Attendance Officer & Personal Coach

Start date: 1 January 2025

Hours per week: 37 Monday to Friday 8.00am to 4.00pm, Term time only

EBN Academy Yardley
1580 Coventry Road
South Yardley
Birmingham
B26 1AL
Telephone number: 0121 272 7020

Contact email: ldonohoe@ebnfs.org

Contract type: Permanent  

EBN Academy is an Alternative Provision Free School in Birmingham. The Academy serves students between the ages of 13-16 years for whom mainstream school has not met their individual needs. Students are referred to the Academy for a wide range of reasons including disengagement from mainstream education, additional needs not being met fully by mainstream school, a lack of suitable places in a local area and issues around peer relationships and attendance. EBN Academy ’s ambition for every young person is to help them achieve the best possible academic, personal/social and aspirational outcomes possible. We are committed to inclusion, the removal of barriers to progress and the highest standards in teaching and learning.

The EBN Academy Trust is part of the East Birmingham Partnership of Secondary Schools and Academies. This group collaborates on a range of and pupil support areas including behaviour and attendance and post-16 provision. EBN Academy has students places commissioned from a wide range of secondary schools across Birmingham and Solihull with a number of places also commissioned from further afield.

We are seeking to appoint a meticulous Attendance Office & Personal Coach to assist the school in meeting their obligations in relation to attendance. Alongside taking on the normal personal coaching role within the Academy, the successful applicant will establish and develop a specialist service within the wider pastoral team and advise on all matters relating to attendance and where necessary take a lead role in developing work processes to improve the reporting of school attendance. The role will include updating school records, analysing attendance data and providing reports to senior managers and other professionals, disseminating information, both internally and externally in a timely fashion. Working in a very busy environment, you will need to be flexible and able to work under pressure, with excellent interpersonal skills. Priorities include tracking, monitoring and challenging student attendance in collaboration with colleagues from within the school and our partner agencies.

The successful applicant should be energetic, enthusiastic, self-motivated, exceptionally well organised, be able to work under pressure and have a high level of personal drive together with relevant experience.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates, with a real commitment to working with young people in a school setting and striving to make a real difference to their life chances, to join a team of skilled professionals.

Job Role – key elements:

• supporting and mentoring student in relation to improving attendance
• developing rapport with staff and students
• providing academic and pastoral support in the role of personal coach
• taking part in whole school activities
• providing learning support to the pupils that need it most
• promoting the pupils’ educational, emotional, and social development
• leading activities to promote pupil engagement
• employing and adapting various teaching strategies to suit the needs of the children

Ideally, you will:

• have experience working with challenging behaviour
• be dedicated to making a difference to young people
• have experience with the Key Stage 3 & 4 curriculum
• be able to support young people to make the rights choices

We will offer you

• a friendly and supportive team
• local government pension scheme
• employee assistance programme
• cycle to work scheme
• voluntary private health care plans
• a Chance to make a difference to young people in the East Birmingham area and beyond

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role”

EBN Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all Staff to share this commitment. 

How to apply

The application pack can be downloaded from our website or here.
All applications to be returned to ldonohoe@ebnfs.org

For further information please contact:
Laura Donohoe
Tel: 0121 272 7032. Email: ldonohoe@ebnfs.org

We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion. Only applications submitted on an application form will be considered. We do not accept CV’s only.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. 

Applicants please note: This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment. Please use the contact details in the advert for information on actual employment conditions.

Rehabilitation of offenders: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.