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.

We can offer:

• A high level of support and professional development.
• Friendly and welcoming staff.
• Supportive parents and Governors.
• Enthusiastic, confident children.
• A support package to become a fully qualified teacher.
• Support to train as a teacher.
• Free childcare for ages 3 and over, plus after-school care, is available in discussion with the school. 

Safeguarding Statement

At Billesley Primary School, the safety and well-being of our children are at the heart of everything we do. Every child, regardless of age, gender, culture, community, race, or religion, has the right to be protected from harm and to learn in a safe, nurturing environment. We demonstrate our commitment to our children in all aspects of school life and hold all stakeholders accountable for the very highest standards of safeguarding.

Our Core Principles

A Culture of Vigilance: all staff and volunteers are trained to identify signs of abuse or maltreatment and operate from an ‘it could happen here’ mindset.

Child-Centred Approach: pupil leadership guides our actions and ensures pupil voice is central to decision-making.

Partnership: we work closely with parents, carers, and external agencies to provide the very best for our children.

Our Procedures

Robust Recruitment: rigorous safety vetting checks, including ID, DBS, Barred Lists, Right to Work, references and more, for all adults coming on site.

Statutory Compliance: full adherence to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) and Working Together to Safeguard Children, including weekly staff safeguarding training.

Clear Reporting: a streamlined internal system (MyConcern) for reporting and tracking concerns with ‘real-time monitoring and response.

Curriculum Integration: teaching children how to stay safe through, for example, PSHE lessons, P4C lessons, online safety, healthy relationships, Rights of the Child assemblies, pupil voice meetings, award assemblies, current affairs discussions, open door policies and daily access to our pastoral and senior leadership teams.