Director of Safeguarding
Djanogly City Academy, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG7 6ND10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
8 May 2025 at 10am
Date listed
24 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £56,316.00 - £63,815.00 Annually (FTE) L.6 - L.11
Director of Safeguarding job summary
The role of Director of Safeguarding and senior DSL is to have oversight of the procedures and practices to ensure the effective safeguarding of our scholars. The Director of Safeguarding will manage and plan the work of the Family support workers and DSL teamwork with scholars and their families as part of a team under the direction of the Principal and Vice Principal of the academy.
At Djanogly Learning Trust, we recognise that every child is unique. In celebrating their differences we recognise what they have in common, they all deserve an education that gives them the best opportunity to succeed and prosper. This is our vision. We know that the care, encouragement and protection of families around them helps children to thrive. Djanogly Learning Trust is one such family.
We are looking for someone who:
- Puts children at the heart of everything they do
- Is an inspiring leader with a proven track record in leading school improvement
- Is able to prioritise and delegate effectively
- Has experience in managing the performance of staff and cultivating highly motivated teams
- Is someone who recognises and rewards excellent practice
- Is a strong communicator, who is personable, caring and passionate with high expectations of themselves and others
- Is committed to their own continued professional development and providing skilled mentoring and coaching to other potential future leaders
In return we offer:
- A culture of trust, where all contributions are recognised and respected
- A skilled senior leadership team with a strong ethos of mutual support and challenge
- Children who engage well and want to learn
- An embedded whole trust commitment to professional development
- A skilled and experienced central service team who proactively support our academies, enabling educationalists to focus on our core purpose – teaching and learning
- A real commitment to work-life balance – we remember we are human beings first and educators second
- Great Trust benefits including: free parking, company paid healthcare, travel discounts and excellent training and development opportunities
Visits to the academy are encouraged! If you wish to arrange a visit, discover more about this exciting opportunity, need any further information or you would like to have an informal discussion, please contact our People and Culture Assistant on c.vesey@djanogly.org
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 are not accepted.
About Djanogly City Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1192 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Djanogly City Academy website
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