Attendance Officer

Permanent, Part time, Term Time Only

Job Share: The appointed candidate will need to work Thursday and Friday

15 hours per week

Grade 4 (SCP 5 – 6)

(Actual Pro Rata Salary £6,588 - £6,719)

Required from January 2020

We are seeking to appoint a friendly, professional, dynamic colleague to join our team as part-time Attendance Officer.  This is an important role in our school, involving contact with home and other outside agencies.  It requires a keen eye for detail and a thorough approach to following up issues regarding absent children.   The successful candidate will have had experience of working in a busy office; they will have good degrees of verbal and written literacy; they will be capable of staying calm and professional at all times.

At Sir Graham Balfour we offer:
 

• A very friendly, well-motivated staff, who embrace willingly a culture of professional development.
• A highly supportive staff team and Leadership Group.
• An ever growing reputation in the local community which has resulted in the school being consistently oversubscribed over many years.
• A very positive climate for learning.
• A first rate learning environment. We are housed in buildings completed in 2002 and financed via a PFI initiative.
• Innovative 14-19 collaboration and an increasing roll at KS5.
• A commitment to inclusive practice.

Please note:
 

• The school is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all students and as such all applicants will be submitted for an enhanced DBS check.
• Applications can only be accepted if submitted on the enclosed formal application form.
• Two references will be required, one of which must be from your most recent employer.
• We confirm our commitment to equality of opportunity in all areas of our work. All individuals will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation.

Visits to the school are strongly recommended and can be arranged by contacting Mrs Vicki McKeen (details below).

Further details including the application form are available from the school website: www.sirgrahambalfour.co.uk, www.jobsonline.stoke.gov.uk  and www.wmjobs.co.uk websites.   For an application pack, please access our website, www.sirgrahambalfour.co.uk or contact Mrs Vicki McKeen, Headteacher’s PA, on vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk or telephone 01785 223490.

The closing date for applications is:  11.00 am on Friday 29^th November 2019.  Please return completed applications to vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk

Shortlisting for this post will take place Monday 2^nd December 2019 and successful applicants will be contacted no later than 3.20pm on the same day.  If you have not heard from us by this time, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion. 

Interviews will take place w/c Monday 2^nd December 2019; will include a tour around the school, discussion with the Office staff, in-tray exercises and interviews for the short-listed candidates.