take responsibility to trigger ESBAS at agreed attendance level.
• Guide teachers in respect of strategies to improve attendance.
• Provide a specialist service to assist the school in meeting their obligations and targets in relation to school attendance, especially persistent absence.
• Liaise and collaborate with the SLT to devise strategies to manage and improve attendance.
• Liaise with FLO to devise a strategy to work with SENDCO/ families collaboratively to maximise attendance. Meet with school staff, students and parents to identify individual problems and possible solutions. Be the positive face of the school.
• Promote positive attitudes among students and families towards education and ensure that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities.
• Work with the Inclusion team to develop systems to support professional service to support the School in raising attendance, investigating persistent absences and improving punctuality.
• Advise the school on strategies to promote the regular and punctual attendance of all students and assist with the implementation of the strategies.
• Establish the reason for non-attendance, make assessments liaising with SENDCO/DSL and agree a plan for facilitating a return to School using appropriate strategies within specified timescales.
• To acquire and maintain a working knowledge of the statutory framework relating to School attendance, child protection and special needs in order to be able to offer informed advice to parents, School staff, governors and others.

• Work on initiatives which raise the awareness of school staff, parents and the community on the importance of School attendance.
• Research and analyse ‘Best Practice’ from other schools and Ofsted in terms of improving attendance, reporting findings and implementing strategies in discussion with SLT
• Support the SLT in advising the school on all matters relating to attendance and take a lead role in developing work processes to improve school attendance.
• Manage the attendance registers
• Undertake the census for pupils

Information about the school

Bishop Chavasse Church of England Primary School is a two form entry school and a member of the Tenax Schools Trust. We opened in September 2017 and are located in South Tonbridge (postcode area TN11).

Our school provides high quality education for Year R to Year 6 - we reached capacity in September 2023.

Following our full, section 5 Ofsted inspection on 5th and 6th July 2022 we are very pleased that Bishop Chavasse Primary School has been judged as a 'Good' school, providing 'Outstanding' provision for our Early Years children. Our children’s aspirational journey through the school was noted with ‘high expectations reflected in all phases of the school’.

Pupils moved into our brand new, state of the art school building in April 2019. We have:

• Spacious classrooms along two easy to navigate corridors – one for EYFS and Key Stage 1, and one for Key Stage 2;

• Outdoor areas including a designated play and sports areas for EYFS, KS1 and KS2: sports field, trim trails, climbing equipment, outdoor classroom, prayer gardens and a new Forest School area;

• A bright, spacious and well stocked library;

• Quiet learning spaces outside the classrooms for personalised teaching;

• A dedicated room for music lessons;

• A room for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths (STEAM);

• A fully equipped sensory room;

• Play therapist with a dedicated play therapy space;

• Daily Collective Worship where the school comes together to worship and reflect;

• On site kitchen facilities providing a choice of healthy, nutritious lunches every day;

• A variety of after school Enrichment clubs ranging from pottery and gardening to dodgeball and pop lacrosse as well as daily breakfast club.

All pupils, regardless of background, are offered a full and enriching curriculum from the start which enables them to master the knowledge and skills they need to achieve their full educational and personal potential. It is our passion to develop the whole child in a safe, inclusive, Christian environment.

Our Church of England primary school is at the heart of our local community, where staff, parents and children are flourishing through working, learning and playing together. As a Church of England school, Bishop Chavasse is linked with two local churches: St Stephen’s Church and St Peter and St Paul’s and we work closely with the Rochester Diocesan Board of Education to ensure our Christian ethos is theologically rooted and permeates every avenue of our school community, teaching and learning.

Tenax Schools Trust is a dynamic and enterprising organisation which is underpinned by a strong Christian character and ethos and is a formidable local driver of school improvement. Our Trust delivers high standards through a strong belief in an approach that insists that all children and young people can excel irrespective of their starting points. The Trust leads the Kent Teaching School Hub which delivers the Early Career Framework, as well as the NPQ suite of qualifications. Teach Kent and Sussex is our Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ initial teacher training centre, operating from Bennett Memorial Diocesan School. This wider work by the Trust provides a wealth of potential CPD opportunities.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Nicola Stanton
• Address:Bishop Chavasse Church Of England School, 2A Baker Lane, Tonbridge, Kent, TN11 0FB
• Telephone: 01732 676040
• Email: recruitment@bishopchavasseschool.org.uk