Inclusion & Safeguarding Officer
John Smeaton Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS15 8TA128 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
31 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
22 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 Hours Per Week, Term Time Only + 5 Days
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- SO1 (SCP 23–25) £33,336 - £35,235 Actual Salary: £28,824 - £30,439
What skills and experience we're looking for
John Smeaton Academy are seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Inclusion & Safeguarding Officer, this role is of great importance to our work as an Academy. Under the direction of the Inclusion and Safeguarding Leader – the successful candidate will support the day-to-day inclusion and safeguarding systems and processes across the Academy, ensuring total consistency, efficiency and rigour in approach. They will also provide high quality mentoring to students within the Academy, taking ownership for the success of the interventions provided.
The ideal applicant will have:
- A relevant Level 3 Qualification, or willing to work towards.
- Full clean UK Driving Licence.
- Knowledge of EHCP & SEMH Processes
What the school offers its staff
As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:
- Membership to a local government pension scheme.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
- Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
- £2k Cycle to work scheme.
Further details about the role
On 1 September 2021 John Smeaton Academy joined The GORSE Academies Trust, an organisation renowned for excellence in education. The trust has a nationally recognised track record of transforming inadequate schools and making them great again, or for the first time in their history. Consequently, this role represents an incredibly exciting opportunity for any candidate who is eager to be a part of an organisation that seeks to secure the very highest educational standard for every student. We are determined to ensure students at John Smeaton Academy are inspired to ‘Secure the Gift of Choice’ and we expect any successful candidate to be passionate and tenacious in their quest for all round academic and pastoral excellence.
A unique opportunity to be part of the rapid transformation of an academy, and its wider community.
In 2019 John Smeaton Academy’s performance data placed it as the lowest performing secondary school in the city of Leeds and one of the worst performing in the country. It is fair to say that John Smeaton Academy was a school whose performance for many years was unconvincing, resulting in the community losing confidence in the school.
The academy has already improved significantly as evidenced by parent/carer and student feedback alongside the day-to-day experience of the students.
If you would like to know more about John Smeaton Academy, please visit our website atwww.johnsmeatonacademy.org.uk.
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.
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About John Smeaton Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 604 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- John Smeaton Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- enquiries@johnsmeatonacademy.org.uk
School location
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