Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL)
Broadoak Academy, Weston-Super-Mare, BS23 4NP6 days remaining to apply
Job start date
3 September 2026
Closing date
16 July 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 July 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Actual Annual Salary: £32,274 - £35,692
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) job summary
Job Title: Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL)
Actual Annual Salary: £32,274 - £35,692 (Based on hours and working weeks)
Full Time Equivalent Salary: £35,852 - £39,649 (CLF Grade E). Based on 37 hours per week, all year round.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday / Term Time Only, + INSET days, + 2 additional weeks
Provisional Start Date: 03 September 2026
Your opportunity to play a key role in promoting a culture of safeguarding and ensuring every child feels safe, supported and able to thrive:
The Designated Deputy Safeguarding Lead will support the academy in ensuring safeguarding and child protection practices are implemented in line with statutory requirements. The postholder will support the development and delivery of safeguarding policies, guidance, training and procedures, whilst working closely with academy leaders, staff, external agencies, parents/carers and students to promote a strong culture of safeguarding. The role includes supporting safeguarding case management, providing advice and guidance to staff, contributing to safeguarding training, monitoring vulnerable students, and maintaining accurate safeguarding records and reporting processes.
About you:
You will have:
- Strong knowledge of safeguarding and child protection legislation, guidance and best practice.
- Experience working with children and young people, including multi-agency partnership working.
- The ability to interpret policies and procedures and provide professional safeguarding advice.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively with staff, families and external agencies.
- Strong organisational, analytical and record-keeping skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Experience using safeguarding systems and data to support effective decision-making and positive outcomes for students.
- The ability to deliver guidance, support and training to colleagues.
- Emotional resilience, professionalism and a commitment to safeguarding, inclusion and continuous improvement.
- Advanced safeguarding training (or willingness to undertake training) and the ability to travel between sites where required.
Applicants are advised to refer to the full requirements of the role in the attached job description and person specification, prior to submitting an application.
About Broadoak Academy:
Broadoak Academy is an ever-growing secondary school located in Weston-super-Mare and is quickly becoming the school of choice for parents in the town. We are very proud to be an Ofsted-rated ‘Good’ school. We have a strong sense of belonging and community, and as such, we work together to offer students a well-balanced, happy and successful education. Our community is assured of Broadoak’s pivotal role in their children’s education, wellbeing and futures.
Why work at CLF?
We are a diverse and inclusive community of 36 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters and so encourage applications from underrepresented and global majority groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
What we can offer you:
- Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Generous annual leave.
- A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
- Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
- A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
- Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!
Recruitment timeline:
• Closing Date: 16 July 2026 @11.59pm
• Short-listing: 17 July 2026
• Interviews: 20 July 2026
We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment.
As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.
We are unable to offer sponsorship with this role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to equity and inclusion and commit to interviewing applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. We aim to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and support employees throughout their employment. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process please let us know how we can assist.
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 Broadoak Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 792 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Broadoak Academy website
Broadoak Academy is part of CLF which is a 3-19 organisation with a mix of primary, secondary and an all through academies. It is located in the south of Weston near to Uphill Village, Weston-super-Mare. There has been a school on this site serving the community for nearly 100 years and we have a PAN of 900
• The proportion of children eligible for the pupil premium, which is additional funding for pupils in receipt of supported income, looked-after children and children from service families is above the national average at 36%.
• 11% of the school speak English as an additional language
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