Safeguarding and Attendance Officer (DDSL)
Aston Academy, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S26 4SFThis job expired on 7 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
27 June 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
- £27,004.00 - £29,002.00 Annually (Actual) Band G, Spinal Points 19 - 23
Safeguarding and Attendance Officer (DDSL) job summary
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, conscientious Safeguarding and Attendance Officer, who, under the direction of the Vice Principal, and day to day guidance of the Designated Safeguarding Lead, will ensure effective safeguarding in the role of Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and work closely the attendance team.
Working 37 hours per week, term time only - (hours to be between 8.00am – 4.00pm Monday to Friday) Including working 2 out of 5 INSET days each academic year as directed, with availability to work any or all of remaining 3 INSET days at short notice should the need arise, and for which additional payment will be made.
The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the safeguarding, pastoral and attendance teams to drive higher attendance and ensure the safety and welfare of children in our care. The post is suitable for someone with experience working with secondary-aged in a pastoral, safeguarding and/or attendance capacity, who is able to demonstrate the positive impact they have had on the educational lives of young people and supported them to achieve their full potential.
The successful candidates will:
- Work with the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) in all matters related to safeguarding, and act as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL)
- Work with the Attendance Officer, EWOs and other colleagues to drive student attendance up, providing targeted support to identified students
- Provide pastoral support to identified students
- To carry out duties/patrol, as required
- To liaise and seek involvement as appropriate from parents/carers, teachers, inclusion staff and other agencies in relation to the welfare of students.
- Contribute, as required, to consultation evenings, staff meetings, assemblies, celebration evenings and other activities
- Monitor student attendance, punctuality, praise and cause for concern in line with ‘Code of conduct’, ‘Behaviour and Attendance’ and all other relevant policies, and ensure appropriate action is taken when required
- Create a positive climate where students can achieve and reach their full potential
- Monitoring of students during the school lunchtime period
- Be well-motivated, professional and flexible
- Have a can-do approach
- Have good communication skills
- To be able to work as a team
You will be based at Aston Academy, however the role may, on occasion, involve working at other academies within the trust.
Safeguarding
ACET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All applicants should read our safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites.
It is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children. This post will involve regular contact with children, and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates to junior academies. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.
Equality
ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job.
We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.
Further information about the job
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.
About Aston Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1508 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Aston Academy website
School location
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