Designated Safeguarding Manager
The UCL Academy, Camden, NW3 3AQ7 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
2 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Monday to Friday 8.14-4.30pm 50 minutes lunch Part time (no less than 3 days) considered
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £40,342.83
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you an ambitious and enthusiastic individual who enjoys working with young individuals from a range of different backgrounds?
Do you have the experience to be responsible for safeguarding and child protection?
Would you love to work in an innovative, collaborative and innovative school?
About the role
The UCL Academy is seeking a committed, conscientous and passionate individual to join our pastoral team in the newly created role of Designated Safeguarding Manager. You will support the Leadership team to provide a safe environment in which students can develop and learn. You will take the day-to-day lead on safeguarding issues within the school, working closely with the senior leader responsible for inclusion and safeguarding.
Main duties will include:
- Ensuring full compliance with statutory safeguarding and child protection responsibilities;
- Maintain and develop safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring that all staff are well-trained and confident in their responsibilities;
- Lead meetings on behalf of the Academy in cases where the school initiates a MASH or LADO referral;
- Liaise with external agencies such as social services, CAMHS, and the local authority;
- Line manage the Academy's Familiy Liaision Officer and School Welfare Lead.
Candidates who fit the job description but are looking to work part time (no less than 3 days) are still invited to apply.
About the Academy:
The UCL Academy is sponsored by UCL, a world-class, multi-faculty, research-led university. UCL's vision is an innovative Academy for pupils aged 11 to 18. We are a comprehensive, co-educational, non-denominational, fully inclusive and an active member of the Camden family of schools.
Working with our Sponsor, University College London, we have built an inspiring Academy which supports young people to develop as learners, and as ‘whole people’. The UCL Academy is an exciting, stimulating place to learn, with a curriculum which focuses on problem-solving, skills development and ‘real world’ issues. Our core aim is to provide the highest quality teaching in a first-rate learning environment, encouraging all students to be happy and to strive to be the very best.
What the school offers its staff
- State-of-the-art classroom technology – including our unique Superstudios, subject specialism suites and demonstration; theatres for interactive teaching talks by visiting academics;
- Unlimited access to opportunities for self-development and intensive weekly Continuing Professional Learning;
- Longer holidays and more Academy planning days than normal INSET arrangements;
- A whole school wellbeing strategy and designated Academy Wellbeing Lead;
- An exclusive partnership with UCL where teaching staff have access to unrivalled University libraries and resources and to work within our connected curriculum;
- Suitable IT equipment for all teaching staff;
- A generous health care plan, including reimbursement for optical, dental, physiotherapy and a range of other areas, 24/7 GP access;
- A free Employee Assistance Programme that offers free private counselling, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and discounted membership at over 2,000 gyms nationwide;
- A sheltered bike storage facility for those who wish to cycle to work and a generous Cycle to Work scheme.
- An ambitious and forward thinking ethos.
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
-Health check and/or occupational health referral
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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About The UCL Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1095 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The UCL Academy website
- Email address
- hr@uclacademy.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02074493080
The UCL Academy is sponsored by UCL, a world-class, multifaculty, research-led university. UCL's vision is an innovative Academy for pupils aged 11 to 18. We are a comprehensive, co-educational, non-denominational, fully inclusive and an active member of the Camden family of schools.
The Academy is an exciting place for young people to learn and develop as individuals. It offers a high quality, broad and balanced curriculum which is appropriate for pupils of all abilities, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, social background or faith. Most importantly, it provides an environment in which all pupils are supported to achieve their full potential, and to contribute positively to the community in which they live. The Academy strives for excellence in teaching and learning across the curriculum; develop strong specialisms in mathematics, science and, with a focus on modern foreign languages, provide an education which prepares pupils for "global citizenship". Strong links with community, scientific and cultural organisations, as well as with UCL, are particular features of the Academy.
The UCL Academy is an exciting, stimulating place to learn, with a curriculum which focuses on problem-solving, skills development and 'real world' issues and ideas. Students have the opportunity to undertake extensive project work, and to participate in community activities as well as internships and international exchanges.
The sponsor is keen that the Academy should support all students to develop responsibility for their learning, ensuring that they continue to be challenged and stimulated by their learning throughout their time at the Academy.
The UCL Academy has a strong focus on community and belonging. Students are members of both a house (the Academy has five) and a mentor group: a small group of students, who meet together regularly and who are 'mentored' by a member of staff. Houses provide a focus for intra-school activities; mentor groups ensure that students build strong support networks, including with their staff mentor to enable them to tackle the challenges young people encounter during their Academy lives.
UCL, as sponsor, provides a comprehensive programme of activities and support to enhance teaching at the UCL Academy. This includes lectures and masterclasses from UCL academics in subjects across the curriculum; visits to UCL; and access to the university's extensive resources, including laboratories and libraries. There is also advice for Key Stage 4 students and Sixth Form students on routes into further and higher education, including support with the higher education entry process from UCL admissions tutors, and contact with UCL students acting as tutors and mentors.
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