Job Description

Job reference orbis/TP/387386/45804
Positions available 1
Working hours 37
Closing date 1 December 2025
Job category Administration & Clerical
Organisation Brighton & Hove City Council
Directorate BHCC: External
Job introduction
We are looking for an Attendance Officer to start asap. 37 hours per week, term-time only.
The successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring and improving school attendance by managing administrative tasks, communication with families and liaising with staff and external agencies. Key duties include ensuring daily register completion, making absence calls, going on home visits, recording and analysing attendance data and implementing procedures to address persistent absence, to act appropriately when persistent absence becomes a safeguarding issue and to hold meetings with parents and students when required.
Paid weeks per year: 46 (inclusive of holiday entitlement)
Start date: As soon as possible
About the role
What can we offer you?

• Leaders who create a positive working environment where Teaching and Learning is the priority
• An established, motivated and supportive department
• Conscientious and hardworking students in a 'very happy and safe school' (OFSTED 2024)
• An effective behaviour for learning policy where 'pupils behave well' (OFSTED 2024)
• A supportive and collaborative staff body
• An excellent CPD programme and opportunities for progression
• Two-week October half term
• Academy wide staff benefits and discounts (My KGA)
• The opportunity to work in an Eco School
• A beautiful, rural environment situated approximately 12 miles from the coastal city of Brighton and Hove

Full details and an application form can be download directly from our website: or contact Amanda French on either 01273 815460 or quoting job reference P/510.
We offer a first class working environment with supportive colleagues and opportunities for career development.
Closing date: Monday 1 December 2025 at 8.30am
Interview date: Wednesday 3 December 2025
How to apply: Completed application forms accepted by email/post direct to the school office:
Email:
Address: King's Academy Ringmer, Lewes Road, Ringmer, East Sussex, BN8 5RB
Telephone: 01273 815460
Website:
Additional information
King's Academy Ringmer is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All posts within our Multi Academy trust are exempt for the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore all applicants will be required to declare spent and unspent convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as spent and complete an Enhanced Criminal Records Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Company information
Brighton & Hove City Council is advertising on behalf of the school and is not the employer in this case.
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Skills Required