Attendance Officer – Southampton | High-Performing Secondary School
📍 Location: Southampton
📅 Start: ASAP
💼 Contract: Permanent
⏰ Hours: Full-time, Monday–Friday, 8:00am–4:00pm
💷 Salary: £28,000–£34,000
⚠️ Previous School Experience Essential
A high-performing secondary school in Southampton is seeking an experienced Attendance Officer to join its pastoral and safeguarding team.
Previous experience working within a school is essential, ideally in attendance, pastoral administration or a similar pupil-facing role.
You'll monitor attendance closely, identify concerns early and work with students, families and staff to improve attendance and punctuality.
Your Responsibilities
Monitoring daily attendance and punctuality
Following up unexplained and persistent absence
Contacting parents and carers
Identifying attendance patterns
Maintaining accurate attendance records
Producing attendance reports
Supporting attendance interventions
Working alongside pastoral and safeguarding teams
Liaising with external agencies where required
Supporting attendance meetings and reviews
About You
You should be organised, confident communicating with families and comfortable handling sensitive information.
Experience using SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom or another school MIS would be highly advantageous.
⭐ High-performing secondary school
📅 ASAP start
💼 Permanent
⏰ Full-time, 8am–4pm
💷 £28,000–£34,000
If you are shortlisted, you will be contacted within 72 hours.
- Location
- Southampton, Hampshire
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