Safeguarding Manager

St Thomas More Catholic Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 2NJ

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As Soon As Possible

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  28 November 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: £37,663.00 Annually (Actual)

Safeguarding Manager job summary

Safeguarding Manager

Salary Scale: Level 10 (SCP 28-31)

Starting salary: £37,663 (FTE: £39,152)

37 hours per week

Term Time + Inset + 4 weeks

(8.30am-4.30pm Monday-Thursday; 8.30am-4pm Friday with 30-minute lunch break)

We are seeking a highly qualified and experienced individual to join our team as the Safeguarding Manager and one of our Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads. The successful candidate will play a critical role in taking responsibility for safeguarding and child protection, supporting staff to carry out their safeguarding duties and liaising closely with children’s social care and other services.

St Thomas More Catholic Academy is an 11-18 mixed Catholic comprehensive school with 1143 students on roll which has an excellent reputation throughout the area.

The post is for 37 hours per week during term time plus INSET + 4 weeks.

Applications are warmly welcomed from all denominations.

Closing Date: 9:00am on 12th December 2025

Interviews are scheduled to take place w/c 17th December 2025

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). All appointments made are also subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance and Right to Work in the UK.

STM Catholic Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education and the Prevent Duty

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Positions are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointments will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). All appointments made are also subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance and Right to Work in the UK.

Applying for the job

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

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About St Thomas More Catholic Academy

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1119 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Thomas More Catholic Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-thomas-more-catholic-academy

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