Deputy Safeguarding & Child Protection Officer
Lyng Hall School, Coventry, West Midlands, CV2 3JS11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
2 December 2024 at 9am
Date listed
14 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, term time only, plus three weeks
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 5:- £26,421- £32,076 (Actual Salary - £24,103 - £29,261)
What skills and experience we're looking for
➢ Excellent communication
and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with staff, students, and external agencies
➢ Excellent literacy and numeracy skills
➢ Good organisational skills
➢ Ability to build effective working relationships with pupils and adults, working collaboratively to raise the achievement of pupils
➢ Knowledge of how to help adapt and deliver support to meet individual needs
➢ Active listening skills
➢ Knowledge of guidance and requirements around safeguarding children
➢ Competent use of IT packages including word processing, spreadsheets and school MIS systems
➢ Ability to plan, organise and prioritise to meet deadlines
➢ Ability to respond quickly and effectively to issues that arise
A proactive and solutionoriented approach to safeguarding challenges
Meticulous record keeping
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
• A supportive, collaborative and friendly staff environment in a stunning school setting where you will have the chance to make a real and positive impact on the lives of students.
• A world-class professional development programme with the school being a strategic partner in The Lion Alliance which offers a range of ITT, early careers, middle and senior leader development programmes through the National College, SSAT and the Chartered College of Teaching. There is a passion for teaching and learning evident and recent speakers have included Tom Sherrington, Dylan Wiliam, and Harry Fletcher-Wood.
• A range of health and wellbeing services through the MAT and external services.
• Free, on-site car parking.
• Staff fitness suite.
• School social events.
• A commitment to staff well-being.
Commitment to safeguarding
Lyng Hall and Finham Park Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will have to undertake an enhanced DBS check.
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About Lyng Hall School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 981 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Lyng Hall School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- apply@finhampark.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02477180000
Lyng Hall is a successful and inclusive school with good outcomes for pupils. We pride ourselves on removing barriers to learning through our core values: passion and ambition.
Our Ofsted Inspection described Lyng Hall as a ‘Good’ school, ‘where all teaching is consistently good or better’. ‘Pastoral care for pupils is exceptional’ and as a result ‘the pupils feel very safe in school’. ‘Leaders have developed a highly personalised curriculum’ and ‘the schools work to promote personal development and welfare is outstanding’. We are ambitious in our goal of delivering a world class education to all pupils and are fast progressing towards this.
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