Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College, Barking, Essex, IG11 9AG24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As Soon As
Closing date
3 November 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £37,734.00 Annually (Actual) P02 Pt 29-32 (£42,771 - £45,750 full time) Prorated salary range is likely to be approx. £37,734 – £40,362, (dependant on experience, weeks per year and continuous service). Based on working 35 hours per week, Term time plus 10 days.
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead job summary
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Commencing: As Soon As Possible
Contract: Perm, 35 hours week, Term time plus 10 Days
Salary Scale: P02 Pt 29-32 (£42,771 - £45,750 full time) Prorated salary range is likely to be approx. £37,734 - £40,362, (dependant on experience, weeks per year and continuous service). Based on working 35 hours per week, Term time plus 10 days.
We are seeking to appoint a professional, well-educated and experienced colleague as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead. Applicants should be flexible, able to work on their own initiative, under pressure and have the ability to prioritise to meet the need and demands of the role.
This is a varied role giving day to day professional support to the school’s two Designated Safeguarding Leads and the development of safeguarding and child protection procedures within the school. This will include training and implementing systems; working with young people and their families to champion the safeguarding policy; responding appropriately to disclosures or concerns and raising awareness of safeguarding and child protection at Barking Abbey school.
We are looking for a skilled and experienced person with a background in education and safeguarding to join the team at Barking Abbey School. You will need experience of supporting children and families through challenging issues, sometimes under very difficult circumstances and liaising with external services. Applicants must have experience of working with young people, preferably with a strong background of child protection work.
Barking Abbey is an Ofsted Outstanding heavily over-subscribed dual campus secondary school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, with a well-deserved reputation for academic excellence and a supportive professional environment.
The school is located less than 10 minutes walk from Upney tube and 15 minutes from Barking mainline station.
Barking Abbey celebrates its diversity, and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. If you are interested in making a difference in young people’s lives whatever your background or history please apply.
In return we can offer:
A school where we get to know our students and staff well, find out what they are good at and develop their talents.
A supportive and encouraging staff team.
The opportunity to access a wide range of CPD opportunities within and beyond school.
A school which understands the importance of staff well-being and workload management.
A school where we get to know our students and staff well, find out what they are good at and develop their talents.
A professional, friendly and supportive working environment.
A positive ethos with excellent behaviour reinforced by highly visible SLT and centralised behaviour systems.
We are proud that Ofsted recently judged the school to be Outstanding in all areas. The report states; “Pupils learn and achieve very well... Pupils across both sites are happy and safe at Barking Abbey School…Pupils are motivated to work hard and enjoy positive working relationships with staff... Students new to the Sixth Form commented on how welcoming, inclusive and diverse the community is… Leaders prioritise aspiration and ambition.” (Ofsted, December 2022)
Please click here to find out more information about what it is like to work at Barking Abbey:
https://www.barkingabbeyschool.co.uk/home/join-us/staff-vacancies/
Barking Abbey is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process, including Disclosure check, will be undertaken on all successful applicants.
Online searches may be conducted for all shortlisted candidates and will be conducted for all successful candidates as part of our due diligence checks.
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 Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2336 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Welcome to Barking Abbey school and thank you for expressing an interest in applying for a position here.
For me there are three simple things that I want us to achieve at Barking Abbey school.
First, our motto ‘Give and Expect the best’ leads us to want to be the best in everything we do. We have some of the best results in the area, we have pupils at the best universities, we have the most pupils on apprenticeships in the entire country, we have basketball players in the best leagues and so much more. We have all of this because we push our pupils and each other to excel. All of us try to be our best every day.
Second, I firmly believe that if you can’t see it you can’t be it. We want to give our pupils the chance to see successful people of every religion, colour and background whilst they are at school. Whatever their dreams
we want to support them and provide the networks and contacts to help them to achieve.
Finally, we want our pupils to have a voice in the world. To be confident enough to express their views and also to have the knowledge to be able to make an effective contribution. The more you know the more
powerful you can be in the world.
Sir Tim Brighouse said “If a teacher makes the weather the school creates the climate.” and I firmly believe this. It is our role as a leadership team to create the best possible learning environment for our teachers
to teach in. In return we expect the best possible teaching from them and our results show this over time.
If you share our ethos and values and absolutely believe in the potential of all young people then we can offer you the chance to make a difference and change our community for the better, and look forward to receiving
your application form and welcoming you to our school.
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