Safeguarding and Welfare Officer

The Sullivan Centre, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU3 3EL

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBC

• Closing date

  12 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  29 April 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: £27,532.39 Annually (Actual)

Safeguarding and Welfare Officer job summary

As a crucial member of our team, the successful candidate will play a pivotal role in providing effective support and management for students facing safeguarding concerns. This position requires a skilled individual who can confidently and compassionately address these challenges, ensuring the safety and success of each student in their educational journey. Safeguarding and Welfare Officer Lead will collaborate with staff, parents, carers, and support networks to create a comprehensive support system. If you have the experience, dedication, and commitment to making a positive impact in the lives of students, we encourage you to apply. Join us in fostering a safe and nurturing environment where every student can thrive and complete their course of study successfully

The service encompasses:

The Sullivan Centre, classroom-based tuition (co located at Venn Boulevard Centre);

Hospital Schoolroom (located at Hull Royal Infirmary);

Home Tuition Service providing an Outreach education and support service to pupils/schools.

Inpatient Schoolroom (located at Inspire, the region’s new CAMHS (Children’s & Adolescent Mental Health service) inpatient facility)

The successful candidate will have:

Motivation to work with vulnerable children and young people

A secure knowledge of emotional and social issues which may impact on a child’s learning

A good understanding of Behaviour Management methods including the role of the facilitator

A full clean driving license and the use of their own car for work.

We can offer you:

A proactive, dedicated and ambitious leadership team

An opportunity to make a difference

A supportive Trust Board

It is essential that the successful candidate must drive and have a car.

Venn Academy Trust is committed to achieving fairness and equality in employment and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Our Trust is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.

Safeguarding Statement

Venn Academy Trust is committed to achieving fairness and equality in employment and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Our Trust is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.

Online searches will be carried out as part of Venn Academy Trust’s recruitment due diligence for all shortlisted candidates, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About The Sullivan Centre

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 27 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Sullivan Centre website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-sullivan-centre

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