Medway Hub Maritime Attendance Officer - Part-time

Barnsole Primary School, Gillingham

• Ref:MED887-2396-115S
• Posted:18/06/2025
• Pay:Medway C1 £17562.85 - £21666.41 (Actual)
• Start Date:28th August 2025
• App Close Date:18/07/2025 at 14:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Exciting New Opportunity as our Medway Hub Maritime Attendance Officer

Hours: 30 hours per week, over 4 days Location: Across the Medway Hub (Barnsole, Bligh, Danecourt, Featherby Infants & Featherby Juniors)

Are you passionate about supporting children and families to overcome barriers to school attendance?  Do you have the drive, empathy, and professionalism to make a real difference across a group of inclusive and ambitious schools? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

Maritime Academy Trust is seeking a dedicated Attendance Officer to work across our Medway Hub of schools: Barnsole, Bligh, Danecourt, Featherby Infants and Featherby Juniors. This is a unique opportunity to take on a role spanning schools in supporting schools to improve attendance outcomes, safeguard pupils, and work in partnership with families and external agencies.

About the Role

You will play a key part in promoting excellent attendance across our schools. Working closely with Headteachers, Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs), and other key staff, you will help identify patterns of absence, put targeted interventions in place, and engage directly with families to address barriers.

This is a varied and rewarding role involving school-based monitoring, formal correspondence, home visits, multi-agency working, and attendance at legal proceedings. You will also contribute to safeguarding meetings and provide strategic insight to leaders on how to improve attendance in line with national expectations.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Experienced in education or child welfare, with a strong understanding of attendance and safeguarding
• Professional and proactive, able to manage sensitive situations with empathy and confidence
• A great communicator, both written and verbal
• Comfortable working across multiple sites and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders
• Confident with data, systems, and report writing
• A qualified DSL (or willing to train)
• A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential for this role.

What We Offer

At Maritime, we do things differently. We are a Trust with a friendly, collaborative culture, and a commitment to helping all children succeed. When you join us, you’ll be part of a supportive team where your contribution is valued and your career development is taken seriously.

As a Maritime employee, you will benefit from:

• A flexible and supportive working environment
• Tailored induction and training programmes
• Opportunities for cross-Hub and Trust-wide collaboration
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Membership of a forward-thinking and values-driven trust

Find Out More and Apply

For more information or to arrange an informal chat, please contact Helen Rixon at office@barnsole-maritime.org, 

Maritime Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and satisfactory references.

Information about the school

Barnsole Primary School is part of the Maritime Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools based in Greenwich, Bexley, Kent and Medway. Our academies have transformed through targeted collaboration, innovative ideas and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with leadership and life skills.

Barnsole Primary is an outstanding three-form community primary school situated in Medway with a thriving school nursery on site.

We are committed to providing a safe, secure and stimulating learning environment where each one of our pupils can achieve their potential and flourish academically and socially. We have exceptionally high expectations of all our pupils and endeavour to nurture their self-confidence and self-esteem so that they can be the best they can be.

Relationships with parents and our wider community is something we put right at the top of our agenda. If you would like to visit please do not hesitate to contact us and we also actively encourage feedback so if you feel there is something we can do better please let us know.

Our recent successful Ofsted Inspection in February 2024 graded Barnsole as ‘Good’ which is a recognition of the all the hard work and commitment shown by the children, staff and wider community. Ofsted commented, ‘The school is a calm and orderly environment. Staff have high expectations and pupils behave well. The school aims for pupils to be resilient and have a lifelong curiosity about the world. There are high expectations for all pupils to do well.’

We look forward to meeting with you.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Maritime Academy Trust
• Address:50 John Harrison Way, Greenwich, London, SE10 0BG
• Telephone: 020 8858 0394
• Email: recruitment@maritimeacademytrust.org