Safeguarding Officer
Fortis Academy, Birmingham, West Midlands, B44 8NUThis job expired on 3 October 2022 – see similar jobs
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
3 October 2022 at 9am
Date listed
23 September 2022
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Full time Permanent - 29.5 hrs, Term-time plus 2 weeks (5 of these days are inset days). Part time Permanent - 29.5 hrs, Term-time plus 2 weeks (5 of these days are inset days)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- SET Grade 7 SCP 24 – SCP 28, £23,953 - £27,515 pro rata Actual Salary £16,804 - £19,303
Actual salary
- Actual Salary £16,804 - £19,303
Safeguarding Officer job summary
We wish to appoint a Safeguarding Officer who will be responsible for the wellbeing the pupils within Fortis Academy as part of an experienced and supportive team We are looking for someone who has experience of working in the education sector, is highly organised and has excellent communications skills. You will need to be proficient in the use of IT/data systems with the ability to work to tight deadlines.
Previous experience in the role would be advantageous. If you are ambitious, fully committed to our six non-negotiables of a Can-Do Attitude; High Expectations; Altruism; No Excuses; Compassion and Empathy, we would love to hear from you. Fortis Academy 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. Successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks. We are an Equal Opportunities employer. This is a fabulous opportunity to join Fortis Academy, a school within the Shaw Education Trust. Please visit our main school website to gain further information about the school. An Executive Leadership Team steeped in school leadership and improvement experience leads the Trust: www.shaw-education.org.uk. They are committed to the continued professional development of all members of staff and the sustained successful performance of all its academies.
The Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your employment: • An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff) • Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (28 days holiday rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service + Paid Bank Holidays)- (Support Staff Only) • Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health • Cycle to work scheme • Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Fortis Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1339 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Fortis Academy website
- Email address
- a.darkes@fortis.shaw-education.org.uk
Great Barr Academy is sponsored by Shaw Education Trust. We are based in north Birmingham and have a large, diverse and vibrant community of students. We have a well-established and very successful Sixth Form.
We pride ourselves on our strong ethos which values inclusion, good citizenship, mutual respect and collaboration. We aim to provide a wide range of stimulating opportunities to expand our students’ horizons within an environment in which they feel safe and well cared for and in which they can achieve their best, develop self-confidence and flourish as individuals. We encourage the active participation of parents/carers in their children’s education; only when the school, the child and parents/carers are working together will children excel.
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