Director of Safeguarding

Emmanuel Schools Foundation, Blyth, NE24 2SY

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  4 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  5 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £54,000.00 - £58,000.00 Annually (Actual) Full time, whole time. LGPS.

Director of Safeguarding job summary

Emmanuel Schools Foundation is a multi-academy trust of six schools, across seven sites across the north-east and Yorkshire. Our schools are based in Blyth, Northumberland, Gateshead, Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Thorne, Doncaster.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Director of Safeguarding will lead and manage inclusive safeguarding strategies across the Multi Academy Trust. This role is pivotal in ensuring the well-being of, and an inclusive and consistent teaching and learning experience for, all students in a safe and welcoming environment where everyone is Valued, Challenged and Inspired. The post-holder will work collaboratively with Trust Officers, school leaders, staff, and external agencies to create a safe and supportive environment for all students.

The Director of Safeguarding will work in a hybrid fashion, from a flexible location within the Trust geography with the expectation of regular, perhaps frequent, travel to each of our schools.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop and implement comprehensive and inclusive safeguarding strategies for the Trust.
• Operate as the DSL for the Trust and support Principals in their line management of DSLs

• Ensure compliance with all statutory requirements and best practices related to safeguarding.

• Provide expert advice and support to Trust Officers, school leaders, and staff on safeguarding matters.

• Lead on the development and implementation of consistent policies and procedures related to safeguarding across the Trust.

• Oversee the training and development of staff in safeguarding practices.

• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of safeguarding practices across the Trust.

• Monitor and evaluate systems and approaches in relation to safeguarding and inclusion in the context of the distinctive Christian ethos of the Trust.

Join us and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:

• Defined benefit pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free parking
• Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
• Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
• Competitive holiday entitlement for support staff (minimum 25 days, plus bank 8 holidays per annum, pro-rated for part-time post-holders)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)

The Emmanuel Schools Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All appointments are subject to enhanced DBS checks and satisfactory references.

For more information about this post please review the Director of Safeguarding Applicant Information.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Emmanuel Schools Foundation

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/emmanuel-schools-foundation

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