Attendance and Mentoring Lead

Join our team We are a large, vibrant and inclusive primary school committed to ensuring every child is supported to thrive, attend regularly and achieve excellence. We are seeking an enthusiastic, highly organised, and compassionate Attendance and Mentoring Lead to join our dedicated pastoral team. This exciting opportunity is ideal for a professional who understands the key drivers of excellent school attendance, demonstrates a genuine passion for nurturing pupils’ social and emotional development and effectively leverages parental engagement to achieve positive outcomes. The successful candidate will play a key role in building positive relationships with pupils, families and teaching staff, identifying barriers to attendance, and leading the provision of effective mentoring and pastoral support. We are seeking someone who is: - Passionate about improving outcomes for children and families. - Warm, approachable and able to build strong professional relationships. - Confident working with children and families in complex circumstances - Highly organised, resilient and able to manage competing priorities. - Confident communicating with parents and carers, including when conversations can be challenging. - Competent in using data to identify concerns and measure improvement. - Proactive, solution-focused and able to work independently. - A strong team player who understands the importance of effective pastoral and multi-agency working. - Committed to safeguarding, inclusion and equality of opportunity You will: - Promote a positive culture of attendance throughout the school. - Lead on the daily systems and processes, monitoring and promotion of pupil attendance and mentoring - Analyse attendance data to identify patterns, trends and pupils requiring additional support. - Work closely with school leaders, teachers, families and external agencies to improve attendance. - Develop positive, trusting relationships with pupils and families and provide targeted mentoring; and lead, develop and quality assure other mentors - Communicate sensitively, confidently and collaboratively with parents, carers and staff regarding attendance concerns and mentoring requirements - Maintain accurate, up-to-date and confidential records. Main Responsibilities: - Deliver a vision for school attendance through the school’s new ARC strategy (Accountability, Relationships, Communication). - Lead robust attendance initiatives, monitor pupil data and collaborate with families and local agencies to improve attendance and reduce persistent absence. - Build strong, trusting relationships with parents and carers to identify and address attendance concerns early. - Lead and deliver targeted social, emotional and behavioural support to pupils through one-to-one and group mentoring, including quality assuring of wider mentoring provision. - Maintain accurate records and track the outcomes of mentoring interventions to demonstrate positive progress. - Work closely with the wider Pastoral Team, teaching staff and the Senior Leadership Team to support pupils experiencing challenges.