Job Title: Attendance Manager
Responsible to: Deputy Headteacher (Attendance, Behaviour, Safeguarding)
Grade (Range) / FTE Annual Salary: NJC Grade 7 (Points 19-25) / £32,061 - £36,363 - Pending 2026 pay award
Actual Salary Range: £29,259 - £33,175 (£16.61 – 18.84 per hour) - Pending 2026 pay award
Weekly Hours: 37 hours
Working Weeks: 41 (Term-time plus 3 weeks)
Paid Weeks per Year: 47.57
Start Date: ASAP
Application Deadline: 9.00am on Friday 12 December 2025
Assessment a& Interview: Thursday 18 December
Application details via school website : https://lancasterhigh.co.uk/job-vacancies/attendance-manager-4
Lancaster High School is part of The Bay Learning Trust, a community of like-minded schools. We are a small and friendly secondary school at the heart of our community.
Lancaster High School is looking for a dedicated permanent Attendance Manager to work with pastoral colleagues, pupils and families to improve whole school attendance. This role will include going off site to visit pupils and will require you to work closely with the Senior Leadership Team to develop a strong whole school culture of positive attendance.
Responsibilities and key tasks
· Work with the Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher on developing and implementing our attendance policy, to develop our culture of excellent school attendance
· Have working knowledge of best practice in improving attendance
· An awareness of government initiatives to improve attendance
· Use ICT systems to identify and coordinate appropriately staged interventions across the school
· Lead on addressing and removing barriers for pupils with chronic poor attendance including being lead professional on Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings where necessary
· Manage the work of the Pastoral Administration Officer to ensure school policies and systems are efficiently and rigorously implemented
· Manage and lead daily home visits to address poor attendance and where appropriate address any safeguarding concerns. Own car and business insurance are essential
· Have oversight of Alternative Provision placements and monitor the attendance of pupils who access Alternative Provision
· Oversee attendance during examination periods, coordinating resources to ensure pupils attend external and internal examinations
· Provide weekly and half termly attendance reports measuring the impact of interventions to the Headteacher, Deputy Headteacher and Pastoral Team
· Create data for SLT and the Local Governing Body
· Lead on celebrating and promoting excellent attendance across the school
· Follow the stages of intervention, monitoring Persistent Absent (PA) pupils and keep the attendance tracking spreadsheets up to date for the whole school
· Attend weekly meetings with the Deputy Headteacher analysing year group data, discussing pupils and concern and planning intervention for pupils requiring attendance support.
· ‘Check and chase’ A.M. registers and P.M. registers each day, record late pupils accurately and monitoring calls/messages for pupils who are absent each day, prioritising those who are vulnerable/disadvantaged
· Make first day absence contact through appropriate communication systems following up communication for non-response/unsatisfactory reasons for absence
· Conduct home visits using own vehicle daily
· Log daily attendance actions
· Monitor register completion and address gaps
· Monitoring of PA pupils against targets and administration of staged letters, attendance panel meetings and Penalty Notices
· Make arrangements to ensure that parents/carers who wish to take their child out of school during term time are contacted and the potential consequences explained. Seek permission/advice from the Headteacher
· Closely monitor the attendance of dual registered pupils
· Ensure that the school’s official registers are in line with legal requirements and that any anomalies are reported to the Deputy Headteacher in first instance, during that working day
· Provide weekly/half termly data on attendance for the Deputy Headteacher
· Ensure stages of intervention are followed rigorously and outcomes recorded both accurately and timely in the intervention register, ready for discussion with the Deputy Headteacher in a timetabled meeting
· Work closely with the parents/carers of targeted pupils, forging positive and constructive relationships in order to engage
· To provide support for pupils to return to school at the earliest opportunity and improve their attendance through the Attendance Strategy
· Keep in weekly contact with red group absentees, accurately recording outcomes of communication in the relevant attendance log
· Liaise with Class Teachers/Head of Department/SLT to ensure that effective reintegration strategies are used, identifying ‘catch up’ needs and work is provided for study at home during the absence where applicable
· Under take regular visits to pupils attending Alternative Provision and who are dual registered
· Contact parents/carers where absences have remained unexplained, despite previous intervention seeking and securing relevant evidence to ‘authorise’ the absence
· Prepare detailed and accurate cases for referral through the EHA process as required
· Prepare detailed and accurate cases for where court action is required.
· Liaise with the Court Officer to initiate proceedings and follow identified protocol
· Attend training that is identified as essential professional development
· Act as a safeguarding officer reporting any concerns immediately to the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) or Deputy DSL
· Attend Year Team and / or DSL meetings as appropriate.
If you like to apply to the Attendance Manager position, please complete the Bay Learning Trust Support Staff Application form available at https://lancasterhigh.co.uk/job-vacancies/attendance-manager-4 and email it to [email protected] along a cover letter addressed to the Headteacher explaining how your experience and skills make you a suitable candidate.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £32,061.00-£36,363.00 per year
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
