Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL)

Harlington School, Hayes, UB3 1PB

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Immediately considering notice period

• Closing date

  13 November 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  23 October 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: £39,506.00 Annually (Actual) Associate Staff Pay Scale - Pro Rata

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) job summary

As Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead at Harlington School, you will play a key role in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students. Working alongside the Designated Safeguarding Lead, your responsibilities will include:

• Managing safeguarding and child protection cases, assessing concerns and determining appropriate next steps.

• Making referrals to Children's Social Care, Early Help, CAMHS, the police and other external agencies.

• Supporting students on Child Protection, Child in Need and Early Help plans, including attending multi-agency meetings and contributing reports.

• Deputising for the Designated Safeguarding Lead, taking responsibility for safeguarding decisions in their absence.

• Responding to contextual safeguarding concerns, including exploitation, online harm, peer-on-peer abuse and missing-from-education cases.

• Working collaboratively with pastoral teams, families and external professionals to ensure students receive appropriate support.

• Maintaining accurate safeguarding records, monitoring case progress and contributing to safeguarding audits and reports.

• Supporting staff with safeguarding advice, training and guidance to promote a strong safeguarding culture across the school.

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

Harlington School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All job offers are provisional until such time as the school has undertaken appropriate safeguarding checks and is satisfied that successful candidates are suitable to work with children and young people.

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.

About Harlington School

• Organisation type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1409 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Harlington School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/harlington-school

Harlington School: A caring, forward thinking professional learning community, that develops exceptional educators and kind hearted, hard-working and well-rounded young people, all with a passion for enquiry and scholarship.

Harlington School’s ambition is to offer its students the best possible educational opportunities. We are a mixed, non-selective school for students between 11 and 19 years old. We expect our students to leave Harlington School with the confidence and qualifications to enable them to move onto university or a career of their choice.

To do this we:
• Have high expectations of commitment to learning from students, staff and parents.
• Have high expectations of conduct.
• Provide a safe, caring environment where respect and for others are taught and valued.
• Provide high quality teaching.
• Provide a curriculum that meets the needs of all students, whatever their ability.
• Provide a range of extra-curricular activities.
• Provide regular, careful review and assessment of every student’s progress and needs and tailored support for each child.
• Involve parents in every aspect of their child’s education and emotional well-being whilst at school.

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