Attendance Manager
The Totteridge Academy, London
£40,000.00 Annually (FTE) United Learning Pay Scales, G2 Professional (negotiable depending on qualifications and experience).
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Attendance and safeguarding on one record
Pupil Protect flags persistent and severe absence, sudden drops and children missing education, next to every concern about that child.
About the job
Attendance Manager
Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Term Time Only (39 weeks per year)
About the role:
As Attendance Manager, you will be responsible for driving improvements in attendance across the academy and ensuring attendance concerns are identified and addressed quickly and effectively.
You will lead attendance interventions, support families, coordinate multi-agency working and oversee day-to-day attendance provision. The role requires excellent communication skills, sound judgement and a strong understanding of the connection between attendance, safeguarding and student wellbeing.
Working closely with students, families and colleagues, you will help remove barriers to attendance, promote positive engagement and ensure every student has the best possible opportunity to achieve and thrive.
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who is passionate about improving outcomes for young people and making a meaningful difference to students and families within our school community.
About us:
As one of London’s leading secondary schools, The Totteridge Academy has earned national recognition for its high expectations and exceptional achievement. Situated in Barnet, North London, it is a highly popular, co-educational, non-selective 11-18 academy with over 1,000 students, reflecting the school’s continued growth and strong demand for places. The Totteridge Academy has an unusually warm, inclusive and aspirational culture: an ethos of continuous improvement that has created a vibrant, purposeful community where students feel supported, challenged and inspired to achieve their best.
About United Learning:
United Learning is a big group of schools - with over 75,000 pupils and more than 10,000 staff. We seek to improve the life chances of all the children and young people we serve and make it our mission to bring out 'the best in everyone' - pupils, staff, parents and the wider community.
About The Totteridge Academy
- Type of school
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary, with a sixth form
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Pupils
- 1,008 (room for 900)
- Free school meals
- 32.5% of pupils
- Local authority
- Barnet
- Address
- Barnet Lane, London, N20 8AZ
Ofsted report card, inspected 25 November 2025
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
- Inclusion
- Exceptional
- Curriculum and teaching
- Exceptional
- Achievement
- Exceptional
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Exceptional
- Post-16 provision
- Strong standard
- Leadership and governance
- Exceptional
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