Designated Deputy Safeguarding Lead
Henley Bank High School, Gloucester, GL3 4QFDeadline is today
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
30 September 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36.00 hours per week - Monday to Thursday 8.15am - 16.00pm and Friday 8.15am - 15.45pm (with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,824.00 - £32,597.00 FTE (£25,953.58 - £31,672.41 actual salary)
Pay scale
- NJC Grade G, Scale Points 8-20
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a Designated Deputy Safeguarding Lead. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated and committed individual to join our Safeguarding Team as. This growth is also enabling us to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our students within the school.
At Henley Bank High School, our aspiration is for all our staff and students to leave our school with practical wisdom gained through the teaching of intellectual, moral, civic and performance virtues.
We are a successful secondary school based in Brockworth, extremely close to junction 11a of the M5. The school has consistently been achieving excellent academic results over the past few years with the GCSE results of 2023 being in the top 1% of results in the country, as well as the highest results for any non-selective school in Gloucestershire. We opened our Sixth Form in September 2024 and are really excited to see what the next stage in the school’s journey will be. A crucial element of the school’s vision is ensuing that we are preparing our young people for the world of tomorrow. This role plays an essential part in achieving this.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our job’s portal.
Job Purpose
The role of the Designated Deputy Safeguarding Lead will support the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of all students within the school to ensure that they can attend lessons and thrive at school.
You will work alongside key members of the school, employees, young people, families and other agencies to:
- To ensure the school safeguarding systems are rigorous, robust, easy to use and impactful
- To follow up on each safeguarding concern that has been raised by staff
- To work closely with the attendance team, SENDCo and Senior Leadership Team ensuring that students don’t fall through a gap
- To develop and maintain a culture of safety and vigilance in the school
- To have due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people in accordance with the Child Protections/Safeguarding and Inclusion policies
Main responsibilities:
- Ensure the school systems for monitoring, tracking and following up on safeguarding concerns are rigorously implemented and of high quality which is flagged by members of staff
- Reinforce the high levels of expectations of vigilance around safeguarding, delivering staff training where it is either statutory or necessary
- To lead in the corporate responsibility for, and commitment to the safeguarding and promotion of the well-being and self-discipline of all students
- To ensure safeguarding tracking systems are utilised, constantly reviewed and improved
- To engage with local and national discourse on safeguarding and ensure the school policies are updated annually in line with guidance including the Greenshaw Learning Trust safeguarding policy and to ensure that parents/carers, governors and staff are aware of; have access to the policy
- To engage with the school culture, regularly walking the school and developing an understanding of the impact of student safety on teaching and learning
- Greet students each morning
- To work closely with the Local Authority to ensure that referrals are promptly and appropriately responded to, and to re-refer where necessary
- Develop the school’s relationship with the Local Authority, ensuring we utilise all existing support in improving attendance and ensuring the safety of the students
- To hold legal responsibility for dealing with safeguarding issues, providing advice and responding to concerns
- Work with the various communities within Gloucestershire to build sound communication and trust
- To develop an understanding of local thresholds, assessments procedures and conference structures
- To provide data updates for SLT when required
- To be flexible and agile in responding to emerging need in the community
- To support teachers fulfilling their mandatory reporting duty regarding FGM
- To ensure the school meets all statutory requirements regarding safeguarding
- To maintain accurate and confidential child protection files for relevant students
- To facilitate external agencies working with students in school; without missing lessons unless in an emergency
- To understand and promote the link between positive mental health, attendance and engagement in school
- To always work with a view towards having all students in school; lessons and learning
- To be available during school hours to respond to safeguarding concerns but at times may be required to take action outside of school hours
- Liaise with parents/carers in relation to attendance, behaviour, safeguarding, social and emotional issues, internal and external exclusion and other occasions as required
- To perform particular assigned duties at the reasonable direction of the Headteacher or their designated representative(s)
- To act as part of the on-call system
You will need:
- Educated to at least 5 GCSE Grade 5/C standard (or equivalent) in English and Mathematics
- A good relevant education to A Level or equivalent
- Level 3 Child Protection qualification (in date)
- Proven successful experience working with or caring for children in any setting
- Commitment to ensuring a culture of vigilance within the school community
- Experience of working with data tracking and data management systems
- An in depth understanding of the local community and its perceived challenges
- An understanding, or willingness to learn, about local authority practices regarding safeguarding
- An understanding of local authority assessments procedures, thresholds for identification of abuse, and case conference practices
What the school offers its staff
What’s in it for you:
- Professional development and career progression
- Generous pension scheme
- Blue Light Card
- Eligibility for Teacher Art Pass (teaching staff only)
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym Discounts
- Free eye tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Being part of a great team and expanding organisation
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people therefore this appointment will be subject to vetting, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Applying for the job
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About Henley Bank High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 876 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Henley Bank High School website
- Email address
- jhowells@henleybankhighschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01452 863372
Henley Bank High School is a 11 – 16 mixed comprehensive secondary school and is situated in Brockworth, Gloucester. We currently have 750 students on roll, with staff providing teaching, pastoral care and other support across the school. We had our first Ofsted inspection in June 2022 and were extremely proud of the outcome which was good in all categories. We are also extremely proud of the results our Year 11 students have achieved and the dedication that they and our staff have put in to achieve this is outstanding.
At Henley Bank High School, our aspiration is for all our staff and students to leave our school with practical wisdom gained through the teaching of intellectual, moral, civic and performance virtues. We build character implicitly, through our world class curriculum, teaching and learning in the classroom and explicitly through our Legacy Programme and Pastoral Systems. We aim to guide our students in becoming well rounded citizens of the future who can lead with honesty, integrity and resilience. The importance we place on this has been recognised through the school being awarded the Character Kitemark accreditation. Our Legacy programme and values of Ambition, Creativity, Confidence, Determination and Respect are the foundations of our Character Education programme.
All students have an entitlement to a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum. We believe that all students with additional needs should be taught wherever possible, with their peers in mainstream classes by subject specialists who use a range of teaching methods and strategies to develop students' knowledge, skills and understanding. Henley Bank High School was the winner of the NASEN Award for Secondary Provision which demonstrates the value that we place on our support provided within the classroom across all subjects within the school.
As a school, we really celebrate being a team and a ‘family’. This is crucial to us to ensure collaboration and support as well as ensuring that staff, students, parents/carers and the wider community feel invested in improving the school and the chances of success for our students. A huge amount of work has gone into developing this school over the last few years and we are so excited to welcome new members of staff to help continue this development, as well as bring their own ideas and enthusiasm.
We are ambitious about diversity and inclusion and very much look forward to receiving applications from candidates whose personal qualities and values reflect those in the person specification and whose experiences also place them in a strong position to deliver the challenges set out in the job description. We encourage applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, religion, belief, or race.
Arranging a visit to Henley Bank High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jhowells@henleybankhighschool.co.uk.
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