Job Description

Salary

10,693 - 11,206 per annum.

Contractual hours

20

Basis

Part time

Package

Term time only - 36 weeks per annum.
Permanent
Local Government Pension Scheme
Discounted shopping
Wellbeing services
On-site nurseries
Cycle2work scheme
Excellent training and development opportunities

Job category/type

Support

Date posted

23/09/2025

Job reference

REQ002441



An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Attendance Coach within Leicester College. As an Attendance Coach, you will have responsibility for monitoring the attendance and punctuality of maths and English students in the College, predominantly aged between 16 - 18. Your role will be to encourage and promote good attendance, as well as talking to and meeting students and their parents where attendance does not meet the expected standards. As a member of the curriculum team, you will work closely with teaching staff and managers to ensure accurate attendance data is recorded, and help and support is provided for students that enables them to attend regularly and to achieve their qualifications.

You will have excellent communication skills, an ability to approach difficult issues in a calm and responsible manner along with previous experience of working with young people, ideally in education, youth or a community setting. You will also have an ability to build effective working relationships with a diverse range of individual students, parents, guardians, carers and lecturers is also important.

You will have:

Knowledge of Safeguarding policies Level 2 qualifications in maths and English (GCSE Grade C or above, GCSE Grade 4 or above or equivalent)

Interview date: Friday 17 October

We are one of the largest Further Education Colleges in the UK with more than 20,000 students studying with us on a wide range of courses. Our mission: Developing skills, supporting businesses, engaging communities, changing lives.

Leicester College is proud of its diverse workforce and welcomes applications from the whole community.

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