Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Harris Academy Clapham, London, SW4 8LD35 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter or September
Closing date
8 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
4 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Term time only: actual salary £33,274.91-£34,804.46 (38 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £38,571-£40,344
Pay scale
- Grade 7 (Inner London)
Additional allowances
Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, skilled and knowledgeable Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead.
This is an excellent opportunity to work in a growing Academy, where you will be highly supported by both the Academy team and the wider Harris Federation. As the Academy grows to full capacity there is a wide range of opportunities for future career progression.
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- Understanding of relevant legislation and good practice within the realm of Mental Health Support Services
- Understanding of safeguarding in any setting
- Experience of working with young people
- A clear and good understanding of safeguarding issues, theory and practice
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft software with knowledge of using a management Information system for input and export of student data
- Knowledge of the range of agencies that work with students and their families
- Training in child protection and safeguarding procedures
- Basic knowledge of first aid; eg. Emergency first aid
- Knowledge of many of the social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Good understanding of a range of welfare issues that may be affecting students and their families
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
What the school offers its staff
The vision of Harris Academy Clapham is a simple one. From our opening in September 2020, our academy is a place where‘everything is possible'.
TheClapham curriculumis designed to meet the needs, aspirations and abilities of every one of our students. Our aim is to improve their life chances and enable them to make a positive contribution to the city and world in which they live.
At Harris Clapham, the curriculum is delivered through high-quality teaching. This is codified in our research-informed approach to pedagogy, which we call the Clapham Way.
Through the Clapham academic, enrichment and pastoral curriculum we expect our students to develop powerful knowledge and the following values and character attributes that will enable them to achieve our vision that ‘Everything is Possible'.
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.
Further details about the role
Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting staff who make referrals to local authority children's social care;
- Referring cases of suspected abuse to the local authority children's social care as required;
- Referring cases to the Channel programme where there is a radicalisation concern as required;
- Supporting staff who make referrals to the Channel programme;
- When needed, in the absence of the DSL and with guidance from the Principal, referring cases where a person is dismissed or left due to risk/harm to a child to the Disclosure and Barring Service as required; and
- Referring cases where a crime may have been committed to the Police as required
- Whole school Safeguarding training
- Line management of support staff
- Preparing and presenting information to Academy Governors, ALG and Ofsted
- Management of CPOMS in line with agreed protocols, ensuring that Academy Staff are using it in line with agreed protocols and training if required
You will also be expected top undergo training to provide you with the knowledge and skills required to carry out the role. This training should be updated at least every two years or if circumstances change.
You will also need to undertake Prevent awareness training.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Harris Academy Clapham
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 764 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harris Academy Clapham website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrisclapham.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0204 513 9350
The vision of Harris Academy Clapham is a simple one. From our opening in September 2020, our academy is a place where ‘everything is possible’.
The Clapham curriculum is designed to meet the needs, aspirations and abilities of individual students. Our aim is to improve their life chances and enable them to make a positive contribution to the city and world in which they live.
By this we mean that:
every student is supported to fully develop their academic and personal talents; we help students to go on and achieve their dreams and help others
we work with our families to support all our students, including those who have special educational needs and/or disabilities
we are a supportive part of the Lambeth community, working with our neighbours and others as best we can
every member of staff is supported in becoming the best that they can be, including their future career prospects and ambitions.
Through the Clapham academic, enrichment and pastoral curriculum we expect our students to develop powerful knowledge and the following values and character attributes that will enable them to achieve our vision that ‘Everything is Possible’:
Our key values
Endeavour for excellence
Learning to work hard and relish challenge.
Learning to never give up.
Learning to take sensible risks.
Learning to always strive for the best for themselves and each other.
Integrity and honesty
Always acting with kindness.
Treating others the way they would like to be treated.
Self-belief with a global view
Growing to have the agency to achieve their ambitions for themselves and the wider world.
A central core of our ethos is to fully develop students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural wellbeing. We ensure that our students understand their role in making the academy and their community a safer and better place. We do this in a wide variety of ways, including after-school activities, during lessons, school visits and working with a range of external organisations such as local and national charities.
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