Designated Safeguarding Lead

Northfleet School for Girls, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 8AQ

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  22 May 2026 at 4pm

• Date listed

  6 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £50,302.00 - £56,410.00 Annually (Actual)

Designated Safeguarding Lead job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Designated Safeguarding Lead (non-teaching) to join our Senior Leadership Team in our oversubscribed and successful school.

In this role you will work closely with the Headteacher to ensure an effective safeguarding culture through systems and practices, strong training across staff, student and parent bodies and to ensure that safeguarding concerns are effectively addressed with close monitoring of impact. You will lead and be supported by an experienced and dedicated wider Safeguarding Team.

This is a permanent post for 37 hours per week and 40 weeks per year (term time plus 1 weeks during the school holidays). The working pattern is 08:00-16:00 Monday to Thursday and 08:00-15:30 on a Friday.

The successful candidate will ideally have significant experience in a school safeguarding role or have a social work/care, welfare, police background.

Why work at our school?

We benefit from very low staff turnover, with the majority of appointments being due to expansion roles. Staff feedback shows the following reasons to work at our school:

• Excellent student behaviour; our students enjoy working with us
• A positive and supportive culture amongst the staff team including an active staff wellbeing group and approachable leadership team
• A dedication to career development through internal and externally recognised training programmes.
• A school with excellent facilities and continued future developments, including:
• Fitness suite, with free access for staff outside school hours
• Community Farm, with a whole range of animals from bearded dragon to pigs and alpaca’s!
• Art Gallery
• Recording studio
• Professional Performing Arts spaces
• New classroom block, new Science labs and a 3G pitch in place for Autumn 2026
• A highly generous approach to staff absence for personal reasons such as family events or those special treat occasions
• Excellent IT facilities including interactive display screens in all classrooms, 1 to 1 laptop scheme and touchscreen staff laptops for all
• A rich and varied curriculum, including our 'Dream Big' days, IB World School status, our Be Training (Performing Arts) Academy and NSfG Academy in partnership with ST Sports
• Staff children receive higher priority for places (both Year 7 entry and in year waiting lists)

Please visit our website and see the attached documents for further information on the school and the role.

We welcome any candidate who may wish to visit for an informal tour or conversation in advance of applying. If you would like to take up this opportunity, please contact Mrs Annable to arrange.

Northfleet Schools for Girls is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS check. For any candidate who is shortlisted, an online search will be conducted in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025 statutory guidance.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

We reserve the right to withdraw this advert before the published closing date should a suitable candidate be appointed before. 

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

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.

Commitment to safeguarding

Northfleet School for Girls and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS check. For any candidate who is shortlisted, an online search will be conducted in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 statutory guidance.

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.

About Northfleet School for Girls

• School type: Local authority maintained schools, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1302 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Northfleet School for Girls website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/northfleet-school-for-girls

Northfleet School for Girls is a vibrant and caring school with a great community feel. Over recent years we have been growing rapidly (62% increase in student roll since 2017) and we believe this is down to the following key areas:

- A real passion to develop the whole student as well as achieve excellent academic progress
- A dedicated staffing team who really care and a clear commitment by leaders to staff wellbeing
- Great student behaviour and engagement, allowing staff and students to flourish

Our vision is that all students should "dream big and achieve" through the following:

- High expectations in all aspects of school life including uniform, attendance, behaviour and academic achievement
- Working together through truly valuing positive working relationships with staff, students and parents
- Enjoying the journey, we strongly believe that all involved in our community can enjoy being at our school and create lasting positive memories.

We are at a very exciting stage of realising our aspirational vision through the following:

- Very strong academic achievement, significantly above Kent similar school averages
- Continued oversubscription across school
- A key emphasis that we are not an exam factory, we seek to develop the whole person with equal importance to academic performance
- Valuing and developing our committed staff team through wellbeing support and further career opportunities
- A strong financial position allowing us to invest for the future

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