Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Bodmin College, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 1DD7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
On completion of pre-employment checks
Closing date
16 September 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 September 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
- £25,075.00 - £29,240.47 Annually (Actual) H1-H6
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead job summary
We are seeking an experienced and committed Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead to join Bodmin College and play a key role in ensuring that safeguarding remains at the heart of school life.
Working closely with senior leaders and the wider safeguarding team, you will take day-to-day responsibility for safeguarding and child protection, managing referrals, coordinating support for vulnerable learners and working effectively with families, staff and external agencies. You will also help ensure that safeguarding policies, procedures, training and record-keeping are robust, compliant and consistently embedded across the school.
This is a highly relational role requiring sound professional judgement, excellent organisation and the ability to remain calm when managing sensitive and complex situations. You will be a trusted source of advice and support for colleagues, while ensuring that the voice, welfare and educational outcomes of children remain central to decision-making.
We are looking for someone who is approachable, empathetic, resilient and highly organised, with experience of working with children in a pastoral setting and as part of a safeguarding team. You will share Bodmin College's commitment to inclusion, high expectations and ensuring every learner has the opportunity to thrive.
our school
At Bodmin College, our mission is “to provide a great quality of education so that every child can live a life full of choice and boundless opportunities.”
We believe in the power of strong relationships- between students, their families, staff and the wider community- and that we become stronger by learning with and from each other.
Bodmin College is on a transformational journey to provide an inclusive and ambitious education for all learners.
In the last 12 months we:
- Improved A8 to be in line with national standards moving from 27th in Cornwall to 11th
- Are the top 10 school nationally for improvement in English A8
- Reduced fixed term suspensions by 68%
- Improved attendance by 3.61% and have been recently recognised as a high performing school within our similar schools
Our students are incredible and deserve the very best staff who are driven, compassionate relentlessly positive in what we are seeking to achieve together. You will be joining a team who work collegiately together with a common purpose to achieve our goals.
Bodmin College is a warm, ambitious and forward-looking school community in the heart of Cornwall. We are part of Cornwall Education Learning Trust which means we have a strong culture of professional growth: we invest in our staff, encourage reflective practice and support you to become a great practitioner.
We have exceptionally high expectations for student behaviour and support our teachers to be confident to deliver lessons where students continue to learn, contribute positively and make progress in their learning.
If you share our values and are passionate about enabling every child to succeed, we’d love to hear from you.
To discuss the role in more detail, please contact K O’Mara, Deputy Headteacher at komara@bodmin.celtrust.org
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Bodmin College is committed to the care and wellbeing of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to provide an enhanced DBS disclosure
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 Bodmin College
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1236 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Bodmin College website
Bodmin College is a large 11-19 establishment (with Area Resource Base - ARB) providing, extensive, high quality education and care. We maintain high standards of achievement and traditional values within a disciplined and caring environment. Students are encouraged to enjoy their education, to develop respect for others and, through assuming responsibility, to develop as reliable and mature individuals ready to take an active role in adult life.
Our College is characterised by its vision of, ‘striving for excellence by putting the learner first’. We aim, in all that we do, to put students at the centre of our decision making processes and at the heart of our four key objectives which are:
• To improve the attainment and progress of all students in all subjects
• To improve the educational opportunities for all students in all subjects
• To improve the quality of the learning experience for all students in all subjects
• To assist and work in partnership with parents and carers to improve students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
This vision and our objectives are underpinned by an ethos in which we expect everyone, ‘to be kind, be polite, to be honest and to work to the very best of their ability.
With notable success as a finalists in the UK Social Mobility Awards for two consecutive years, we pride ourselves on opening doors, creating opportunity and raising aspirations.
More recently, our journey with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust has seen our committed involvement in ‘The Framework for Excellence. A journey towards a world-class education system’. Within this structure, assessment has been robust and challenging, yet one in which we have been successfully recognised as providing ‘exceptional education’ through our ‘principled curriculum design’, ‘leadership through moral purpose’ and in our ‘climate for learning’ (SSAT, 2017). We have received national recognition for raising aspirations, removing barriers to social mobility and opening up world-class opportunities to our students.
Bodmin College has recently been invited to participate in the ‘Connect the Classroom’ scheme through the DfE. This scheme will see a significant investment in the IT infrastructure within the college to improve WiFi and connectivity throughout the college campus.
In addition, the college has also been successful in the exciting School Rebuilding Programme which will see another significant level of investment to improve the buildings on our site. We are hopeful that this award will assist us in continuing to develop the learning environment for all our students and staff. It is a long term project which will help us to deliver our vision for excellent education in the local area.
We achieve this only through the dedication, commitment, passion and hard work of our staff. Our staff body are valued and cared for and their wellbeing, professional development and input are important to us.
Please note that Bodmin College is not a sponsoring organisation. Therefore the successful applicant must already possess the right to work in the UK or be able to secure the right to work in the UK independently.
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