Attendance and Welfare Officer – East London

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Attendance and Welfare Officer – East London

Are you a passionate, dedicated Attendance and Welfare Officer looking for your next role? 4Recruitment Services are recruiting an Attendance and Welfare Officer to join a team based in Wapping. 

Umbrella Rate: £14 – £16 per hour 

Duration: Ongoing

Hours: Monday to Friday, 35 hrs/week

Attendance and Welfare Officer role: Full JD Available

• Responsible for monitoring and increasing whole-school attendance, maintaining and promoting school safeguarding practices and building relationships with vulnerable students and their families
• Ensure the students are present and supported in a way that means they can access learning
• Positively promote good attendance through interactions with students, preparing notices such as whole-school displays, letters to parents, awarding certificates
• Contact parents and carers of absent students on a daily basis, ensuring unexplained absences are accounted for and monitored using SIMS
• Advise parents about benefits and help they are entitles to for example free school meals, clothing grants and assistance with transport costs
• Be proactive in spotting patterns of unexplained student absences
• Challenge low pupil attendance in order to promote a culture of positive attendance and punctuality
• Monitor the attendance of vulnerable groups of students and liaise with relevant staff
• Undertake home visits to students and parents as designated by the school to encourage improved attendance and establish action plans
• Liaise with the safeguarding team regarding child protection issues that may arise in the course of attendance-related queries
• Court action and fixed penalty notice referral
• Uphold the schools attendance policy and send out letters as requested, maintaining records of communications with parents on file
• Undertake attendance inspection and whole school audits as requiredMaintain absolute confidentiality in all school-related matters and prevent disclosure of information on sensitive personal issues
• Maintain records and produce reports as necessary, including tracking documents
• Produce termly reports on attendance for the Headteacher’s report to governors
• Weekly meetings with the pastoral lead and other relevant staff

Essential Requirements

• Experience of working with students and young people in a school environment, preferably at key stages 3 and 4
• Have the experience of improving students with poor attendance#
• Experience of dealing with student behaviour
• Excellent and empathetic communicator with students, parents/carers and staff
• Understanding of safeguarding procedures
• Good general level of education including 5 GCSE’s graded A* – C (including English and Maths)
• Knowledge of SIMS and excellent IT skills
• You Must Have Right to Live & Work in the UK
• Enhanced Child DBS registered to the update service

We also offer an outstanding referral scheme for any Attendance and Welfare Officer friends or colleagues.

If you are an Attendance and Welfare Officer and would like to express your interest, please contact us for this great opportunity by calling on  and speak to Sammy Davis Or email on,   

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer.

Location: Wapping, Greater London