Attendance Mentor at Priory Academy

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Attendance Mentor
Priory Academy andDunstable Icknield Lower School

Actual salary: £18024 per annum (H4 Pro-rata)

Hours: 30 hours per week, term time + INSET

Start Date: June orSept 2026

Contract: Permanent

Priory Academy and DunstableIcknield Lower School are looking to appoint an Attendance Mentor to improveattendance, punctuality and behaviour of identified pupils, particularly thoseeligible for Pupil Premium (PP) and those with Special Educational Needs andDisabilities (SEND), through mentoring, family engagement, and targetedinterventions.

The successful candidates will setthemselves high personal standards and be keen to develop professionally tosupport the school's creative curriculum approach to learning.

Diversity: Scholars' Education Trust is fullycommitted to the principles of equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. We want to attract and retain the very beststaff in all areas of the trust, ensuring our staff body reflects the diversityof our students and local community.

Applications should be made by email tohr@scholarseducationtrust.co.uk.

Closing date: 14 May 2026, 9.00am

Interview date: TBC

We reserve the right to make anappointment before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.

Scholars' Education Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The trustis committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and youngpeople and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, includingchecks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Declaration of criminal offences

The trust is required to give you the opportunity to voluntarilydeclare convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings that are not'protected' as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions)Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020). You will be provided with a criminalself-declaration form by the school if you are shortlisted for the post. Allposts in schools are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Ifyou are appointed you will be required to have an up to date Disclosure andBarring Service (DBS) Certificate. The existence of a criminal background doesnot automatically mean that you cannot be appointed but it may do so.