Attendance & Welfare Officer
Uffculme School
• 37 hours per week, permanent position
• Hours of work 8.00am – 4.00pm, 5 days a week, half an hour unpaid lunchbreak
• Term time plus 3 INSET days (38 weeks and 3 days per year)
• £31,525 - £34,811 FTE; actual salary £25,719 - £29,504 (NJC points 16-22)
Start date: January 2027
At Uffculme School attendance is everything. We are acutely aware of the impact that lower attendance can have on the success, outcomes, engagement and mental health and wellbeing of young people and we are committed to ensuring that we work to raise attendance for every pupil.
We are looking to recruit an individual who is relentless in the pursuit of increasing attendance for every student and who is able to work skilfully with staff, young people and their families to support improving attendance. You will be an individual who has a keen eye for detail and is able to work in a thorough way to ensure the attendance and safety of our young people.
In return we can offer you
• Eligibility to join excellent Local Government pension scheme
• Access to a range of continuous professional development opportunities
• Access to staff wellbeing provision
• Free car parking.
• Discounted membership at our on-site gym
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free tea and coffee.
If this sounds like the sort of school you would like to be a part of, then please visit Careers at Uffculme School - Cullompton, United Kingdom, EX15 3AG | eteach to find out more.
Closing date: 9.30am Monday 16th November
Interviews to be held in the week of 23rd November. Please note that interviews will be held during the school day and cannot be rearranged
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 under the Exceptions Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020). This means that both spent and unspent convictions and cautions may need to be disclosed. However, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ under filtering rules and do not need to be disclosed. Guidance on what should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.
Blackdown Education Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexuality or religion.
The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS). As part of our due diligence process when shortlisting, we may carry out an online search of publicly available material to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore with the applicant at interview.
References: References will be taken up on short-listed candidates that will include questions about past disciplinary actions or allegations in relation to behaviour with children, previous employers may be approached for information to verify particular experiences or qualifications before interview.
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