Safeguarding Officer

Lift Bexleyheath, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA6 7DA

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  29 September 2026 at 10:12am

• Date listed

  15 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £33609 - £35109 per annum

Safeguarding Officer job summary

About the role

The Safeguarding Officer plays a vital role in ensuring the safety, welfare, and protection of all students at Lift Bexleyheath. Reporting to the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), you will manage live concerns, deliver pastoral support, collaborate with external agencies, and maintain robust record-keeping.

Key responsibilities

• Safeguarding & Pastoral Support: Implement safeguarding procedures, respond to daily live concerns, design targeted student interventions, and offer pastoral care and guidance to vulnerable students, including those with SEND or EHCPs.

• Record Management: Maintain precise, up-to-date child protection records on safeguarding systems and monitor staff compliance with annual safeguarding training.

• Stakeholder & Multi-Agency Collaboration: Build supportive relationships with parents/carers and work alongside local authority children's social care, police, and health services, including attending inter-agency case meetings.

• Staff Training & Guidance: Ensure all academy staff and volunteers understand child protection policies, supporting them whenever safeguarding concerns are raised

What we're looking for

• Experience: Experience working with children and interacting with external agencies to make formal referrals.

• Knowledge & Skills: Strong understanding of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), restorative practice techniques, and the ability to advise staff on safeguarding strategies.

• Key Attributes: Exceptional communication skills, proactive problem-solving under pressure, empathy, high discretion/confidentiality, and a clear commitment to child welfare and equality.

You are someone who has:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to form strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate effectively with staff, students, parents and external agencies.
• Capability to anticipate issues and act on them in a proactive manner.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage conflicting demands upon time.

About Lift Bexleyheath:

Lift Bexleyheath is a welcoming and ambitious secondary school with a strong community ethos and a clear focus on continuous improvement.

Located just 30 minutes from central London, we're investing in our future, including a brand-new sixth form centre and improved learning environments. You'll be joining a committed team with high expectations and a shared determination to provide an excellent education for every student.

Who is Lift Schools?

We're a diverse and inclusive network of schools with one clear mission; to provide an excellent education to every child - in every classroom, every day. And we do this across each of our 62 schools. As with our students, we want our team to be empowered to do their best work, supported by the best leadership they've ever had.

We acknowledge and appreciate the exceptional efforts of everyone here in making this an incredible organisation.

We offer you:

• Comprehensive training: Access a wide range of developmental training to boost your career.
• Generous benefits: From your pension plan to healthcare and financial support, we've got you covered.
• Lifestyle perks: Enjoy discounted gym memberships and travel deals

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

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

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 Lift Bexleyheath

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1474 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Lift Bexleyheath website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bexleyheath-academy

Lift Bexleyheath is part of Lift Schools, one of five schools in the London Region serving over 5000 pupils. We have a well-established reputation and are proud to be a non-selective school in the grammar heartland of Kent. We have excellent attainment and progress outcomes and will stop at nothing to ensure our students have the very best opportunities.

Our core mission has always been to close the educational gap between young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers. Our ambition is one where every student in the school, no matter their background, has equal access to high quality education, giving them the same opportunities and potential to succeed.

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