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Safeguarding & Attendance Manager

Thrive Education Partnership, Birmingham, B2 5QJ

This job expired on 4 November 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  4 November 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  7 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £50,512.00 - £56,326.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Grade 6 points 42 – 46, Plus pending pay award

Safeguarding & Attendance Manager job summary

Main Responsibilities

Attendance

• Effectively analyse absence and persistent absence rates for all pupils, and for different groups.
• Work with schools to develop a clear strategy to improve attendance that focuses on the causes of absence.
• Ensure that records of attendance, including the use of codes, are consistently accurate across all schools.
• Ensure that pupils being absent from education for prolonged periods and/or on repeat occasions is treated as a vital warning sign to a range of safeguarding issues.
• Develop and maintain a strong knowledge of key DfE safeguarding and attendance guidance for schools, as well as the broader knowledge required to be impactful in the role.
• Ensure school staff receive training on attendance.

Safeguarding

• Support and promote the safeguarding and welfare of all children and young people attending trust schools, working closely with DSLs and DDSLs.
• Monitor schools' recording of safeguarding concerns and actions taken to keep pupils safe and support their wellbeing. Ensure that those responsible for safeguarding in schools are consistently following the trust's Safeguarding Procedures.
• Provide DSLs and DDSLs with high quality content for staff safeguarding training, updates and briefings and deliver some training in partnership with school leaders.
• In partnership with the Director of Education, identify any trust wide improvements to safeguarding and attendance policy, procedure and practice and support with enhancement.
• Support schools with the assessment process for providing early help and statutory intervention, including acquiring knowledge of local criteria for action and local authority children’s social care referral arrangements.
• Produce and implement the Trust Safeguarding Strategy.
• Conduct annual Safeguarding audits for all academies.
• Develop a Safeguarding CPD programme for Governors & Trustees.
• Keep up to date with all changes in legislation pertaining to safeguarding policy and practice.
• Ensure that the trust and schools are compliant with all the statutory requirements and receive appropriate advice and guidance relating to safeguarding practices.
• Support designated safeguarding leads when they make referrals to appropriate external agencies.

In addition:

• The post holder will be expected to operate in line with our values and vision.
• The post holder will report to the Director of Education. In the event that post hold has a concern about the leadership of safeguarding in a school, they should swiftly report this to the Director of Education.
• The Safeguarding and Attendance Manager will adhere to all trust policies and procedures. However, they are required to have particularly strong knowledge of the polices most relevant to the post, such as The Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy.
• Thrive Education Partnership (TEP) currently works with six Specialist Schools across the West Midlands; three in Coventry, one in Birmingham, one in Warwickshire and one in Walsall. The post holder will need to visit schools regularly as well as hold remote meetings. Travel costs will be reimbursed in full and the post holder will be provided office space within the Central Team Offices in Birmingham City Centre.

Equalities

• Support the Trust’s policies on equality and diversity in order to ensure equality of opportunity and practice in all aspects of the Trust’s work, including compliance with legislation and good practice.

The above-mentioned duties are neither exclusive nor exhaustive, duties and responsibilities of the post may change as requirements and circumstances change. The post holder will be required to carry out duties as requested by management that are broadly within the level of the post.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

The person specification describes the skills, knowledge and experience required to carry out the job and will also be used in the shortlisting and interview processes.

Experience, Skills and Abilities

Essential

General

• Passionate about making a positive difference to the lives of pupils through strengthening safeguarding and attendance.
• Critical thinking, strategic planning, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong organisational, verbal and written skills with the ability to form good working relationships with a range of internal and external colleagues.
• Experience of a role in school, or across several schools, promoting safeguarding and/or improving attendance.

Attendance

• A commitment to a culture of ‘listen, understand, empathise and support, but do not tolerate’ when working with pupils and their families to improve attendance.
• A recognition that the context of school attendance has changed because of the pandemic. Possess the ability to navigate this context successfully.
• The ability to effectively analyse absence and persistent absence rates for all pupils, and for different groups. A clear strategy that takes account of those causes is needed to improve attendance.
• The ability to identify inaccurate register codes and work with school leaders, teachers and administration staff to ensure registers are consistently accurate.
• The ability to understand and help school leaders overcome the range of factors that may affect attendance, including bullying and behaviour.

Safeguarding

• Understand the additional risks that children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) face, and have the capability to support schools to mitigate risks to pupils with SEND.
• Ability to identify risks associated with online safety and support schools to keep children safe online.
• Ability to support Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) and Deputy DSLs with staff training, so that all staff (especially new and part-time staff) have the knowledge and understanding that they need.
• Ability to effectively monitor records of safeguarding concerns to ensure the right action is being taken to protect children and young people.
• Ability to drive improvement in the school leaders’ response to safeguarding concerns and the records of pupils’ welfare.

Essential

• A good knowledge of key attendance guidance for schools, including Working together to improve school attendance.
• A good knowledge of key safeguarding publications such as Keeping children safe in education 2024 and Working together to safeguard children.
• A good knowledge of achieving a strong safeguarding and/or attendance culture in special schools or an interest and willingness to learn.
• Knowledge that pupils being absent from education for prolonged periods and/or on repeat occasions can act as a vital warning sign to a range of safeguarding issues including neglect, child sexual and child criminal exploitation - particularly county lines
• A good knowledge of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), confidentiality, and safe working practices.

Desirable:

• Given our Academies use or are in the process of implementing CPOMS, experience of CPOMS is desirable but not essential
  

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.

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About Thrive Education Partnership

• Type: Multi-academy trust
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