Designated Safeguarding Lead

Crawley Green Infant School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU2 0RW

25 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  3 June 2024 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  15 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,535.00 Annually (FTE) Salary is L7

Designated Safeguarding Lead job summary

TITLE: Designated Safeguarding Lead

SCHOOL: Crawley Green Infant School

RESPONSIBLE TO: Headteacher

GRADE: L7

HOURS: 37 hours per week term time only

About this role: We are looking to employ a Designated safeguarding Lead to become part of our team and Crawley Green Infant School. This role is key to developing an effective safeguarding culture across the school. Taking the lead responsibility for all safeguarding and child protection matters arising at the school and supporting all other staff in dealing with any child protection concerns that may arise.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Managing Referrals:
• Raising Awareness:
• Preventing Radicalisation:
• Training
• Safer Recruitment:
• Audits, evidence and reporting:
• Pupil Outcomes:
• Working with others being a point of contact with the three safeguarding partners. Working proactively with key staff within the school and on matters relating to safety and safeguarding.

You will need to be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, equal opportunities, health and safety and security, confidentiality, and data protection, be aware that all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop and participate in training and other learning activities as required and to participate in appraisal and professional development.

Please see the attached Job description for further information and the person specification

All support staff are part of a whole school team. They are required to support the values and ethos of the school and school priorities as defined in the School Improvement Plan. This will mean focussing on the needs of colleagues, parents and pupils and being flexible in a busy pressurised environment.

If this post sounds interesting and you're ready for something different in a warm, supportive and well-equipped working environment, please get in touch with us. Visits are warmly welcomed.

Please visit our website to find out more about us:

www.crawleygreen-inf.luton.sch.uk

We warmly welcome and advise prospective candidates to visit our school. To arrange a visit, please contact the school office on 01582 724267 or email on admin@crawleygreeninfant.co.uk

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. CVs will not be accepted for any posts based in schools.

Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Crawley Green Infant School hold the right to close the advert early in the event of a suitable candidate being found.,

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

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Using the application form

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

Visas cannot be sponsored.

About Crawley Green Infant School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 236 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Crawley Green Infant School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/crawley-green-infant-school (opens in new tab)

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