Operational Designated Safeguarding Lead
Pencalenick School, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 1TE10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
2 September 2025
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 Hours per week Monday to Friday. 52 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,965
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you a passionate and experienced safeguarding professional ready to make a meaningful impact in a specialist education setting? Pencalenick School is seeking an Operational Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) to take the lead in ensuring the highest standards of safeguarding and child protection for our pupils with communication and interaction needs. You will play a central role in building and sustaining a safeguarding culture that is proactive, reflective, and rooted in the specific contextual needs of our learners.
What the school offers its staff
Why Pencalenick?
- Join a dedicated and values-driven team in a highly regarded special school
- Help shape a responsive, child-centred safeguarding culture
- Be part of a wider Multi-Academy Trust (Special Partnership Trust) with opportunities for collaboration and growth
- Make a difference in the lives of neurodiverse young people and their families
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding children and the successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Applicants should also be aware that an online search will be undertaken for all shortlisted candidates.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to secretary@pencalenick.org
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Pencalenick School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 16
- School size
- 195 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Pencalenick School website
- Email address
- secretary@pencalenick.org
- Phone number
- 01872520385
Pencalenick School is a vibrant and progressive SEN school based in Cornwall providing high quality education and support for pupils aged 11-16 with complex learning difficulties and disabilities. Pencalenick School also has the benefit of four outreach Area Resource Bases (ARBs) which are based within mainstream schools at Budehaven, Brannel, Falmouth and Mount Charles. Two of our ARBs offer primary provision and two offer secondary provision.
Pencalenick School and the ARBs are members of the Special Partnership Trust, an ambitious and inspiring collaboration of specialist provision in Cornwall, with a focus on excellence in learning for everyone.
Arranging a visit to Pencalenick School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email secretary@pencalenick.org.
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