Safeguarding and Attendance Lead
The Harbour School, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO2 8RADeadline is today
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
25 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
13 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Pastoral, health and welfare
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £35,939- £38,697 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
To be successful as a Safeguarding and Attendance lead, you should be someone with a deep understanding of local and national safeguarding and attendance guidelines and procedures. Top candidates will be excellent safeguarding and attendance practitioners, able to use their knowledge and skills to ensure our students receive the highest level of support and care. The ability to make the role your own and build strong relationships is essential.
What the school offers its staff
As a trust, our ethos is encompassed in our vision “Learning together in pursuit of happiness”. We put this into practice by ensuring:
- All decisions are made in the best interests of staff, students and families.
- High support, high challenge and evidence informed in everything we do.
- We work collaboratively and make team, not individual, decisions.
- We acknowledge our mistakes and use them to learn and improve.
- We are always open to learning and seeking new ideas.
Further details about the role
Safeguarding and Attendance Lead – The Bridge Campus at The Harbour School
37 hrs per week, Term time plus 1 week, Permanent
Salary: Grade H, £35,939- £38,697 per annum, pro rata to £31,515 – £33,934 per annum for term time plus 1 week working
Are you interested in becoming part of a pioneering Alternative Provision and SEMH school?
Do you want to work in an optimistic and motivating environment, supported by effective leadership at all levels?
Do you have the resilience to work in a dynamic, trauma-informed, relational environment, with students that have social, emotional, academic and mental health needs?
If so, we would be delighted to hear from you!
Our school is looking for an experienced, passionate Safeguarding & Attendance lead to fill the full-time role at the Bridge AP Campus. This is a challenging but very rewarding role where you will take on the ‘day to day’ responsibility for safeguarding, child protection and attendance for students in KS4. You will work closely with the Deputy Headteacher, Safeguarding and Attendance Manager, KS4 Phase leader, key multi agency partners and parent/ carers to ensure that our KS4 students at The Bridge Campus receive the highest levels of care and support.
Key responsibilities include:
- Ensure attendance (as directed by the Safeguarding & Attendance Manager, Phase Leader and/ or member of SLT) at Multi Agency meetings and ensure that outcomes are communicated via CPOMS and acted upon in a timely manner
- Work positively to ensure the best possible outcomes for students at The Bridge campus
- Use data effectively to monitor the impact of safeguarding and attendance interventions
- Attend Annual Reviews and other key reviews as required
- Be a part of the ‘on-call’ rota at The Bridge Campus
- Work flexibly where necessary
- Liaise with multi agency partners across the City to ensure they are fully informed of any issues that pertain to relevant and identified students.
To be successful as a Safeguarding and Attendance lead, you should be someone with a deep understanding of local and national safeguarding and attendance guidelines and procedures. Top candidates will be excellent safeguarding and attendance practitioners, able to use their knowledge and skills to ensure our students receive the highest level of support and care. The ability to make the role your own and build strong relationships is essential.
We are a multi-site organisation which includes our Bay Campus (including Primary at The Bay), The Bridge Campus, The Lighthouse Campus and the Vista Campus (including The Horizon Service) all based within the city of Portsmouth. We also have an Outreach Support Team and a Hospital tuition service based at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.
The Harbour School is an AP and SEMH school for students in Portsmouth. Our students range from year 5 up to year 11. We support students that have an EHCP for SEMH, those recovering from the trauma of permanent exclusion, those that unintentionally exclude themselves from education and children who cannot access school for medical reasons. At the Harbour school, we believe in a trauma-informed and relational approach to understanding behaviours in and out of the classroom. We believe in educational equity for all learners.
To become part of our journey developing the school further, please contactHR@deltaeducationtrust.com
Closing date: 25th April
Interview date: 13th May
If you have the passion and skills to support our students, we would love to hear from you. To apply, please complete ourSupport Staff Application Formand return it toHR@deltaeducationtrust.com. See ourSafeguarding & Attendance Lead – January 2025for further details on the role and ourTHS Safeguarding-Child-Protection-Policy-2024-2025.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Please ensure a full work history is completed in your application form including any gaps of employment. Applicants will be required to complete satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) check is required for this post prior to commencement. The Trust is an equal opportunities employer.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to HR@deltaeducationtrust.com
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Harbour School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 19
- School size
- 101 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Harbour School website
- Email address
- HR@deltaeducationtrust.com
The Harbour School is a special school for learners with Social, Emotional and/or Mental Health (SEMH) Needs and/or Medical Needs. The school operates from multiple sites situated across Portsmouth with provision extending beyond these physical locations.
As a trust, our ethos is encompassed in our vision “Learning together in pursuit of happiness”.
Arranging a visit to The Harbour School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@deltaeducationtrust.com.
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