Safeguarding Officer
Deer Park School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2HTThis job expired on 1 November 2024 – see similar jobs
Closing date
1 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
18 October 2024
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
- £25,628.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Annual Salary £21,981.00
Safeguarding Officer job summary
37 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 8:00am to 4:00pm and 8.15am to 3.45pm Friday, term time only (39 Weeks). Grade D – Step 1 FTE £25,628, Actual Annual Salary £21,981.00.
We are part of the RAISE Educational Trust which comprises of Wildern School, Deer Park Secondary School and Boorley Park Primary School. Our staff form a collective team that make a difference to the lives of our students. This is an exciting time for the trust and all colleagues present and future.
We are looking to appoint a dynamic, caring and supportive professional who will oversee the day to day operational running of the safeguarding systems and procedures here at school.
We take safeguarding extremely seriously and have a really inclusive whole school approach to safeguarding our entire community. This role will see the right person liaising with the pastoral teams, teaching staff and wider community to ensure all of our students are cared for under the direct leadership of the Assistant Headteacher (pastoral) and Designated Safeguard Lead (DSL).
The person we are looking for will have an awareness of safeguarding roles and responsibilities, be up to date and informed of local and national safeguarding developments, have working knowledge of KCSIE and Working Together to Safeguard Children and other national documentation relevant to the safeguarding of school children. They will be able to liaise with outside agencies to report, monitor and work alongside our families.
The role will involve:
- Receiving and responding to safeguarding concerns raised in school
- Recording safeguarding concerns on our CPOMs system
- Ensuring that CPOMs is kept up to date, and current.
- Attend Child Protection and Child in Need meetings, core group meetings and Early Help Hub meetings for our students and families
- Prepare reports for CP/CIN meetings
- Prepare reports for SLT and the Local Academy Committee around safeguarding
- Liaise closely with our Heads of Year on safeguarding themes and issues in their year group
- Work with students who are safeguarding concerns to support them in school.
- Liaise with parents and carers where there are concerns, including ongoing contact over time
- Liaise with the Attendance team where there are students missing education.
We are excited about this position as it will add to our incredible pastoral team at Deer Park and help us to continue to provide an exceptional level of support and care.
If you currently work in a school, please ensure one of your references is from your current Headteacher.
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may invite candidates to interview before the closing date. Closing Date: Midday Friday 1st November 2024.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we receive applications that meet the criteria. Once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
RAISE Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Further information about the job
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.
About Deer Park School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 697 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Deer Park School website
Deer Park School is a new seven-form entry secondary school which opened in September 2021 initially with four forms of Year 7 and growing to full capacity of seven forms of entry over the next seven years.
We are part of the Wildern Academy Trust which comprises of Wildern School, Deer Park Secondary School and Boorley Park Primary School.
This is an exciting time for the trust and all colleagues joining us.
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