Operational Designated Safeguarding Lead
Bodmin College, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 1DD10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Subject to pre-employment checks being completed
Closing date
27 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 November 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
- £31,136.00 - £38,821.00 Annually (Actual) I Grade
Operational Designated Safeguarding Lead job summary
Bodmin College is an energetic, warm and welcoming school. Our mission is to ensure that every child experiences a great education that enables every student to live a life of choice and boundless opportunities. This summer, Bodmin College achieved its best ever set of GCSE results demonstrating rapid improvement and reflecting the determination of the whole Bodmin College team in ensuring success for every student.
Central to this journey is our unwavering commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. We are now seeking a passionate, skilled and dedicated Operational Designated Safeguarding Lead to join our team and lead our safeguarding team, ensuring our school is a safe and nurturing environment where every young person can thrive.
We are looking for someone who can:
- Lead our safeguarding team, making decisions, co-ordinating our work with multi-agencies and communicating effectively with wider school staff, parents and carers.
- Be a key point of contact for staff, students, and families, offering guidance and support when concerns arise.
- Help embed a culture of vigilance, care, and high expectations in safeguarding practice across the school.
- Liaise effectively with the Designated Safeguarding Lead and senior leadership team
We are looking for someone who:
- Has a passion for safeguarding and child protection and ideally experience within a school or children’s services setting.
- Is a strong communicator, able to build trust and positive relationships with staff, students, and families.
- Is organised, resilient, and calm under pressure, with excellent attention to detail.
- Is deeply committed to ensuring that every child is safe, supported, and able to achieve their potential.
If you would like to enquire further about the role, please contact Kym O'Mara, Deputy Headteacher and Designated Safeguarding Lead komara@bodmin.celtrust.org
Cornwall Education Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of safer recruitment checks and references including an enhanced DBS check.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Bodmin College is committed to the care and wellbeing of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to provide an enhanced DBS disclosure
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Bodmin College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1438 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bodmin College website
Bodmin College is a large 11-19 establishment (with Area Resource Base - ARB) providing, extensive, high quality education and care. We maintain high standards of achievement and traditional values within a disciplined and caring environment. Students are encouraged to enjoy their education, to develop respect for others and, through assuming responsibility, to develop as reliable and mature individuals ready to take an active role in adult life.
Our College is characterised by its vision of, ‘striving for excellence by putting the learner first’. We aim, in all that we do, to put students at the centre of our decision making processes and at the heart of our four key objectives which are:
• To improve the attainment and progress of all students in all subjects
• To improve the educational opportunities for all students in all subjects
• To improve the quality of the learning experience for all students in all subjects
• To assist and work in partnership with parents and carers to improve students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
This vision and our objectives are underpinned by an ethos in which we expect everyone, ‘to be kind, be polite, to be honest and to work to the very best of their ability.
With notable success as a finalists in the UK Social Mobility Awards for two consecutive years, we pride ourselves on opening doors, creating opportunity and raising aspirations.
More recently, our journey with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust has seen our committed involvement in ‘The Framework for Excellence. A journey towards a world-class education system’. Within this structure, assessment has been robust and challenging, yet one in which we have been successfully recognised as providing ‘exceptional education’ through our ‘principled curriculum design’, ‘leadership through moral purpose’ and in our ‘climate for learning’ (SSAT, 2017). We have received national recognition for raising aspirations, removing barriers to social mobility and opening up world-class opportunities to our students.
Bodmin College has recently been invited to participate in the ‘Connect the Classroom’ scheme through the DfE. This scheme will see a significant investment in the IT infrastructure within the college to improve WiFi and connectivity throughout the college campus.
In addition, the college has also been successful in the exciting School Rebuilding Programme which will see another significant level of investment to improve the buildings on our site. We are hopeful that this award will assist us in continuing to develop the learning environment for all our students and staff. It is a long term project which will help us to deliver our vision for excellent education in the local area.
We achieve this only through the dedication, commitment, passion and hard work of our staff. Our staff body are valued and cared for and their wellbeing, professional development and input are important to us.
Please note that Bodmin College is not a sponsoring organisation. Therefore the successful applicant must already possess the right to work in the UK or be able to secure the right to work in the UK independently.
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