Attendance Engagement Lead

Temporary until June 2025

30 hours a week: Monday to Friday

School Term Time plus 1 week (39 working weeks per year)

Are you interested in transforming children’s lives, making a difference in our community and looking to join our team for your next step? We are excited to offer you this opportunity to join our Venture team.

The Engagement Lead project aims to provide additional support for pupils where attendance and engagement is an issue. Support would be for pupils who are persistently absent, school refusers or those that are experiencing other barriers to attendance and therefore struggling to engage positively with lessons, to reintegrate them back into school and help them to succeed with their education.

This role will support targeted pupils to develop more effective learning behaviours and engage positively with school, including outreach to families to signpost for support with their children’s attendance and engagement where necessary. The EL will help pupils and their families overcome barriers and support pupils to engage positively with learning. ELs will implement targeted interventions based on needs analysis within their school. They will explore and share best practice approaches to engagement and learning behaviours across their schools and with ELs in other schools. This role is supported through additional training and development.

Ormiston Venture Academy is an outstanding academy (Ofsted May 2013) where the contributions and aspirations of students and staff alike are valued. We have a culture of collaboration and are wholly committed to the development of our team to ensure you have access to the best professional opportunities through our commitment to personalised CPD, participation on programs through our Ignite Training offer and in partnerships beyond Venture.

Our students demonstrate a love of learning and our community is built on a sense of respect and partnership for one another.

Our new colleague will also benefit from being part of Ormiston Academies Trust, one of the oldest and largest school trusts in the country. OAT’s vision is for all young people to have access to the highest academic, social and practical skills required to achieve their full potential. OAT support all staff so that they can enhance and develop their professional skills whatever their role within the trust.

Ormiston Academies Trust is an ethical sponsor, committed to improving the life chances of young people. We share their vision for all young people to have the highest academic, social and practical skills to allow them to lead a fulfilling life.

This is an exciting opportunity at Ormiston Venture Academy and requires you to be enthusiastic and passionate with the drive to help our students to achieve their very best.

Please apply by the closing date of 16 January 2025, early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a suitable candidate be found.

Ormiston Venture Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Ormiston Academies Trust embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Flexible working opportunities will be considered.

All successful appointments will be subject to suitability checks in accordance with KCSIE, including identity, Right to Work, qualifications, online searches, prohibition check, two references and enhanced DBS check including Children’s Barred List.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, which provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974