School Administration Assistant: Attendance Full Time NEW

We are seeking an experienced and proactive School Administration Assistant for Attendance with a strong focus on improving pupil attendance and engagement. The successful candidate will play central role in promoting excellent attendance across the school, working closely with pupils, families and staff to reduce absence and remove barriers to learning.

You will be responsible for monitoring, analysing, and responding to attendance data, managing your own caseload, and implementing effective strategies to improve outcomes for pupils. Working in partnership with the Headteacher, Head of Year, and external agencies, you will help to strengthen links between home, school, the wider community, and the local authority.

You will build positive, supportive relationships with pupils and their families, challenging poor attendance where necessary while offering practical guidance and pastoral support. Your work will directly contribute to improving attitudes towards attendance, raising aspirations, and ensuring pupils are able to access their education fully.

The role requires the delivery of high-quality, targeted pastoral support and intervention to promote high expectations and sustained improvements in attendance and punctuality.

Secondary School Experience Preferred But Not Essential.

In return, we can offer you:

• A caring and happy community that always puts our young people first
• A supportive environment that takes an active interest in your professional development and personal wellbeing.
• A highly supportive Senior Leadership Team
• Access to a wide range of CPD courses
• Use of a work laptop
• Access to the local government pension scheme
• 24 hours access to the Employee Assistance Programme
• A strong and supportive Governing Body
• A well-equipped staffroom
• Free on-site car parking
• Cycle to work scheme
• Birmingham City Council reward scheme

Located in the heart of the Hodge Hill community, we are a small secondary girl’s school with strong community values. We know and care for every pupil as an individual. We strive to meet the needs of each member of our school community, celebrating diversity and always striving for equality in our school family and the wider world.

Our ethos encourages mutual respect and support to enable every pupil to make the greatest personal, social, and academic progress during their time with us, preparing them for successful careers and fulfilling lives. A relentless drive for the best academic progress for each individual pupil, sits comfortably alongside the wider curriculum where values education embraces citizenship, pupil voice, charity, and community work.

Here at Hodge Hill Girls’ School, we genuinely value and strive to enhance working partnerships with our families, feeder schools and our local community. This partnership is essential in raising standards and achievement, every member of our family has a role to play in raising the aspirations of all our pupils to ensure we really are “Educating tomorrow’s women today”.

Please note that we do not accept CVs; applications must be submitted using the application form.

Application forms are available from our school website.

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

Safer Recruitment

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable): qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.

Safeguarding is our top priority. We encourage all applicants to review our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy, which outlines our commitment to the safety and wellbeing of students.

References

All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

Short-listed candidates

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

Rehabilitation of Offenders

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2000. 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.

We encourage visits from prospective candidates to meet members of our school community and experience our school at first hand. If you would like to arrange a visit, please contact Mrs N. Panton via email: HR@hodgehgs.bham.sch.uk