Director of Primary & Trust Safeguarding Lead

University Of Lincoln Academy Trust, Spalding, PE12 7PU

44 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2027

• Closing date

  25 September 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  12 August 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £96,694.00 - £109,291.00 Annually (FTE)

Director of Primary & Trust Safeguarding Lead job summary

We believe that this is a unique opportunity to serve a local community who value and hold our schools and our trust in high regard for the work that it does. The work of our schools is critical to helping lift aspirations in the local area but by also creating opportunities for our young people to flourish. Above all you will be committed to our three values of Ambition, Inclusion and Integrity, demonstrating these in your work throughout.

As the Director of Primary and Trust Safeguarding Lead, you will also be part of the UoLAT Executive Team and will play a critical part in the strategic direction of the trust and all of its schools, helping to drive change and have genuine influence at scale.

There are lots of great staff to support the journey for improvement. The successful candidate will bring a strong understanding of assurance mechanisms, safeguarding experience and a desire to help accelerate outcomes by supporting staff development across all levels. This is what our staff and our pupils deserve.

The successful candidate will be able to lead teams and develop wider relationships too. We hope that we will be able to grow in the primary sector as we move forward whilst safeguarding all our pupils. The successful applicant will play a critical part in that development, by demonstrating that our schools are doing well and that we have developed the capacity of our teams, and their skills, to help support others in a meaningful way as part of that system leadership.

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

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

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 University Of Lincoln Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/university-of-lincoln-academy-trust

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