Safeguarding Lead

Lees Brook Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 4QX

8 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  26 September 2025

• Closing date

  5 September 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  28 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: From £34,314.00 - £37,938.00 Per Annum (FTE)

What skills and experience we're looking for

SAFEGUARDING LEAD

• Maintain clear vision, purpose and high expectations as set by line manager
• Inspire, motivate, and influence staff to reach the highest standards for safeguarding
• Be an excellent role model for all staff and pupils and be visible, supportive, and professionally challenging
• Maintain a prominent visible presence as part of the Safeguarding Team
• Working with external agencies and professionals on matters of safety and safeguarding
• Raising awareness of safeguarding and child protection amongst the staff and parents; and ensuring that child protection information is transferred to the pupil’s new school/academy
• Supporting the DSL in ensuring all staff receive the appropriate training, and keep it up to date, in line with advice from local safeguarding partners
• Notifying the Children’s Social Care department if there are concerns over unexplained absences of a pupil following the Child Missing Education (CME) policy and local procedure.
• Informing the Local Authority when a private fostering arrangement is in place
• Ensuring that important safeguarding related policies are kept relevant and up to date
• Ensuring there are procedures in place to handle allegations against other children (Child-on-child abuse)
• Creating a culture of listening to children and taking account of their wishes and feelings, both in individual decisions and in the academy’s development
• Where staff feel able to raise concerns and feel supported in their safeguarding role
• Ensuring all records are kept up to date and secure and kept separately from the main pupil file in a locked location
• Ensure that appropriate online filtering and monitoring systems are effective and communicated with parents/carers.
• Ensure all safeguarding needs of all pupils are met and managed in the most appropriate and supportive way,
• Have wellbeing oversight of vulnerable pupils
• Remove any barriers to learning, ensuring a happy and stable academy life for pupils
• Enable pupils to make healthy and safe lifestyle choices, recognising and avoiding unnecessary risk.
• Support DSL with the management of CPOMS systems and monitor and check all ‘actions’ are timely, appropriate, and robust.
• Ensure all safeguarding is identified in a timely manner and managed effectively and appropriately.
• Act as a champion of the academy’s child protection policy and procedures by ensuring all staff have access to and understand them.
• Support the SLT to induct new members of staff regarding the academy’s safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibility to challenge behaviour which breaches the Guidance for Safer Working Practice (Code of Conduct).
• Recognise how to identify signs of abuse and when to make a referral.
• Respond appropriately to disclosures or concerns relating to the well-being of a child.
• Refer allegations or cases of suspected abuse to the relevant investigating agencies, ensuring they have access to the most relevant up to date information.
• Ensure that relevant, detailed, and accurate written records of referrals/concerns are kept and that these are stored securely.
• When pupils move academy, ensure their safeguarding file is sent to the new establishment immediately and securely
• Support the DSL and TSL as the main point of contact for external agencies – Police/ CAMHS/ CSC Channel
• Maintain professional standards and relationships with external agencies
• Ensure that pupils who are victims of abuse are supported appropriately and sensitively and that all actions from planning and intervention meetings are carried out and monitored.
• Ensure appropriate attendance and effective and appropriate contribution to Child in Need meetings, Child Protection conferences, planning and review meetings, including those taking place out of normal working hours.
• To work as part of a team that liaises with colleagues and outside organisations to provide Early Help as soon as a problem emerges, at any point in a child or young person’s life, working with the

POLICY AND PROCEDURE

REPORTING CONCERNS

MULTI AGENCY WORKING

Early Help Strategic Partnerships and referring to the Early Help Allocation groups where necessary.

TRAINING

• Support the DSL to ensure all staff have safeguarding induction on their first day and receive frequent updates so that they are able to recognise and report any concerns immediately.
• Attend relevant training every two years and keep up to date through additional updates and research.

What the school offers its staff

• Archway benefits to include shopping discounts and competitions
• A free and confidential employee assistance programme offering counselling and advice
• Access to a generous pension scheme
• Access to discounted travel schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Comprehensive training and support
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• Eye care voucher scheme
• Free flu vaccine
• Access to e-learning and development

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to the satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check, Barred List check, the receipt of satisfactory references, online searches and any other statutory checks that are required for the post. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Applying for the job

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CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Lees Brook Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1101 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lees Brook Academy website
• Email address: hr@archwaytrust.co.uk
• Phone number: 01332 671723
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lees-brook-community-school-derby

Lees Brook Community School is committed to working with pupils and their parents to enable each youngster to achieve success in all areas of life – academic, personal, physical, social;Raising standards of achievement, increasing access and widening participation in PE and Sport for everyone in our school, partner schools, wider community and Derby City;Changing the culture for learning in our community by raising self-esteem, recognising achievement, promoting pride within the local area and providing pathways for talented performers;Building a community for learning in which everyone (pupils, parents, staff, governors, and the wider community) sees learning as a life-long process for them to engage in.

At Lees Brook, we believe how we learn is as important as what we learn and the kind of person we each become matters as much as what we achieve. Each of us is responsible for our actions and our behaviour; each one of us has a right to feel safe, secure and free from bullying in school; each one of us has a right to learn and achieve at the highest level we are capable of. The way in which we deal with other people matters, so we should always treat other people as we would wish to be treated and we learn from our mistakes as well as our successes.

Lees Brook is a school that cares for the people within it. We have a uniquely inclusive school which allows everyone to succeed. Our safe, successful and positive learning community ensures that every student is able to fulfil their potential; but more than that, to also become well rounded young people who will go on and thrive in the world of work.

Mrs Z House - Headteacher

Arranging a visit to Lees Brook Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@archwaytrust.co.uk.

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