Safeguarding and Welfare Manager

Thames Park Secondary School, Grays, RM17 5FP

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 25

• Closing date

  9 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  23 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,626.00 - £32,490.00 Annually (Actual) Thurrock Band D Point 20 - 25

Safeguarding and Welfare Manager job summary

Safeguarding and Welfare Manager

37 hours per week, Monday – Thursday 8:00am – 4:00pm, Friday 8:00am – 3:30pm

30-minute unpaid lunch break

38 weeks per year, term time plus inset days

Salary: Band D Point 20 – 25

(£28,626.46 - £32,490.23 actual salary per annum)

Start date: September 2025

A great opportunity has arisen to join the Pastoral Team at Thames Park Secondary School. We are looking to recruit a Safeguarding and Welfare Manager for September 2025. The start date is negotiable to an earlier date if the successful candidate can start sooner. The successful candidate will contribute to the provision of effective safeguarding and child protection throughout the school by supporting the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL).

The Safeguarding and Welfare Manager will demonstrate the highest levels of commitment and compliance to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. They will also effectively Line Manage the Student Wellbeing Officer.

Key responsibilities include:

Leading safeguarding practices and triaging concerns in line with statutory guidance.

Managing referrals and coordinating support for vulnerable students, including mental health and wellbeing.

Liaising with external agencies and attending multi-agency meetings to ensure effective protection.

Supporting staff with training, guidance, and promoting a whole-school culture of safeguarding. package required.

The successful candidate will:

Be passionate, motivated, and have excellent communication skills

Be able to multitask and stay calm under pressure and remain positive

Have GCSE Maths & English – 4-9 or equivalent and strong IT skills

Have excellent written skills with the ability to multi-task

Why apply for Thames Park Secondary School?

Opened in 2020, we moved into our £25 million state-of-the-art facilities in 2022. We are committed to providing an outstanding education, with a strong emphasis on digital learning, ensuring every student has access to a Chromebook to enhance their learning experience. Our approach focuses on both academic success and student well-being—physically, mentally, and spiritually. We uphold co-operative values of self-help, responsibility, equity, equality, democracy, and solidarity.

As an inclusive, community-focused school, we believe success is built on trust, respect, care, and hard work, measuring achievement beyond exam results to recognize the full potential of every student.

In return for your hard work, you will receive:

Relocation package of up to £8,000 where applicable for new employees renting or buying a property

Two-week October half term

National Conditions of Service

Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme

Access to the Employee Assistance Programme and on-site Gym

Support from highly experienced SLT members, the wider trust network and collaboration with our two other secondary schools

Wider support network for all staff including managing workloads and work-life balance

Career progression throughout the Trust, with the ability to progress in other schools

Recognition of continuous service 

Excellent CPD opportunities through the school and the trust

Excellent behaviour management policy to support all staff

If you feel you could make a positive contribution to the school, and you have the passion, drive and commitment to work with us to make all aspects of our school outstanding, please apply now or you can request a visit of the school or for more information speak to Ayshen Uluhan hr@osborne.coop or call 01375 648944.

Thames Park is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on our formal application form, CVs will not be accepted. This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references. Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer. As a Trust, we recognise the value of and seek to achieve a diverse workforce. We welcome applications from all backgrounds. Please refer to our recruitment & selection policy statement (www.osborne.coop/working-with-us) for more information.

Closing date: Monday 9th June 2025 - Midday

Interview date: Friday 13th June 2025

Please note: we may hold interviews as and when applications are received, and we reserve the right to offer to a candidate before the closing date. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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.

Applying for the job

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About Thames Park Secondary School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 566 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Thames Park Secondary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/thames-park-secondary-school

Thames Park Secondary School. opened to Year 7 pupils in central Grays in September 2020 as a brand new school. Grays is a vibrant, dynamic, rewarding and inspiring place to work, and enjoys excellent transport links. The area is undergoing large scale redevelopment in Europe as part of the Thames Gateway Development. We are part of a £20+ million building programme and will have excellent, purpose-built accommodation with state of the art specialist equipment and facilities in September 2022. We are the newest school in the Osborne Co-operative Academies Trust which comprises of 12 schools.

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