Safeguarding Officer
North Durham Academy, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 0TWThis job expired on 13 November 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
December 2024
Closing date
13 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 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
- £25,800.00 - £28,470.00 Annually (Actual)
Safeguarding Officer job summary
Safeguarding Officer
Grade 4 £25,800 - £28,470
Term time plus one week
North Durham Academy is seeking a committed Safeguarding Officer to support the Headteacher and Head of Student Support (Designated Safeguarding Lead) in implementing effective safeguarding and child protection policies. This vital role serves as the initial contact for safeguarding inquiries, providing essential advice to colleagues and ensuring that all concerns related to the safety and welfare of our students are managed promptly and according to statutory requirements.
As part of your responsibilities, you will work directly with students who wish to make disclosures or are involved in safeguarding investigations, collaborating closely with the Designated Safeguarding Lead to keep them informed on all relevant safeguarding issues. You will also liaise with various external agencies—such as the police, health services, and local authorities—on matters concerning student safety and welfare, including online and digital safety. Engaging positively with parents and carers is essential to foster a supportive and safe environment for students, particularly in challenging family situations.
This role requires strict confidentiality in managing child protection information, adhering to statutory standards for secure storage and appropriate information-sharing protocols. You will assess and clarify safeguarding information, make referrals as needed, consult with management, and interact with child protection services to provide comprehensive case support.
Further responsibilities include overseeing the academy’s CPOMS system, monitoring staff safeguarding training records, and ensuring compliance with statutory and Trust policies. You will stay updated on safeguarding developments through regular training, sharing relevant insights with staff and volunteers. The role also includes pastoral support for students, coordinating Year 7 transitions with primary schools, and preparing detailed reports for safeguarding meetings as needed.
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 19 November at North Durham Academy.
Applications close on Wednesday, 13 November. For further information regarding this role, please contact Deborah Menear, Head of Student Support (DSL) at D.Menear@ndacademy.co.uk.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Connect Multi-Academy Trust is legally obligated to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before making appointments to relevant posts. The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and bind-overs as well as pending prosecutions, which aren't 'protected' under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and check to establish that a person is not barred from 'regulated activity' as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.
About North Durham Academy
- School type
- Academies, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 976 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- North Durham Academy website
Connect Multi-Academy Trust is an ambitious Multi Academy Trust based in North Durham. The trust currently has 3 large secondary schools and 5 primary schools.
Our schools are at the heart of their local communities and strive to deliver on our founding principles of Inclusion, Progression and Excellence which supports a central vision of ‘Students First’.
The principle of inclusion provides opportunities for students of all abilities, aspirations and backgrounds and involving staff, governors, students and the wider community in determining the direction of our Trust. Our curriculums are broad and challenging, with the academic success of students at the heart of what we do.
To encourage progression, our schools provides effective advice and guidance. This enables learners to make informed and appropriate decisions for future study and employment, encouraging them to take on new challenges and reach higher levels of achievement.
The focus on excellence underpins all we do whether in learning areas, working in the community or governing and leading our schools.
The Trust recognises that safeguarding our children and young people is core to all our activities, and we expect all staff, volunteers and wider stakeholders to share this commitment.
Our Aims are:
To ensure our schools are centres of excellence with a focus on the nurture and achievement of all their members;
To promote mutual support, encouragement and benefit between our academies;
To develop, as the core foundation of academic achievement, a strong culture of professional development amongst our staff;
To celebrate and maintain the unique identity of communities we serve with each school at the heart of its community;
To recognise and enable all those who often remain invisible, through ethnic or cultural disadvantage, or through disability or poverty to achieve their full potential.
At North Durham Academy, we are openly focused on the educational outcomes of our students and firmly believe that placing the student at the centre of everything we do will ensure that they leave with both the best possible grades and having had the best possible experiences throughout their time with us.
In order to realise this, we work with our vision in mind at all times:
“For all students and staff to want to learn and work at a good school; and for all parents/carers from our community to want to send their children to a good school.”
There are a number of key principles that underpin the vision, which are:
Outstanding care for each and every individual
A relentless drive and focus to ensure that each and every student achieves their true potential
A focus on the quality of education and on high standards
A broad and balanced curriculum
A range of in-school and extra-curricular experiences to prepare our students for life in modern society
Superb facilities which support and enhance learning at all levels including achievement and engagement
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