Safeguarding Admin Assistant (Maternity Cover)
Outwood Academy Ormesby, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, TS3 0RH11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
15 June 2026
Closing date
20 April 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
9 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 32 Hours Per Week, Monday to Friday, Term Time only + 5 days
Contract type
- Fixed term - Up to 12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
Actual salary
- £18,404.62 to £18,693.35
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you organised and ready to provide vital administrative and clerical assistance to our safeguarding team? Join us as a Safeguarding Admin Assistant, responsible for providing administrative support to the academy and specifically supporting the safeguarding team. This role requires providing confidential assistance and ensuring smooth internal operations.
Outwood Academy Ormesby seeks a confident, professional and motivated individual with strong administrative skills to take on this essential role in the academy. As a Safeguarding Admin Assistant, you will assist the safeguarding team in the key administrative functions associated with the ongoing health and welfare of students across the academy.
You will strive to ensure that the administration work, for the systems meant to keep children safe, remain airtight, organised, and compliant. You will be responsible for maintaining accurate, confidential and up-to-date documentation, acting as a professional point of contact, and liaising with key staff where necessary.
Furthermore, your role will also provide the essential operational support that enables the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads (DDSLs) to focus on high-level interventions and student welfare within the academy to keep our students safe.
What the school offers its staff
Thank you for your interest in the vacancy at Outwood Academy Ormesby in Middlesbrough.
As Principal, I'm extremely proud of our academy, where everyone is driven to help young people thrive and meet their full potential in one of the most deprived areas in the country. We are committed to the value that ‘every interaction counts’ and work relentlessly to transform students' lives and develop positive community relationships.
We seek colleagues who value a commitment to enriching student lives, collaboration, a growth mindset, and a relentless drive to ‘turn our best into our normal’.
As part of the Outwood Family, committed to transforming lives and raising standards, we would be delighted to welcome you to our team if you share our passion for improving the lives of young people and our wider community.
Outwood Grange Academies Trust supports colleagues through:
- A comprehensive induction and training process
- Automatic enrolment into an increasingly rare and valuable defined Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution rates
- Flexible family friendly policies from day one
- Enhanced occupational benefits available (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave) with no qualifying period
- Holidays: A minimum of 25 days plus bank holidays (this increases with length of service)
- A range of working patterns are available dependant upon the role
Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme which gives you and your family members free access to:
- Specialist information on a wide range of work-life issues
- Emotional support and counselling for a wide range of personal and work issues
- Legal guidance
- Financial guidance and debt counselling
- Child and dependent care support and advice
- Support for managers
We are also a wellbeing employer with a dedicated wellbeing strategy and menopause policy along with menopause champions based in our academies. Other benefits include:
- Free onsite parking
- Employee discounts such as competitively priced Synergy Car Leasing
- Access to various discount sites
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.
Applying for the job
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About Outwood Academy Ormesby
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 738 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Outwood Academy Ormesby website
- Email address
- h.murphy@ormesby.outwood.com
- Phone number
- 01642 452191
We are a welcoming and supportive academy, with a relentless determination to provide the very best education for every child. We place students at the centre of everything we do, with a focus on creating a culture of success and a positive climate for learning.
The Academy became part of the Outwood Family of Schools in 2015 and as a member of the Outwood Family we believe in putting Students First, raising standards and transforming lives.
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