Deputy DSL

Bexleyheath Academy, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA6 7DA

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  8 January 2025 at 5:58pm

• Date listed

  11 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £36413 - £48532 per annum

Deputy DSL job summary

Salary: Main Pay Range +TLR1A ( Outer London Weighting) + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (TPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits
Hours:Full Time

Contract type: Permanent

Start date: As soon as Possible

Are you passionate about education and looking for a fulfilling career?

We are looking to appoint an inspirational, organised and ambitious Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead to join our dedicated and enthusiastic team. The Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) will assist the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) in all matters of safeguarding and child protection across the school. The ability to teach either English, Maths, Science, Business and IT would be desirable.

You're someone who has:

* Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

* Have an awareness and understanding of policies and procedures relating to children's services
* Thorough and up to date knowledge of safeguarding legislation and best practice

Ready for your talents to be nurtured?

Come and play a vital role in ensuring our students receive the education they deserve. In collaboration with colleagues, you will deliver outstanding teaching to every child, in every classroom, every day. At our school, we ensure that you have the time and space needed to get on with what matters most - educating - so we remove as much administrative burden from you as possible.

About Bexleyheath Academy:

Bexleyheath Academy is proud to be a non-selective school in the grammar heartland of Kent. Bexleyheath Academy is quickly approaching capacity with students; in order to accommodate the demands of the local community and grow our skilled staff, we must expand.

This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on the lives of young people.

The role is due to commence as soon as possible. This is a full time, permanent position.

Closing date: 6th January 2025

Interviews: 14th January 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Commitment to safeguarding

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

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.

About Bexleyheath Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1394 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Bexleyheath Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bexleyheath-academy (opens in new tab)

Bexleyheath Academy is a non-selective comprehensive situated in the heartland of Kent grammar schools. We have been on an incredible journey of improvement, from previously being in special measures to our current status as a good school and we have a fantastic team of friendly, happy staff in place who have worked hard to realise that transformation; students who are proud to be learning at the school and parents who firmly support the team here.

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