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Attendance Officer - Full-time

Rainham Mark Grammar School, Gillingham

  • Ref:MED887-5420-282S
  • Posted:07/12/2023
  • Pay:NJC scale C1 point 6 - 19 £20,551 - £25,613 actual
  • Start Date:January 2024
  • App Close Date:15/12/2023 at 12:00
  • Interviews:TBC

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ATTENDANCE OFFICER 

Salary:  NJC scale C1 point 6 - 19 £23,893 - £29,777 FTE (£20,551 - £25,613 actual)  

Hours: 37 hours per week, Term Time plus Staff Development Days (39 weeks per year) 

Location: Rainham Mark Grammar School 

Required: ASAP 

We are seeking to appoint an Attendance Officer to join us at Rainham Mark Grammar School.  You will monitor and report on whole school attendance data, analysing data to identify key areas of concern. You will work closely with pupils, staff, parents and carers to reduce levels of absence and act appropriately when persistent absence becomes a safeguarding issue. 

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Ensure daily attendance registers are accurate and complete, and follow up on any incomplete data 
  • Follow up on any unexplained absences with parents/carers, escalating issues as appropriate in line with school procedures 
  • Initiate and oversee the administration of absence procedures 
  • Maintain accurate records of communications with parents/carers and relevant interventions 
  • Build and refresh knowledge of the school’s MIS and other relevant systems 

Requirements: 

  • Experience of working with secondary aged children 
  • Experience of identifying interventions to raise attendance of pupils 
  • Good listening skills 
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal 
  • GCSEs in English and Maths or equivalent 
  • Good time management skills 

What RMGS can offer you?  

  •    Excellent professional development opportunities 
  •    Free Health Care provision and gym facilities available 

Rainham Mark Grammar School provides an enriching co-educational experience where students are nurtured to develop their leadership skills and creativity. We are a school for every academically able young person regardless of social-economic background, ethnicity, or gender, with additional support and bursaries where they are needed. Our success is based on our high expectations. Our students and staff are motivated; they inspire and challenge each other to be the best version of themselves. We believe our students are simply the best of their generation, it is a privilege to work with them. Rainham Mark Grammar School is a happy place to learn and to grow, we encourage you to visit and experience our community.   

If you would like to be considered for the post, please submit a Support Staff application form, which is available on the school website www.rmet.org/vacancies.  Once completed please send via email to recruitment@rmet.org.  

Closing date:  Friday 15th December 2023 at 12.00pm.  

Interview date: TBC  

This vacancy will close on or before the specified closing date depending on the volume of suitable applicants. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of the closing date, please assume that you have not been short listed on this occasion. We wish to stress that no discourtesy is intended in following such a procedure, and you should not let this deter you from future applications.   

Information about the school

Rainham Mark Grammar School provides an enriching co-educational experience where students are nurtured to develop their leadership skills and creativity. We are a school for every academically able young person regardless of social-economic background, ethnicity, or gender, with additional support and bursaries where they are needed. Our success is based on our high expectations. Our students and staff are motivated; they inspire and challenge each other to be the best version of themselves. We believe our students are simply the best of their generation, it is a privilege to work with them. Rainham Mark Grammar School is a happy place to learn and to grow, we encourage you to visit and experience our community.

Our school was judged “Good” by Ofsted in 2022 but we are firmly of the belief that we have the potential to be exceptional. There is much to achieve in an ever-changing education landscape.

Rainham Mark Education Trust is a family of three Academies in Medway, compromising of Rainham Mark Grammar School - Ofsted ‘Good’ May 2022, Riverside Primary School and Nursery - Ofsted ‘Good’ November 2019 and Twydall Primary School and Nursery - Ofsted ‘Good’ May 2023.

The core purpose of the Trust is to cultivate wisdom, character and strength in students so they can understand, celebrate and shape the world in which they live.

Together, our ambitions for the children in our local community continue to build on current success, and raise the bar further, such that the life chances of each child in our care are maximised through a deeply inclusive education, routinely high expectations, and a range of opportunities that seek to embed a love of learning.

Rainham Mark Education Trust (RMET) is in a very exciting stage of its development, having recently realigned and strengthened our central team, relaunched our vision and established an ambitious future strategy.

The benefits of working for us include:

  • Support from a network of senior leaders and teachers within the school and our Trust

  • Regular planned opportunities to collaborate and share best practice within the Trust

  • Working with a team of friendly, dedicated and hardworking staff and Trustees

  • An outstanding offer of CPD opportunities

  • A sharp focus on staff well-being including Health Care provision

Rainham Mark Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We implement a robust recruitment process across the Trust that aligns with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidelines. The recruitment process involves conducting online checks on shortlisted candidates and all employment offers are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Scheme, medical, confirmation of qualifications, experience checks and satisfactory references.

Our Trust upholds equality, inclusion and diversity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to nurturing a supportive work environment where each individual is respected, appreciated and welcomed. We also support applications for flexible work arrangements.

After the closing date for this post a panel will conduct the shortlisting process. You will be selected for interview based entirely on the contents of your application form. It is therefore important that you fully read the Job Description and Person Specification prior to completing your form. After the shortlisting process has been completed candidates who have been selected for interview will be informed and provided with full details of the interview programme. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date for this post, you have, on this occasion, unfortunately been unsuccessful.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.