Attendance Officer

2 months ago

Logan City, Australia Education Full time

**About the School**:
Mabel Park State High School is an extraordinary school located in Logan City, between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. We are a unique school with a growing school population of almost 1,800 students and cater for students in years 7 to 12. We take great pride in the richness of our diversity, embracing the 72 cultures represented by our cohort, united in a community committed to inclusion, connection and belonging. Our reputation as a school, heavily invested in our students' academic wellbeing and our vision to be the most respected, admired and accomplished school, attracts the highest calibre of staff who are aligned in their commitment to the strong learning culture. A focus on academic achievement both now and into the future is expressed both in terms of students' academic results and development as lifelong learners. Our teachers continue to innovate and remain at the forefront of proven and effective teaching and learning practices.
**About the Role**:As the Attendance Officer you will**:

- Support a learning environment by monitoring student attendance, producing absence reports for senior leaders, and liaising with parents/carers to verify student absences.
- Contribute to the effective and efficient operations of the school by providing a high level of administrative support to the Principal and Business Manager.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Generate daily reports on absenteeism, send SMS messages to parents/carers, advise and follow up with teachers, and document relevant information on an excel spreadsheet and on OneSchool.
- Generate a 'Daily Attendance Report' every morning and provide to all teaching staff and deputy principals, and advising teachers of amendments to attendance records due to late notification.
- Collect and coordinate data to determine and document reasons for absences by students chronically absent, monitor student programs, and provide information to teachers and school leaders where necessary, liaising with Student Support Officer, Head of Special Education Program, and Guidance Officer to address issues relating to students experiencing problems that prevent their engagement at school.
- Maintain a database listing student that are independent students, students residing with carers (guardian kinship care/child safety officers), students where there are legal orders against the parents/guardians, or other issues that may impact on student attendance.
- Monitor attendance as a means of increasing awareness of students experiencing problems, and to allow for intervention before such problems get out of hand, and provide this information and advice to assist teachers with managing students with non-attendance issues.
- Forge links between the school and families of students who show persistent absence from school to encourage students' continuous attendance at school, assist teachers addressing these barriers to school attendance, and contribute to the development and implementation of strategies and procedures to counter causes of school non
- attendance.

Please view the Role Description for a full list of responsibilities.
Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.
**Interested? To Apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
- Attach a 2-page written statement in response to the attached role description

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

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