Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Ernulf Academy, St. Neots, PE19 2SHThis job expired on 8 September 2024 – see similar jobs
Closing date
8 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
22 July 2024
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
- £30,296.00 - £31,364.00 Annually (FTE) Term time contract - 37 hours per week - actual salary £25,985 - £26,901 per annum
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead job summary
Are you someone looking for a varied role that brings a new challenge every day?
Do you want to be part of a team where you will help make a lasting impact on our students?
Ernulf Academy is an 11-16 comprehensive academy which is really on the move. Based in St.Neots in Cambridgeshire, Ernulf Academy has an increasing roll with over 700 students. As a truly comprehensive and inclusive academy, the school is proud of its place within the local community. This is reflected in our approach to all areas of our work. From supporting students preparing for Oxbridge through to working with the most vulnerable Ernulf Academy embraces everyone.
The fundamental duty of the post holder is to support the Designated Safeguarding Lead to deliver effective safeguarding procedures, child protection and online safety procedures across the Academy, with the aim of ensuring the safeguarding and welfare of our students is a clear priority.
The purpose of the role is to support the DSL in their leadership of safeguarding, in order to create a strong culture of safeguarding across the Academy. The DDSL will represent the ethos, values, and approach of the Academy to pupils, parents, and staff. With this as a starting point, the Academy can offer our students, staff and communities the safe, happy, and thriving education setting they deserve.
We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative. We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special educational need. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.
We value our staff highly and treat workload very seriously. Our systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose.
What we offer:
- Excellent support from the Astrea Trust Central team
- Highly visible/supportive senior leaders who have your back
- Excellent ongoing CPD, career development and promotion opportunities across the Astrea South Yorkshire region
- An unrivalled professional progression model.
What we are looking for:
The successful candidate will:
- Support the Designated Safeguarding Lead, deputizing for them as required. Acting in the role of the DDSL as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education.
- Support the DSL in developing and maintaining a strong culture of safeguarding across the Academy.
- Support the DSL to develop, implement, and supervise appropriate responses to safeguarding and child protection concerns.
- Establish and maintain effective working partnerships with other agencies and individuals, to increase understanding and awareness of student needs.
- Encourage a culture of listening to children and taking account of their wishes and feelings in all circumstances which concern them.
Interested in applying?
If this is something you are interested in, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education or maybe all the above, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role and how to apply.
We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to appreciate fully our excellent learning environment. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.
Further information
If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can positively impact a number of entitlements, including increased annual holiday payments which represent an increase in salary. This can be discussed in more detail at interview.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
About Ernulf Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 733 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ernulf Academy website
Principal’s welcome – Ernulf Academy
Welcome to Ernulf Academy, an 11-16 secondary school in St.Neots located in North Cambridgeshire. The academy is part of Astrea Academy Trust, a highly successful multi-academy trust of primary and secondary academies in Cambridgeshire and South Yorkshire.
Ernulf Academy is a school fully committed to an inclusive, comprehensive curriculum for all, which is underpinned by our five core values: scholarship, curiosity, tenacity, responsibility and respect. These values are at the heart of our vision for the school and the important qualities and characteristics we want all pupils to develop. Our pupils are encouraged to develop confidence, independence and resilience. We strive for them to be ambitious and ‘be the best they can be’, whilst being considerate, tolerant and willing to contribute positively to the wider community.
Work hard
We firmly believe in a disruption free learning environment and as such we have established nine core routines which form the basis of our academic day. A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge,’ underpins our teaching and learning principles. We offer a traditional approach to teaching and learning following evidence-based research by Rosenshine and Teach Like A Champion (TLAC) which lead to inspiring and stimulating lessons. Our enrichment provision aims to take learning outside the classroom and we offer an extensive range of extra-curricular activities including sporting activities, residential visits and educational experiences.
Safeguarding is at the heart of what we do and we recognise the challenges that our pupils face. Therefore, we have a dedicated pastoral team with a Head of Year and Pastoral Co-ordinator for each year group and a ‘Wellbeing’ team including our school therapy dog.
Be kind
Ernulf Academy is a friendly and supportive school, which prides itself on treating everyone as individuals and having a ‘family’ atmosphere. We teach our pupils empathy and respect, and we have a zero tolerance to bullying. A scholarly approach is at our core but enabling our pupils to have a holistic education, preparing them for life in the 21st century and becoming global citizens is just as important.
Mark Neesam
Principal
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