Position Overview & Specifications
Permanent role - 37 hours per week.
Term Time only plus 1 week (5 days).
Friendly and welcoming? Brilliant customer service skills? Calm under pressure? Excellent IT and admin skills?
We have an exciting opportunity for an organised and compassionate administrator to join our Associate Staff Team at Reading School as Attendance and Reporting Officer.
The Attendance and Reporting Officer will manage the attendance data and processes, weekly reporting of behaviour issues, and half termly academic reporting.
As one of the frontline Student Services team, you will liaise with parents to record absence and monitor student attendance at lessons during the school day. You will work with the Pastoral Team to review low attendance or repeated misbehaviour.
We are looking for someone who has:
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong ICT skills from a business or education environment.
- Experience of providing excellent customer service.
- The ability to relate well to children and adults.
Combining a distinguished heritage, a positive reputation for outstanding academic achievement and a commitment to high standards of pastoral care, at Reading School we aspire to be a "World Class School" with excellence at the heart of everything we do. We are situated 15 minutes' walk from central Reading and close to transport links. Reading is a diverse place to live with arts, culture and heritage at the heart of the town.
We offer an exceptional all-round education enabling each student to realise his academic, cultural or sporting potential. A Selective Boys’ School, Reading School takes both day and boarding students. In 2022 and 2023, the school was rated the Sunday Times South East State Secondary School of the Year and awarded 'outstanding' in the Boarding Ofsted Inspection in February 2020.
Reading School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate must be willing to undergo an Enhanced DBS Disclosure. Full details of our Safeguarding - Staff Recruitment Policy and Data Policy can be found on our website.
All applicants must complete an associate staff application form which can be found on our website.
A full information pack can be found here.
Deadline for Applications: 9am, Wednesday 1 March
Interviews are anticipated to take place the following week.
Early application is advised as we hold the right to close the application process early if a suitable applicant applies and is appointed.