Attendance & Safeguarding Lead
Salford City Academy, Manchester, M30 7PQ8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
11 September 2026 at 8am
Date listed
28 August 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £31,042.00 - £41,231.00 Annually (FTE) Band 3 Professional (points 1 - 3) Term time only with flexibility for additional plus weeks
Attendance & Safeguarding Lead job summary
Attendance & Safeguarding Lead - Advert
Salary: United Learning Band 3 Professional (Points 1- 3) £31,042 - £41,231
Contract type: Permanent term time only with the flexibility for additional weeks
Attendance & Safeguarding Lead
Salford City Academy is seeking to appoint an ambitious, compassionate and highly motivated Attendance & Safeguarding Lead to join our dedicated Pastoral and Safeguarding Team.
This is not simply about appointing the most experienced candidate. It is about finding the right person.
After 19 years at Salford City Academy, our Principal remains convinced of one thing above all else: character matters more than experience. Experience can be developed. Character shapes relationships, builds trust and changes lives.
We are looking for someone who genuinely cares about young people and families, someone who can build strong relationships, navigate difficult conversations with empathy and professionalism, and remain determined when facing challenges.
Whilst experience in attendance or safeguarding would be welcomed, we are particularly keen to hear from individuals who can demonstrate the resilience, professionalism, warmth and determination needed to succeed in this important role. You may already work in education, social care, youth work or another people-focused profession. What matters most is your ability to build trust, show compassion and make a difference.
This role also offers an excellent opportunity to develop a long-term career in attendance, safeguarding and pastoral leadership. The successful candidate will receive extensive training, coaching and professional development, including opportunities to gain experience in attendance strategy, safeguarding practice, multi-agency working and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead responsibilities.
As part of United Learning, there are exciting progression opportunities both within Salford City Academy and across the wider Trust. We are committed to developing our people and helping them achieve their ambitions.
Who Will Thrive in This Role?
This is not simply about appointing the most experienced candidate. It is about finding the right person.
Attendance and safeguarding are about far more than systems and processes. Behind every attendance concern is a young person who may need support. Behind every safeguarding concern is a family who may need guidance. We are looking for someone who understands the importance of listening, noticing and acting, and who believes that every child deserves to be safe, supported and in school, learning.
This role requires someone who can combine compassion with challenge. Someone who can build trust with families whilst also having the confidence to hold difficult conversations when needed. We are looking for a colleague who understands that doing the right thing is not always the easy thing, and who is prepared to advocate relentlessly for the needs of young people.
The successful candidate will:
- Put students at the heart of every decision.
- Build strong relationships with students, families and colleagues.
- Be driven by a determination to improve the life chances of young people.
- Have the confidence to hold challenging and sometimes difficult conversations.
- Balance empathy with high expectations and professional challenge.
- Demonstrate resilience, professionalism and compassion.
- Be highly organised and able to manage competing priorities.
- Communicate confidently with a range of stakeholders and external agencies.
- Lead with integrity and maintain the highest standards of safeguarding.
- Value teamwork and contribute positively to our culture.
- Be ambitious for our students and their own development.
Our View
Experience is important, but character matters more.
We are looking for someone who is committed to learning, open to feedback, willing to embrace challenge and excited by the opportunity to make a genuine difference to the lives of young people and families.
This is not about finding the finished article.
It is about finding the right person. Someone who will thrive here, contribute to our culture and share our belief that every child deserves the opportunity to attend school, feel safe and achieve their potential. We are looking for someone who is warm and approachable, but also courageous, determined and prepared to challenge when necessary in the best interests of children.
If you are looking for a role where your contribution will matter, your relationships will make a difference and your impact will be felt every single day, we would love to hear from you.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Salford City Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 876 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Salford City Academy website
School location
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