Director of Safeguarding, Attendance and Behaviour
Wave Multi Academy Trust, St Austell, PL25 4FD13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 26 or sooner
Closing date
23 February 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
10 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £75,048.00 - £84,699
Pay scale
- L16 - L21
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking an exceptional strategic leader to join our Trust as the Director of Safeguarding, Attendance and Behaviour — a role with responsibility for shaping and securing the highest standards of safeguarding, behaviour, attendance and pastoral practice across all our academies.
As amember of the Trust’s leadership team, the postholder will provide decisive leadership and professional oversight, ensuring our statutory duties are met and that inclusive, child‑centred practice is consistently embedded. This role carries significant responsibility for safeguarding our most vulnerable pupils, driving improvements in culture and practice, and enabling every learner to feel safe, supported and able to thrive.
The Director will lead the Trust‑wide strategic development, implementation and evaluation of safeguarding, behaviour and attendance, setting clear expectations and holding leaders to account for impact. Acting as the Trust’s professional authority in these areas, they will advise the CEO, Executive Team and Trustees, maintain oversight of Trust‑level risk, and ensure robust assurance and reporting.
With strategic leadership spanning safeguarding, child protection, behaviour frameworks, attendance strategy, inclusion and vulnerable learners, this role offers the opportunity to influence practice at scale and drive meaningful, system‑wide improvement.
The successful applicant will be someone who embodies ourTrust values, has diverse experience, as well as a passion for working with young people with additional needs.
For a full list of duties, please see the job description below.
Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and we may carry out an online check.
We may close this vacancy early as we review applications as they are received, to ensure you are considered for this role, please do not wait for the deadline to submit your application.
What the school offers its staff
Health & Wellbeing
Pension
Training & Development
Employee Assistance Programme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Free Parking
Further information about the job
Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.
We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.
We Aim To
- Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
- Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
- Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
- We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
- Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
- Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.
Commitment to safeguarding
Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online checks may be carried out.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Wave Multi Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- recruitment@waveedu.org
- Phone number
- 01209 211525
Wave Multi Academy Trust (MAT) comprises of nine regional alternative provision academies, two medical academies in Devon and Cornwall and a special academy in Devon for pupils with social communication and interaction needs.
We provide support to enable pupils to reintegrate into mainstream or special schools; or in the last four terms of compulsory education, integration into the world of work or further education.
Arranging a visit to Wave Multi Academy Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@waveedu.org.
Head office location
Similar jobs nearby
Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed