Safeguarding Officer

Trinity Academy, Bristol, BS7 9BY

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  30 November 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  14 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37.5 hours Term Time Only plus 10 days (times and weeks to be negotiated)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,394 - £38,279 +£2,000 ( Actual £29,028 - £34,296 +£2,000)
• Pay scale: SCP 26 - 32

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a highly motivated, caring and professional individual to oversee the student facing management of Safeguarding from January 2026. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join an outstanding and highly committed safeguarding and pastoral team. Working with individual students with high needs as well as taking strategic oversight of student safeguarding.

You will have a passion to see young people safeguarded to enable them to flourish. You will have gained this through your career either by working in education or with young people. You will be self-motivated but also able to work in a team. Ultimately, you must care deeply about young people, especially those who are disadvantaged.

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information.

What the school offers its staff

• Continuing Professional and Leadership development

• An employee assistance programme, offering counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas

• Access to discounted gym membership, the cycle-to-work scheme, and eyesight test vouchers

• Onsite parking or easy access via public transport or onsite parking

• Flexible working, fully supported, and enhanced family-friendly policies

• Automatic enrolment for the Teacher’s Pension or LGPS Avon Pension Fund

If you join us, you benefit from being part of a school that:

• places a strong emphasis on reading

• has outstanding facilities, including a new, well-stocked library and budget for more purchases

• has an exceptionally visible and supportive senior leadership team

• has hardworking staff and students who want to do well

• is supporting students to make progress that is significantly above the national average (P8 +0.53)

• is a ‘Good’ school with ‘Outstanding’ leadership and management and ‘Outstanding‘ Personal Development’, according to Ofsted in Jan 2024, who also said:

• “This is an ambitious school that wants the very best for its pupils, both academically and pastorally”.

• “Its curriculum is highly ambitious for all pupils”

• “Lessons are not disrupted by poor behaviour. The school is calm and orderly because pupils understand the rules and routines in place.”

• is a music specialist school with an emphasis on the performing arts

• is a school that develops its people

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.

How to apply

We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment. If you are excited about this role and can demonstrate many, but not all of the requirements on the job description and/or person specification, we would still encourage you to apply as you may just be the person we are looking for.

• Please complete our application form by Midnight on Sunday 30th November 2025

• Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview on Wednesday 10th December at Trinity Academy

• All candidates will be advised of the outcome of their application following the closing date

• We reserve the right to appoint before the deadline for an exceptional candidate.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Cathedral Schools Trust are subject to pre-employment checks incl, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

The safeguarding responsibilities of the post include:

• Ability to ensure and deliver effective safeguarding

• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.

The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. The post is subject to satisfactory completion of all vetting checks including the provision of two strong references and an enhanced DBS check.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Safeguarding Officer Job Description and Person Specification Sept 25.docx.pdf - 273 KB (opens in new tab)

CST Recruitment information pack - July 2024 (lowres) (2) (1) (2) (1).pdf - 234 KB (opens in new tab)

About Trinity Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 946 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Trinity Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@trinityacademybristol.org
• Phone number: 0117 4509379
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/trinity-academy-bristol

Trinity Academy is a highly oversubscribed free school that opened in 2019. We are a values based community that focuses on the learning of all students and staff, that cares deeply for our young people and each other and that is committed to co-curricular enrichment. Our stated goal is to be a +1 school for progress and as such, we are looking for a highly motivated, professional and well qualified teacher and leader to join us in our mission.

Why choose Trinity Academy?

Consistent behaviour and expectations allow you to focus on the craft and science of teaching
Weekly coaching for all staff and weekly department co planning
Exceptionally visible and supportive senior leadership team
Hardworking staff and students who want to do well
Schemes of work fully resourced and ready

Arranging a visit to Trinity Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@trinityacademybristol.org.

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