Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead

Hayes School, Bromley, Kent, BR2 7DB

17 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  5 January 2026

• Closing date

  8 December 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:00pm 36.65h/week 39 weeks (term time only)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £34,448- £36,585
• Pay scale: Scale 6 (point 16-20)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

• Knowledge of safeguarding & child protection legislation and processes

• Knowledge of internal policies and local safeguarding partnership arrangements

• Ability to assess safeguarding concerns quickly and accurately

• Skilled in making sound, timely decisions under pressure

• Ability to escalate concerns appropriately to social care or emergency services

• Excellent verbal and written communication

• Ability to deliver safeguarding training or briefings to staff

• Skilled at providing advice, guidance, and reassurance to colleagues

• Ability to manage multiple cases and deadlines

• Ability to remain calm, focused, and professional when dealing with distressing situations

• Maintains strict confidentiality and understands when information must be shared

• High personal integrity and commitment to safeguarding

• Demonstrates empathy, respect, and a non-judgmental attitude

• Confident taking ownership in the DSL’s absence

• Consistently puts the needs and safety of the child first.

Qualifications:

• Advanced level safeguarding and child protection training
• Prevent duty training
• QTS, Social work qualification, pastoral qualification or other safeguarding/ child protection certificate

Experience:

Working with children and young people

• Work in a secondary school setting (teacher, pastoral role, SEN, behaviour support, etc.).
• Strong understanding of adolescent development and the risks affecting teenagers (e.g., online harm, exploitation, mental health).

Dealing with safeguarding concerns

• Handling disclosures from students.
• Recording and reporting concerns in line with statutory guidance.
• Liaising with pastoral staff, teachers, and external agencies.

Multi-agency working

• Collaborating with: Children’s Social Care, Early Help services, Police, CAMHS and Other safeguarding partners
• Understanding thresholds of intervention.

Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance

• Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
• School safeguarding policies and local procedures.

Managing sensitive information

• Maintaining secure, accurate safeguarding records.
• Understanding confidentiality and GDPR in a safeguarding context.

Supporting staff

• Advising colleagues on safeguarding referrals.
• Delivering or contributing to staff safeguarding training.
• Promoting a safeguarding culture across the school.
• Working with vulnerable groups

What the school offers its staff

• Motivated students with outstanding attitudes to learning.
• Outstanding student behaviour.
• Excellent facilities for staff, including an on-site fitness suite.
• An excellent induction and support programme for new staff.
• An employee Assistance Programme and flu vaccination.
• Innovative approaches to Teacher Professional Development
• Opportunities to work with other schools through established partnerships.
• A friendly working environment

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

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Therefore, the successful applicant will be subject to Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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2023-Support-Staff-Application-Form-IMAT.docx - 85 KB (opens in new tab)

Candidate Pack - DDSL.pdf - 1.05 MB (opens in new tab)

About Hayes School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1771 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hayes School website
• Email address: vacancies@hayes.bromley.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hayes-school-bromley

Hayes School is a high achieving, oversubscribed school, which provides excellent education for its students as well as exciting opportunities for professional and career development for staff.

The school benefits from its proximity to central London and excellent transport links whilst bordering the beautiful Kent countryside.
Our school benefits from and actively contributes to a range of partnerships and we are the lead school for the Bromley Schools’ Collegiate, a School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) provider for primary and secondary teacher training.

Arranging a visit to Hayes School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancies@hayes.bromley.sch.uk.

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