Assistant Safeguarding Lead and Welfare Officer

St Dominic's School, Godalming, Surrey, GU8 4DX

31 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  to be confirmed

• Closing date

  26 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  25 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 36 hours per week, Term Time only + 1 week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: R6 Scale point 35 – 38; FTE: £37,832 - £39,258 per annum (Actual: £33,672.46 - £34,941.68 per annum), depending on experience

What skills and experience we're looking for

We offer access to an extensive range of GCSE subjects pitched at individual students’ levels. Within the Sixth Form, students are able to access external college placements as part of their personalised holistic education and therapy provision.

The School has an in-house team of qualified therapists offering Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Sensory Integration. The range of therapeutic support available to pupils and students enables them to access the curriculum at an appropriate level, maximising each individual’s potential for achievement. Additionally, there are purpose-built medical facilities where nursing cover is provided on a daily basis by qualified staff.

The School has achieved Advanced Autism Accreditation, the prestigious Arts Council ‘Artsmark’ Silver Award and holds the National Healthy Schools status.

To find out more about St Dominic’s School please visit St Dominic's School.

We are seeking to appoint a professional, well-educated and enthusiastic individual to support the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) to safeguard the school community and promote pupil and student welfare.

This is a varied role working closely with parents, carers, the safeguarding team as well as the wider school staff adhering to the school’s safeguarding procedures and policies to promote the welfare and protection of all pupils and students attending the school.

The job description outlines in detail the main duties for the role which includes acting as DSL when the DSL is off site, attending Child Protection and other safeguarding conferences as well as co-ordinating and leading multi-agency meetings and ensuring that the specialist training needs of the staff are addressed.

Applicants should be an excellent communicator with an eye for detail, able to work on their own initiative, under pressure and have the ability to prioritise to meet demands and deadlines; importantly this means moving between sometimes fast-paced administrative tasks and face-to-face work with pupils, staff and parents. As well, you should possess a natural ability to build relationships easily with children and young people, parents and external agencies.

The successful candidate will maintain confidentiality and sensitivity at all times. You will have previous experience of working with children and young people and an up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding and child protection requirements in schools.

What the school offers its staff

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details on the role and the skills, experience and knowledge we are looking for.

Benefits include: Free car parking, lunch provided on site, and Employee Assistance Programme.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applying for the job

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Assistant Safeguarding Lead JD - September 2025.pdf - 155 KB (opens in new tab)

About St Dominic's School

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 19
• School size: 162 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Dominic's School website
• Email address: zpetkova@stdominicsschool.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-dominic-s-school-godalming

St Dominic’s School is a special academy in Surrey and provides outstanding education for pupils and students aged 7-19 typically with a primary diagnosis of Speech Language & Communication Needs and/or Autistic Spectrum Condition. The school is located in Hambledon, close to Witley, Milford, Guildford and Godalming.
We are part of Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a specialist Trust with 12 Academies and seven College Centres across London, Surrey and Sussex.
At St Dominic’s we believe passionately in a multi-disciplinary, ‘needs led’ approach to meeting each child’s and young person’s needs, resulting in carefully managed groupings, including specialist intervention work from our in house therapeutic team.
The school works closely in partnership with families, referring authorities and external agencies to coordinate the best possible education, care, guidance and support for its pupils and students.

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