Head of Safeguarding & Compliance

Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust, Middlesbrough, TS4 3JW

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  7 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  24 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 per week, Term Time only plus 4 weeks
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £54,495 - £58,947 pro rata (actual salary: £50,701 - £54,843)

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and experienced Head of Safeguarding and Compliance to provide strategic leadership and direction across all our schools, from early years through to post-16 provision.

This is a key leadership role, ensuring our Trust maintains the highest standards of safeguarding practice and pastoral support in line with statutory requirements and the mission of NPCAT.

The successful candidate will have:

• Extensive experience in safeguarding leadership, ideally within a multi-agency.

• A deep understanding of current safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance, and best practice.

• Strong knowledge of Early Help, multi-agency working and pastoral care systems.

• A proven ability to lead, influence and support colleagues across multiple schools, ensuring a consistent culture of vigilance and care.

• Excellent communication, analytical, and organisational skills, with the capacity to manage complex information and make informed decisions.

• A commitment to upholding and promoting the values and ethos of a Catholic education environment.

What the school offers its staff

Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust is a family of 32 primary schools, 6 secondary schools and 2 Sixth Form colleges. With 12,300 pupils and 1,600 plus staff, the Trust is now one of the largest Catholic Multi Academy Trust in the UK.

What we offer:

• The opportunity to shape, lead and influence safeguarding strategy and compliance across a family of schools, driving continuous improvement and best practice.

• A Trust that places children’s safety, welfare, and spiritual formation at the heart of everything it does, reflecting our mission to educate with love, integrity, and faith.

• A collaborative and supportive Trust team, working closely with school leaders and central staff to ensure safeguarding excellence across all settings.

• Commitment to professional development and leadership progression.

Additional benefits include access to:

• Vivup - Lifestyle savings - store discounts

• Vivup - Discounted gym membership

• Vivup - Cycle scheme

• Full wellbeing package

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Head of Safeguarding & Compliance - NPCAT - Closing Date 7.11.25.pdf - 2.28 MB (opens in new tab)

About Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust website
• Email address: chambers.r@npcat.org.uk
• Phone number: 01642 529200
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/nicholas-postgate-catholic-academy-trust

Head office location

Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed

Find more school jobs in Middlesbrough