Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
The Oxford Academy, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 6JZ13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
22 September 2025 at 1pm
Date listed
8 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 9 (£34,434 - £37,280)
Additional allowances
Grade 9 (£34,434 - £37,280)
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead job summary
Would you like to make a difference to the lives of young people?
Particularly for those who need our support the most, to ensure they are safe, happy and successful?
Would you like to come and help us to ensure our school has a strong safeguarding culture, where all students flourish?
If so, then you may be interested in our Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead role.
This role has come about after a promotion for the previous postholder who has excelled in this exciting opportunity.
This role will give you the opportunity to work alongside our Senior Leadership Team and Designated Safeguarding Lead, acting in both strategic and operational capacity
to support the ongoing safeguarding culture.
This is a school with great students and ambitious, talented staff who aim to create an environment and culture where all students believe in themselves and feel
positive about their future.
Do you want to work in a school that:
Is friendly and community centred, where staff genuinely feel part of a team.
'The school is mindful of staff workload and well-being. It provides high-quality training and support. Staff recognise this and they feel valued and respected' (Ofsted 2023).
Places staff well-being at the heart of everything we do.
Ofsted judged safeguarding to be effective in 2023. Further visits from the local authority have confirmed this culture has been maintained since.
Has an ‘aspirational and appropriate curriculum for all’ (Ofsted 2023).
Has students who behave well in lessons (Ofsted 2023) so teachers canteach and students can learn.
Prioritises high quality bespoke CPLD as well as opportunities forcollaboration and support across a successful and highly respected multi
academy trust.
The school has a strong track record of offering great care to the families and students we serve. You will also be part of a safeguarding team comprising two safeguarding officers and the DSL. A passion for safeguarding and offering excellent care for those who need it will be essential. The successful candidate will need to be highly organised and efficient.
This is a very exciting time to join our school. We are looking for an enthusiastic professional with the expertise and dedication to live out our values of ‘commitmentto others, commitment to learning.
These commitments are central to our school,
demonstrated by the strong, warm relationships, and a strong culture of learning forboth students and staff.
This role will allow you genuine scope to be part of something ambitious and improve the opportunities and outcomes of students in our school community so asto ensure they have the best possible chance to flourish and succeed. At the Oxford Academy, we work to meet the needs of all - whatever it takes.
The Oxford Academy may hold interviews as and when applications are received, and this job may be withdrawn at any point without notice. With this in mind, you are encouraged to apply as early as possible.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff andcommunities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and eachother, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support, including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks
and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust and the benefits you could
access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The River Learning Trust and The Oxford Academy are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Educationguidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in a regulated activity relevant to children. For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see ourwebsite for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants, click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Oxford Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1113 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Oxford Academy website
The Oxford Academy is a warm, friendly and vibrant school that is built on an ethos of high expectations for all and a belief that every child will be successful - academically, personally and as a lifelong contributor to the wider world.
Our inclusive Christian values underpin all that we do. Staff at our school have a firm belief in the power of education to shape children’s lives for the better. The Oxford Academy is centred on a culture of excellence where we respect each other, are self-motivated, determined, responsible, have a thirst for learning, and a strong sense of pride in belonging to the Academy.
We are committed to providing educational opportunities of the highest quality for all our students and we believe in educating the whole child. We aim to deliver a broad education that is ambitious, varied and stimulating in a caring environment that creates well-rounded individuals who excel and benefit from our approaches to teaching and learning. At the Oxford Academy, we are inclusive and a school for all in our community. We work to meet the needs of our students - whatever it takes.
The Oxford Academy is driven by raising aspirations, expectations and achievements for all. We are very much outward facing and seek to engage with local, national and international partners, in order to build an ambitious network of support for the children in our care. Our fundamental aim is to create vibrant and dynamic learning experiences, so every child has the opportunity to become an ambitious, confident learner.
Our website will enable you to discover more about the Academy; I hope that you will quickly gain a sense of the rich potential of our students and staff, their achievements and the wider life of our school.
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