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  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    30 November 2021 at 4pm

  • Date listed

    25 November 2021

Important

This teaching role is at more than one school in the trust. You can find out more in schools overview.

Job details

Job role

  • Headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher
  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£44,450 (SCP 40) to £51,261 (SCP 46) p.a. dependent on experience

Safeguarding & Family Liaison Lead job summary

Are you ready for a new challenge?

Do you want to work in interesting and varied schools within a forward-thinking Academy Trust?

We are seeking to appoint a positive, determined and pastorally centred professional to be a safeguarding expert for our schools in Essex, Thurrock and Suffolk. As a Safeguarding & Family Liaison Lead you will be working as part of the national safeguarding team and be the first point of contact when issues arise for our schools in your area.

You will be:
• Experienced in safeguarding and have been a lead in education, early years or youth provision,
• Excellent and engaging in your communication to different groups of people.
• A people person with the ability to build relationships with school colleagues, professional partners, children, parents/carers and the wider community,
• Knowledgeable about best practice in safeguarding, able to quality assure safeguarding mechanisms and hold schools to account,
• Able to identify strengths and weaknesses in practice, and create and monitor support plans to achieve improvement,
• Able to work sympathetically and sensitively with all those affected by issues of safeguarding,
• Understanding of the needs of children and young people, particularly those with complex emotional, social or medical needs and behavioural difficulties,
• Able and willing to travel around your region as required, and occasionally across the Trust, to work in and with REAch2 schools.

We can offer:
• A varied and rewarding role where you make a difference every day,
• The benefits of being part of the forward-thinking REAch2 Academy Trust - one of the most successful primary Trusts in the country,
• A wide range of professional development opportunities and the opportunity to work with some of the best educational professionals in the country,
• A flexible work location (home based, with daily visits to different schools)
• Very competitive salary,
• Membership of the generous LGPS pension scheme,
• 28 days’ paid holiday (rising to 31 days after 5 years’ service).
As part of REAch2 employee benefits we also offer an eye care scheme, access to an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your immediate family and membership to ‘perks at work’.

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.

This job post has expired.

About the schools

Type
Multi-academy trust
Phone number
01283 246433

About REAch2:

REAch2 is the largest primary only Academy Trust, unswerving in its ambition to raise attainment and achieve excellence for all pupils. We are committed to enabling individual schools to flourish with a high degree of autonomy whilst benefiting from a strong culture of support and collaboration.

REAch2 is a cornerstone of sixty academies: a strong, responsible foundation providing a solid base, from which every academy can build and grow. Defined by the values of excellence, quality, delivery and standards – these features give the Trust its enduring attributes and its inherent reliability.

We believe that the quality of our staff sets us apart. This is an exciting time of growth to the Trust in our mission to provide ‘Exceptional Opportunities for Learning’ for over 23,000 children.

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