Attendance and Engagement Officer, Leeds

Job Title: Attendance and Engagement Officer Salary: Commencing at 26,195 with progression to 26,855 pro rata, per annumClosing Date: About the Role

37 Hours per week

Reduced Year - 40 weeks

Leeds City College are recruiting for a Attendance and Engagement Officer for the Future Pathways team. This is a specialist department that supports young people with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and other high-needs learners, typically aged between 16 to 24 years old. Our main goal is to help students develop the skills, confidence, qualifications, and work experience needed to move into further education, training, or employment.

* Actual annual salary for 37 hours per week over 40 weeks is commencing at 24,515 with progression to 25,133

What You Will Do

• Monitor and analyse departmental attendance daily, ensuring registers are completed accurately and on time.
• Build positive relationships with students, parents/carers, and external agencies through meetings, home visits, and ongoing communication to improve attendance and engagement.
• Provide pastoral support to students on an individual and group basis, helping to identify and overcome barriers to learning and achievement.
• Work closely with safeguarding, pastoral, and teaching staff to support students with attendance, welfare, and safeguarding concerns, liaising with relevant external professionals when required.

About You

• English and Maths at Level 2, with relevant qualifications (or willingness to undertake training) to support disengaged and disadvantaged young people.
• Mentoring, Teaching Assistant and/or safeguarding qualifications, or a commitment to work towards obtaining them.
• Experience of supporting and delivering interventions to disengaged and disadvantaged young people in a one-to-one or in a small-group setting.
• An understanding of the barriers to attendance and engagement, with the ability to implement effective interventions and build positive, impactful relationships.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Highly organised and adaptable, with strong administrative and IT skills, the ability to manage priorities effectively, and work independently as well as part of a team.

Benefits

The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:
Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays
Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
Peoples Pension Scheme
CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.
Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).
Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.

About Us Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to peoples lives through genuinely transformative education and training.We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions-Finance, Human Resources, ITSS,Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estatesand Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and youll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.SAFEGUARDING At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion. As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too. For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds. It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important. Its not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyones contributions and perspectives.RECRUITMENT AGENCIES We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not forward anyunsolicited CVsin relation to any of our advertised roles or speculatively. If we require support with any of our vacancies we will get in touch with agencies directly.

• We do not recognise submissions of unsolicited or speculative CV applications from recruitment agencies.
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