Safeguarding Officer
Lyndon School, Solihull, West Midlands, B92 8EJ
7 days remaining to apply
Expected start date
1 September 2022
Application deadline
6 July 2022 at 12:00pm
Date listed
22 June 2022
Job details
Working pattern
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- 20 hours per week, term time, Monday – Friday 10 am – 2pm
Contract type
- Permanent
Salary
- Band D (FTE £22,129- £30,984). Actual salary is £10,208 - £14,294. The point of the scale will be assessed dependent on experience and qualifications.
Safeguarding Officer job summary
We require a motivated and experienced Safeguarding Officer who is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all of our students. The role involves contributing to the development of safeguarding and child protection policies, training, procedures and guidance across the school, and assisting in the coordination of referrals, actions and the review of services for vulnerable children and families.
To carry out this role, it is essential that you have demonstrable experience of working effectively with vulnerable children or young people in either education, social work, youth work or another related area of work. The successful candidate will also be able to demonstrate they work effectively with the parents/carers of children and work efficiently with a range of professionals to promote children’s/young people’s learning or welfare. In return, we offer an exciting and challenging role within a very supportive team and the opportunity to develop your skills within this innovative and growing Trust.
For a full description of the role and person specification, please see the accompanying documents.
About the Trust
https://www.summitlearningtrust.org.uk/
Why work for us?
The Trust offers:
• A strong focus on staff care and wellbeing
• High quality training and support in and across academies
• A clear career pathway
• Employee assistance programme
• Employee discount schemes
Applying for the job
For an application form and further information about all our vacancies please visit the trust website: http://www.summitlearningtrust.org.uk/category/nat-vacancies/
The closing date is midday on Wednesday 6th July 2022 and it is expected that interviews will be shortly after.
More on how to apply (opens in a new tab)Supporting documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Lyndon School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1142 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Lyndon School website (opens in a new tab)
- Contact email
- recruitment@summitlearningtrust.org.uk
- Contact phone number
- 01217433402
Join Lyndon School a ‘happy, friendly and caring place. Leaders are ambitious in their expectations. They want the very best for their school community. Pupils enjoy positive relationships with caring staff…. Leaders have designed an ambitious curriculum. In many subjects this sets out the important things that pupils need to know and remember. A rich set of experiences are returning, following the earlier challenges of the pandemic.’ (OfSTED 2022).
Lyndon is part of Summit Learning Trust comprising Lyndon itself, Ninestiles – An Academy, Cockshut Hill School four primary schools and Solihull Sixth Form College. The leadership team of Lyndon is progressive and has the vision, drive and support to lead the school on a journey of excellence, with staff that have a passion for teaching and learning. Join us and you will be part of a school on its journey to outstanding status with a strong team ethos. We believe in working collaboratively, sharing ideas and supporting each other to achieve great things.
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