Family Support Liaison Officer - Attendance

We are looking for a Family Support

Liaison Officer - Attendance. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated and committed

individual to join our Attendance and Student Welfare Team to enable us to support and improve student attendance.

At Henley Bank

High School, our aspiration is for all our staff and students to leave our

school with practical wisdom gained through the teaching of intellectual,

moral, civic and performance virtues.

We are a successful secondary school

based in Brockworth, extremely close to junction 11a of the M5. The school has

consistently been achieving excellent academic results over the past few years

with the GCSE results of 2023 being in the top 1% of results in the country, as

well as the highest results for any non-selective school in Gloucestershire. We

opened our Sixth Form in September 2024 and are really excited to see what the

next stage in the school’s journey will be. A crucial element of the school’s

vision is ensuing that we are preparing our young people for the world of

tomorrow. This role plays an essential part in achieving this.

Greenshaw Learning

Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent

quality, comprehensive and inclusive education through primary schools and

secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire,

Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have

three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are

building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual

support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining

and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at

every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one

another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.

To get a feel of life at Greenshaw

Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment

brochure on our job’s portal.

Job Purpose

The

Family Support and Liaison Officer - Attendance will work alongside key members of school, staff, young people,

families and other agencies to support and improve student attendance

Main

responsibilities:

To work with the Attendance Officer and other relevant

staff on improving whole school attendance to consistently be in excess of 95%. To

work with families and groups of families where attendance is a concern Run

events in school for families who children have poor attendance Arrange

and undertake home visits, implementing strategies to improve their attendance Hold

regular meetings with the attendance, pastoral, safeguarding, SEND and

behaviour teams to

discuss

students' barriers, and support that can be offered

Hold

Attendance Action Plan & attendance support plan meetings with parents and

set targets for