School Attendance Officer

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All completed forms should be returned to [email removed] by the closing date and time shown. Application will be reviewed as soon as possible following the start of term and successful applicants will be invited to interview.

Closing Date – 25th August 2026 at 12 noon

Due to the nature of work the above post is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and relevant care/safeguarding legislation and appointment will only be confirmed if a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure is obtained from the Disclosure & Barring Service
(DBS).
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
This post is subject to Local Government Pension Scheme

Introducing ourselves:

Hudson School and Family Hub, Moorhey Road, Maghull, L31 5LE. 

Hudson is based in Maghull, Merseyside and we provide education for approximately 300 children from ages 3-11 years, from a range of backgrounds and a range of needs.

We take great pride in our true community school as it successfully provides a secure and nurturing resource for vulnerable children and families. We are privileged to offer our Family Hub facilities, outstanding 3 year old Nursery provision and furthermore our specialist resourced autism base to those within our reach with an ASC diagnosis.

At Hudson we want the best for every child, We believe that however long a child is with us, it is important that they make good progress and are equipped for the next stage of their education.

To achieve this, we wish to attract and welcome staff who will work hard to make sure our children feel they are part of a caring community. Please consider the requirements of this position and should you feel you could be a part of what we deliver, we would welcome an application from you to join the team.

Job requirements:

The Governors of Hudson Primary School and Family Hub seek to make the appointment of an Attendance Officer. This brand new role and is offered part time in the first instance working from 8.00am – 12.00pm Monday to Friday across term time. These hours have been carefully chosen to enable the postholder to contribute to raising achievements by improving school attendance.

The successful candidate will be able to

• provide a specialist service to assist the school in meeting their obligations and targets in relation to school attendance, especially persistent absence.
• promote positive attitudes by students and families towards education and to ensure that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities.
• make unsupervised contact with families in their own homes and elsewhere to assess the reasons impacting on the attendance of individual students, facilitating their return or access to regular full-time education provision through building positive and supportive relationships with families.
• establish and develop a professional service to support the school in raising attendance, investigating persistent absences and improving punctuality.

Please see the job description and person specification attached below for further information

In return, we can offer you:

• A caring and supporting ethos
  • A happy and positive school 
  • Enthusiastic, well behaved and hardworking pupils 
  • A welcoming, friendly and supportive staff team 
  • A commitment to future development and training

This advert will be running across the school summer break where there are minimal staff working. If you have any questions or queries, please email [email removed] and our Business Manager will do her best to answer any questions to aid successful completion of your application.