Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL)

Neale-Wade Academy, March, Cambridgeshire, PE15 9PX

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  18 October 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: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £32,046.00 - £35,570.00 Annually (FTE) £21,726.62 to £24,115.83 Annually (Actual)

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) job summary

Location: Neale-Wade Academy, March, Cambridgeshire

Contract: Fixed term until October 2027, 30 hours per week, 38 weeks per year

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday 09:30 - 16:00

Salary (Actual): ALT Grade G - £21,726.62 to £24,115.83

Help create a safer future for every child.

We are looking for a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead to play a pivotal role in protecting and supporting young people at Neale-Wade Academy, a caring and ambitious 11 to 18 academy at the heart of the March community.

Working closely with the Designated Safeguarding Lead, this role sits at the centre of the academy’s safeguarding provision, coordinating support for vulnerable learners, building trusted relationships with families and external agencies, and helping to ensure that every concern is acted upon with care and professionalism.

This is an opportunity for a compassionate, resilient and highly collaborative individual to make a meaningful difference every day while helping to strengthen a culture where safeguarding is understood to be everyone’s responsibility.

Summary of Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate safeguarding and child protection processes, ensuring concerns are identified, recorded and acted upon promptly.
• Lead and coordinate referrals, early help interventions and multi-agency support for vulnerable learners and families.
• Maintain accurate safeguarding records, monitor at-risk pupils and provide safeguarding reporting to senior leaders.
• Support staff through advice, guidance and safeguarding, PREVENT and online safety training.
• Build effective partnerships with families, schools and external agencies to improve outcomes and keep children safe

Contact
If you would like an informal discussion about the role, or for more information, please contact Donna Spendelow, HR and Recruitment Officer at: DSpendelow@neale-wade.org

The Active Learning Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint prior to the advert closing date. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

To ensure we recruit and retain the best talent, all new employees recruited to the Active Learning Trust (leadership, teaching and support staff) will be subject to a 4 months’ probation period at the start of their employment. This policy aims to assess new employees' alignment with our culture, teaching standards, and student needs. It is designed to foster success; with regular evaluations and support mechanisms in place, helping us to identify and nurture talent.

We value diversity and welcome applications from all, including those with protected characteristics under the Equality Act.

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

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.

About Neale-Wade Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1130 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Neale-Wade Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/neale-wade-academy

Neale Wade Academy is an educational establishment for 11 - 18 year old students.

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